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February 23, 2021

Episode 23: Are Women Better Leaders Than Men?

Details We’ve all heard the claims, the theories, and the speculation about the ways leadership styles vary between women and men. There are of

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February 18, 2021

Individual Contributors Aren’t Leaders? The Impact of Ignoring Soft Skills

Are the individual contributors in your organization leaders? Are their “hard” skills the only type of useful skills they possess at that level? When

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February 16, 2021

Episode 22: Why Leaders Are Not Improving With Age

Details A long-held belief holds that managers acquire the lion’s share of their management and leadership skills from their on-the-job experience. Is it true

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February 15, 2021

Do Leaders Improve With Age?

A long-held belief holds that managers acquire the lion’s share of their management and leadership skills from their on-the-job experience. In the HR community,

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February 12, 2021

You Can Take It! How To Accept Negative Feedback With Ease

Most people assume that given a choice between receiving positive or negative feedback, the majority would choose positive. To test that assumption, my colleague

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February 9, 2021

Episode 21: Strategic Thinking: The Skill Required For Advancement

Details Many qualified candidates that are ready to be promoted never see it happen. But what if this common problem that leaders experience could

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February 8, 2021

Developing Strategic Thinking Skills: The Pathway to the Top

Developing Your Strategic Thinking Skills It is a tale as old as time: a qualified candidate is ready to be promoted, but it never

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February 3, 2021

Losing Trust: The Impact of One Team Member on Employee Engagement

How Losing Trust Affects Employee Engagement I have spent the last couple of years gathering data about the effect that trust has on leaders,

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February 2, 2021

Episode 20: Should Leaders Aspire to Warmth or Competence?

Do people consider you a warm person? Or do you rely more on your competence than your likability? Which trait matters more? After searching

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February 1, 2021

Warmth or Competence: Which Leadership Quality is More Important?

Should leaders aspire to warmth or competence? Over the years a great deal of research has been done on two traits people often use

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January 26, 2021

Episode 19: The Confidence Gap In Men and Women

Our research shows that as women’s experience increases over time, so does their confidence. But at the beginning of a woman’s career, there is

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