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Three Reasons Do-It-Yourself Leadership Development is a Bad Business Decision
It seems like a good idea to use your existing senior staff to develop and conduct leadership training for mid and up-and-coming engineer managers. After all, you're already paying them and they have proven leadership skills. Why not use them to train others? They may...
Exhausted After a Day of Zoom Calls? Four Tips to Manage Your Energy in a Virtual Environment
https://youtu.be/dDPJ82KKvKo Exhausted after a Day of Zoom Calls? Four Tips to Manage Your Energy in a Virtual Environment Meeting after meeting after virtual meeting. It's exhausting. Have you noticed that meeting online all day is more exhausting than if you were...
Public Agency Managers: Now’s Not the Time to Cut Professional Development! Here’s How to Make the Case.
Use This Checklist to Evaluate Your Program! (agency) Trust is the currency of public agencies. You need trust to work effectively with elected leaders, to successfully argue for your agency’s funding, and to build relationships with citizens who pass judgment on your...
Now’s Not the Time to Cut Professional Development for Your Technical Managers!
Use This Checklist to Evaluate Your Program! Your staff is working and serving clients because your organization provides an "essential" function. That's great...for now. But you foresee a future with tighter revenue, constrained travel, and stressed clients. When...
Don’t Be Boring and Forgettable. Use this Checklist to Up Your Game Now!
In case you haven't noticed by now, an effective webinar isn't simply a regular presence on a screen. Webinars should be designed differently...well if you want them to be impactful. Particularly now with everyone participating in webinars, yours can stand above the...
Email is More Important Than Ever. Learn Four Tips to Make Your Emails More Effective
Photo credit: Aleksandr Davydov This is the fourth newsletter based on the Over-Thinkers Guide to Working at Home Effectively. You can find the original guide here. Each week, we've written more information on one of the topics in the guide. This week's virtual work...
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Why “Power Through It” Doesn’t Work & How to Reset Your Brain
Photo by Paul Green on Unsplash "Power through it" is quick advice for hard or tedious work tasks. Our CEO Shelley Row breaks down the diminishing return of determination and how to reset your brain for more productivity. Expectation vs Reality “Noooooo…..Not another...
Emotionless Leadership Hinders Effectiveness … Do This Instead
In leadership positions it’s inevitable that situations arise and provoke emotional reactions. Some emotions are low grade but others are like five-alarm fires. We are taught to suppress our emotions in the workplace in order to be seen as credible, strong and...
Kindness at Work Pays Off: Now’s the Time
Improve your team with these tips for thoughtful management Kindness is natural but it isn't always easy. Use these management techniques for kindness to improve your team's morale and performance. Every day it was the same. As the postal carrier approached Rose...
Life Hack: Steal these 7 Habits of Visionary Leaders
What’s your leadership philosophy? On paper, it seems easy to say you’re committed to fairness, profitability and something to do with sustainability. The workday, however, can feel like an unending battle between long-range vision and a stacked to-do list. When we...
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