Want to Be a Great Coach? Learn How to Be Patient

As a manager and a leader, how do you find the time to be a coach? With so many demands on your time, finding the space to be a coach too is extremely difficult. Yes, I know you know that it makes sense. The more you invest in your people, the more they can do for...

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If You Want to Learn How to Lead

...first learn what it means! If you are new to leadership or have been a leader for a little while, you can improve your skills by investing some time in developing your own definition of leadership. Of course, there are lots of fine definitions brought to us by...

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Focusing Your Stakeholder Management

Becoming more strategic at managing and influencing your stakeholders requires that you take a structured approach to your work. The first step of the Stakeholder Influence Process requires that you get very clear on exactly what you want to achieve. Step 1 — Focus:...

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How to Protect Your Integrity

Integrity is about behaving consistently with a set of deeply held values and beliefs. Put another way, it means being true to yourself and usually involves a strong moral code relating to the way you interact with and treat other people (and yourself). Integrity...

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Exercise: How to Define Agendas Influencing Your Work

As you begin to identify the people who are most influential around your project, a vital consideration is their agenda. Figuring out what this is might at first sight appear easy; however, going beyond the professional agenda and into the realms of the personal can...

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