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Forget your job title for a moment: effective leadership is not about position - it's about perception.
Here are 11 ways to build your reputation as the kind of leader others want to follow.
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
How do the people you admire the most choose to communicate? Words are powerful. Learn how to use them wisely with our latest SlideShare.
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This is the first SlideShare adaption of Timothy E. Johansson's 100 Growth Hacks in 100 Days. The growth hacks that's included in the slide are 1 to 10. Timothy is the front-end developer at UserApp (www.userapp.io).
7 Ways Soft-Skills Power Organizational PerformanceBambooHR
Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills.
But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees.
In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line.
In this slideshare, you will learn:
• Soft skills: What are they anyway?
• Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires
• What the bottomline results are for soft skills
• How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills
10 Shocking Stats About Disengaged EmployeesOfficevibe
Here are 10 shocking stats about employee engagement that our researchers have found. This infographic shows all that's wrong with disengaged employees.
Read more on Officevibe Blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/disengaged-employees-infographic
Download the most comprehensive guide to having engaged employees:
http://officevi.be/employee-engagement-guide
Use these 22 simple ways to boost job satisfaction:
http://officevi.be/job-satisfaction-guide
10 Steps great leaders take when things go wrongGetSmarter
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Most of us avoid taking action because we’re afraid to fail. The truth is, every failure is simply one step closer to success. So, are you counting your failures as stepping-stones to success? These 10 tips will motivate you to approach failure with a fresh perspective.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
How do the people you admire the most choose to communicate? Words are powerful. Learn how to use them wisely with our latest SlideShare.
www.getsmarter.co.za
This is the first SlideShare adaption of Timothy E. Johansson's 100 Growth Hacks in 100 Days. The growth hacks that's included in the slide are 1 to 10. Timothy is the front-end developer at UserApp (www.userapp.io).
7 Ways Soft-Skills Power Organizational PerformanceBambooHR
Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills.
But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees.
In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line.
In this slideshare, you will learn:
• Soft skills: What are they anyway?
• Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires
• What the bottomline results are for soft skills
• How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills
10 Shocking Stats About Disengaged EmployeesOfficevibe
Here are 10 shocking stats about employee engagement that our researchers have found. This infographic shows all that's wrong with disengaged employees.
Read more on Officevibe Blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/disengaged-employees-infographic
Download the most comprehensive guide to having engaged employees:
http://officevi.be/employee-engagement-guide
Use these 22 simple ways to boost job satisfaction:
http://officevi.be/job-satisfaction-guide
10 Steps great leaders take when things go wrongGetSmarter
http://resources.getsmarter.co.za/
Most of us avoid taking action because we’re afraid to fail. The truth is, every failure is simply one step closer to success. So, are you counting your failures as stepping-stones to success? These 10 tips will motivate you to approach failure with a fresh perspective.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
10 Engagement Lessons Learned From 1 Million Survey AnswersD B
Officevibe released a research report called The State of Employee Engagement based on 1,200,000 survey answers from employees in 157 countries. After analyzing the data, we discovered some truly shocking statistics about the state of engagement across the world.
This actionable webinar will show you how you can keep your employees happy and productive.
See the recording of the webinar:
http://bit.ly/2gjJg3o
Get all the free bonuses and extra tips:
http://bit.ly/2g7Q3xM
Content by Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
10 Practical Ways to Be More Efficient at WorkWeekdone.com
Efficiency has always been an ongoing process that you will keep fine tuning for the rest of your life. However, when it comes down to being efficient at work, there are whole industries coming up with solutions. We at Weekdone gathered the 10 best ways to be more efficient at work that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you more efficient at work.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/how-to-build-the-perfect-team-nancy-butler/ - Having the right people in place is essential to accomplishing your goals and building your business. Follow these tips from Nancy Butler, business coach and award-winning author of Above All Else, to assemble the perfect high-performing team.
Best practice management process for OKR rollout: company-wide OKR examples.
We created this guided course on the OKR best practices to make your OKR rollout smooth and successful. This course includes learnings and insights that we uncovered together with our customers over the past 8 years.
It is perfect for leaders, team managers, and OKR champions who are looking for practical resources to improve their team’s workflows.
90% of our customers who have been very successful with OKRs said that early-stage learning is the foundation of a sustainable OKR process.
These are the companies that report incredible growth and performance improvement.
In this course, you will learn:
how to align the company with OKRs
how to write engaging OKRs that work
the difference between KRs and Initiatives
the difference between OKRs and KPIs
how to facilitate teamwork and discussions
and more…
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
Fight for Yourself: How to Sell Your Ideas and Crush PresentationsDigital Surgeons
Don't let your blood, sweat, and pixels be overlooked, great creative doesn't sell itself.
Every presentation is a story, an opportunity to sell not just your work, but what people actually buy — YOU.
This presentation will walk viewers through three core aspects of winning at any presentation, Confidence, Comprehension, and Conviction.
These concepts, central to your work as a creative professional, are backed by science and bolstered by thoughts from some of the world’s leading creative professionals.
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
Building a successful leadership development program requires that you first identify common mistakes that can impede your program's success. Here are four particular missteps to look out for.
11 Stats You Didn’t Know About Employee RecognitionOfficevibe
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
Officevibe put together some incredible statistics about employee recognition.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/employee-recognition-infographic
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
Follow us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/officevibe
Help Young Talent Develop a Professional MindsetDaniel Goleman
There is a chasm between what business leaders expect from recent graduates, and what these new hires offer. In a Hay Group study of 450 business leaders and 450 recent graduates based in India, the US, and China… a massive 76% of business leaders reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
In most cases, these hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have proven their ability to accomplish the work. They’re committed and passionate about rising through the ranks. So what are these new professionals missing?
They’re lacking soft skills.
10 Ways Your Boss Kills Employee MotivationOfficevibe
It’s so hard to have engaged employees. It’s such a delicate thing to try and get right because employees can be fragile.
As a manager, you have to do everything in your power to make sure employees are happy and engaged at all times.
Usually, the problem is the boss, and not things like the company, mission statement, or co-workers.
If you know that your boss is the biggest problem, there are ten things that they do to kill motivation. If you’re a manager and you’re reading this, make sure you avoid these mistakes to ensure that your employees are engaged during work.
The secret to good leadership is to be authentic. Be honest with your staff.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/10-kill-employee-motivation
like us on Facebook!:
www.facebook.com/officevibe
We held the largest ever Virtual SlideShare Summit a week back, if you missed it here's your chance to hear from the experts once more on some of the takeaways on presentation design and SlideShare Marketing
11 Scary Statistics About Stress At WorkOfficevibe
Stress is a silent killer. There’s plenty of research on the subject that shows that too much stress can have traumatizing health effects.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/infographic-stress-at-work
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
As the war for top talent is at an all-time high, our need for capable teammates to lighten our load has hit the "yesterday is too late" warning level, and our own desire to get much more out of our career trajectories is somewhere between red and white-hot, a simple question is rarely answered correctly: what are we to do to find the right people and to stand out ourselves?
While the traditional resume has been enhanced by better design techniques (infographics! Presi! personal websites!) and smartly maintained social presences, these mediums can (still) be too easily manipulated in the applicant's favor—just like that supposedly objective reference call that gets made in the final stages of most hiring decisions.
The answer to finding the right talent and / or positioning ourselves better therefore can't be digital, analog, or even external. Rather, it comes down to one simple thing truth: professional excellence. Either you have it, or you need to work hard to achieve it.
This presentation contains practical, next-level tips to help you become the best version of your professional self (for job seekers) and help you better vett talent (for job hirers). Come away armed with the tactics you need to grow and nurture your skills, deliver world class work product, earn trust and respect, successfully collaborate, and generally take your game up a notch so you advance your career.
10 Engagement Lessons Learned From 1 Million Survey AnswersD B
Officevibe released a research report called The State of Employee Engagement based on 1,200,000 survey answers from employees in 157 countries. After analyzing the data, we discovered some truly shocking statistics about the state of engagement across the world.
This actionable webinar will show you how you can keep your employees happy and productive.
See the recording of the webinar:
http://bit.ly/2gjJg3o
Get all the free bonuses and extra tips:
http://bit.ly/2g7Q3xM
Content by Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
10 Practical Ways to Be More Efficient at WorkWeekdone.com
Efficiency has always been an ongoing process that you will keep fine tuning for the rest of your life. However, when it comes down to being efficient at work, there are whole industries coming up with solutions. We at Weekdone gathered the 10 best ways to be more efficient at work that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you more efficient at work.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/how-to-build-the-perfect-team-nancy-butler/ - Having the right people in place is essential to accomplishing your goals and building your business. Follow these tips from Nancy Butler, business coach and award-winning author of Above All Else, to assemble the perfect high-performing team.
Best practice management process for OKR rollout: company-wide OKR examples.
We created this guided course on the OKR best practices to make your OKR rollout smooth and successful. This course includes learnings and insights that we uncovered together with our customers over the past 8 years.
It is perfect for leaders, team managers, and OKR champions who are looking for practical resources to improve their team’s workflows.
90% of our customers who have been very successful with OKRs said that early-stage learning is the foundation of a sustainable OKR process.
These are the companies that report incredible growth and performance improvement.
In this course, you will learn:
how to align the company with OKRs
how to write engaging OKRs that work
the difference between KRs and Initiatives
the difference between OKRs and KPIs
how to facilitate teamwork and discussions
and more…
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
Fight for Yourself: How to Sell Your Ideas and Crush PresentationsDigital Surgeons
Don't let your blood, sweat, and pixels be overlooked, great creative doesn't sell itself.
Every presentation is a story, an opportunity to sell not just your work, but what people actually buy — YOU.
This presentation will walk viewers through three core aspects of winning at any presentation, Confidence, Comprehension, and Conviction.
These concepts, central to your work as a creative professional, are backed by science and bolstered by thoughts from some of the world’s leading creative professionals.
Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
Building a successful leadership development program requires that you first identify common mistakes that can impede your program's success. Here are four particular missteps to look out for.
11 Stats You Didn’t Know About Employee RecognitionOfficevibe
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
Officevibe put together some incredible statistics about employee recognition.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/employee-recognition-infographic
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
Follow us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/officevibe
Help Young Talent Develop a Professional MindsetDaniel Goleman
There is a chasm between what business leaders expect from recent graduates, and what these new hires offer. In a Hay Group study of 450 business leaders and 450 recent graduates based in India, the US, and China… a massive 76% of business leaders reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
In most cases, these hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have proven their ability to accomplish the work. They’re committed and passionate about rising through the ranks. So what are these new professionals missing?
They’re lacking soft skills.
10 Ways Your Boss Kills Employee MotivationOfficevibe
It’s so hard to have engaged employees. It’s such a delicate thing to try and get right because employees can be fragile.
As a manager, you have to do everything in your power to make sure employees are happy and engaged at all times.
Usually, the problem is the boss, and not things like the company, mission statement, or co-workers.
If you know that your boss is the biggest problem, there are ten things that they do to kill motivation. If you’re a manager and you’re reading this, make sure you avoid these mistakes to ensure that your employees are engaged during work.
The secret to good leadership is to be authentic. Be honest with your staff.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/10-kill-employee-motivation
like us on Facebook!:
www.facebook.com/officevibe
We held the largest ever Virtual SlideShare Summit a week back, if you missed it here's your chance to hear from the experts once more on some of the takeaways on presentation design and SlideShare Marketing
11 Scary Statistics About Stress At WorkOfficevibe
Stress is a silent killer. There’s plenty of research on the subject that shows that too much stress can have traumatizing health effects.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/infographic-stress-at-work
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
As the war for top talent is at an all-time high, our need for capable teammates to lighten our load has hit the "yesterday is too late" warning level, and our own desire to get much more out of our career trajectories is somewhere between red and white-hot, a simple question is rarely answered correctly: what are we to do to find the right people and to stand out ourselves?
While the traditional resume has been enhanced by better design techniques (infographics! Presi! personal websites!) and smartly maintained social presences, these mediums can (still) be too easily manipulated in the applicant's favor—just like that supposedly objective reference call that gets made in the final stages of most hiring decisions.
The answer to finding the right talent and / or positioning ourselves better therefore can't be digital, analog, or even external. Rather, it comes down to one simple thing truth: professional excellence. Either you have it, or you need to work hard to achieve it.
This presentation contains practical, next-level tips to help you become the best version of your professional self (for job seekers) and help you better vett talent (for job hirers). Come away armed with the tactics you need to grow and nurture your skills, deliver world class work product, earn trust and respect, successfully collaborate, and generally take your game up a notch so you advance your career.
Navigating Your Career in Cyber Security - Steve Santini & Drew FearsonChristopher Clark
Veteran cybersecurity executive Steve Santini, Founding Partner and Managing Director at Cyber Intersections Group and host Drew Fearson, Chief Operating Officer at NinjaJobs discuss how to steer your career, get noticed as a problem solver, and develop your skills and network in this 60-minute webinar, "Navigating Career Change"
Joe Tye Presentation for Georgia Hospital Association Trustee Conference, Feb...Joe Tye
Slides used by Values Coach CEO Joe Tye in his presentation for the annual Trustee Conference of the Georgia Hospital Association, including questions trustees should ask about the values and culture of their hospitals.
All of us want to be high potential, yet few of us have any idea how. Read on if you want ideas to help you chart your journey through your organization. And if you like it--please share it!
Our Founder, Roy Larson spoke on the topic of "Bringing out the Best in People" and how this can increase production, and efficiency in your jobs. Our consultants apply this to their relationships with developers, stakeholders, clients, etc. to be a catalyst in projects and your organizations everyday performance.
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This paper will discuss effective ways of motivating teams to realize the intended goals. I will also analyze different motivators for teams and which one is effective in making employees motivated. It will higlight situations where each is used and which is widely used in business today. Many business leaders have realized that it is difficult to achieve organizational goals without motivation and are therefore applying them.
Making team excited
As indicated by Kouzes and Posner (2007), administration is about connections and eventually about impact. Pioneers of solid authoritative groups fancying impact through relationship will learn and create great relational abilities. "Correspondence is to an association what the circulatory system is to an individual" (Hellriegel, Jackson, & Slocum, 2008). Montebello (1994), recommends four components of compelling correspondence: advertise sincere talk, test for data, listen for data, and present your data and thoughts. Correspondence, as per Roodt (2005), "is an element procedure including a nonstop two-path stream of data.” As per modern therapist Anthony Montebello (1994), "All groups have periodic correspondence breakdowns. The following are ways of motivation:
1.Talk about the profits of achievement. In the event that you need your group to be inspired, then you need to clarify the positive results of attaining the target. By consolidating this group persuading step, you are putting the control over their future recompense or different prizes into their hands. Your group ought to perceive how their prosperity would profit the organization, as well as every individual ally. In the event that you truly need to rouse them, then you need to make your objectives as cement as would be prudent so they can feel an unmistakable prize.
• for illustration, saying "We need to work harder so the organization looks better" won't persuade representatives to the extent that idiom, "On the off chance that we enhance our deals by 10%, then we'll make enough income to give out Christmas rewards in the not so distant future."
• considering Alderfer's hypothesis, which has been ended up being more viable in observational examination (Schneider and Alderfer, 1973), fulfilling the between individual regard needs won't make them less persuading for the representative and consequently the group pioneer can give immaterial remunerates whenever the individual merits it to keep them persuaded.
2.Keep your group intrigued. Manufacture a feeling of interest inside your allies' outlooks so that they are intrigued enough to need to attain the objectives you anticipate. By doing this, your allies will need to take in more. This might be attained on the off chance that you comprehend what energizes or engages your allies. Get to comprehend what mat ...
The Secret Thing That Is Holding You Back In Your Nonprofit Career Bloomerang
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Mazarine Treyz will talk about exactly how to build trust and make your fundraising office even more effective.
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How to Use Colour to Influence Productivity and PerceptionGetSmarter
Angela Wright, a renowned colour psychologist, proposed that colour’s effect on us goes beyond sight alone, and reaches to the intricacies of our psychology.
It’s the first thing humanity instinctively looks to for the information we need, to know how to respond to anything that confronts us.
Think about a stop sign, for example, or a set of traffic lights. What colour comes to mind? What action does it drive you to do?
Between the science of photons and wavelengths, electrical impulses and the hypothalamus, lies a common bottom line: colour profoundly affects your behaviour.
How are you using colour to influence behaviour?
4 ways to watch what you say as a leaderGetSmarter
Have you ever walked away from talking to a colleague with the feeling that what you had to say was valued?
Here are a 4 simple yet effective habits you can implement into your daily conversations, to have a positive impact on those around you.
4 ways to watch what you say as a leader new animated_slideshareGetSmarter
Have you ever walked away from talking to a colleague with the feeling that what you had to say was valued?
Here are a number of simple yet effective habits you can implement into your daily conversations, to have a positive impact on those around you.
Is it time to transform your career? Successfully navigating a career change requires preparation and planning. We've put together 10 steps to help you give your career a much-needed makeover. View this slideshare for advice on how to get started and, when you're ready, visit www.getsmarter.co.za.
This comprehensive program covers essential aspects of performance marketing, growth strategies, and tactics, such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, and more
Want to move your career forward? Looking to build your leadership skills while helping others learn, grow, and improve their skills? Seeking someone who can guide you in achieving these goals?
You can accomplish this through a mentoring partnership. Learn more about the PMISSC Mentoring Program, where you’ll discover the incredible benefits of becoming a mentor or mentee. This program is designed to foster professional growth, enhance skills, and build a strong network within the project management community. Whether you're looking to share your expertise or seeking guidance to advance your career, the PMI Mentoring Program offers valuable opportunities for personal and professional development.
Watch this to learn:
* Overview of the PMISSC Mentoring Program: Mission, vision, and objectives.
* Benefits for Volunteer Mentors: Professional development, networking, personal satisfaction, and recognition.
* Advantages for Mentees: Career advancement, skill development, networking, and confidence building.
* Program Structure and Expectations: Mentor-mentee matching process, program phases, and time commitment.
* Success Stories and Testimonials: Inspiring examples from past participants.
* How to Get Involved: Steps to participate and resources available for support throughout the program.
Learn how you can make a difference in the project management community and take the next step in your professional journey.
About Hector Del Castillo
Hector is VP of Professional Development at the PMI Silver Spring Chapter, and CEO of Bold PM. He's a mid-market growth product executive and changemaker. He works with mid-market product-driven software executives to solve their biggest growth problems. He scales product growth, optimizes ops and builds loyal customers. He has reduced customer churn 33%, and boosted sales 47% for clients. He makes a significant impact by building and launching world-changing AI-powered products. If you're looking for an engaging and inspiring speaker to spark creativity and innovation within your organization, set up an appointment to discuss your specific needs and identify a suitable topic to inspire your audience at your next corporate conference, symposium, executive summit, or planning retreat.
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For event details, visit pmissc.org.
New Explore Careers and College Majors 2024.pdfDr. Mary Askew
Explore Careers and College Majors is a new online, interactive, self-guided career, major and college planning system.
The career system works on all devices!
For more Information, go to https://bit.ly/3SW5w8W
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but valuable - problem or pain point you can
address that’ll benefit your team.
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8. Quick: take a look around.
Whose opinion matters most?
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9. Quick: take a look around.
Whose opinion matters most?
Identify the power-players who are integral to change in your workplace. Then,
build a relationship: support their success by offering to help out on a project
they’re heading up, or solve a problem they’re facing.
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12. People forget
the things you
say, but they’ll
always remember
the way you made
them feel.
The 3 most powerful
emotions you can conjure up
during interactions with your team?
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13. People forget
the things you
say, but they’ll
always remember
the way you made
them feel.
The 3 most powerful
emotions you can conjure up
during interactions with your team?
Happiness, power, and aspiration.
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14. Ready to prime your colleagues
to perceive you as a leader?
3
15. Ready to prime your colleagues
to perceive you as a leader?
Try one of these 3 simple psychological priming exercises:
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16. 3
1 When you need to
put a positive spin on a
sticky situation: get
your listener “primed”
for happiness by asking
about a highlight
from their weekend.
17. 3
1 When you need to
put a positive spin on a
sticky situation: get
your listener “primed”
for happiness by asking
about a highlight
from their weekend.
2 If you’re looking to
foster a greater sense
accountability in your
team: start the
conversation by recalling
an instance in which
your colleague/s felt
powerful - a recent
presentation, an award,
or promotion.
18. 3
1 When you need to
put a positive spin on a
sticky situation: get
your listener “primed”
for happiness by asking
about a highlight
from their weekend.
2 If you’re looking to
foster a greater sense
accountability in your
team: start the
conversation by recalling
an instance in which
your colleague/s felt
powerful - a recent
presentation, an award,
or promotion.
3 If you need a
proactive solution to a
current challenge: prime
your colleagues for an
aspirational mindset by
asking about their goals
or vision for the future.
22. 4
People respect
people who
respect themselves.
How assertive are you when it
comes to making decisions?
Next time you’re faced with a tricky
situation, weigh up feedback fairly,
but don’t be too easily waived.
26. 5
Effective leaders
don’t hesitate to
act in the face
of change.
And rigid personalities hinder progress.
Work to be flexible, fluid and
adaptable in support of strategic
objectives and big-picture growth.
29. 6
Remember: leaders are people
who demonstrate desirable
characteristics.
Often, those traits involve: authenticity in applauding the work
of teammates, honesty in admitting their own skills gaps, and
selflessness in sharing credit.
32. When you
freely share
business- related
information
and resources,
you empower those around you
to own their role in achieving
organisational goals.
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33. When you
freely share
business- related
information
and resources,
you empower those around you
to own their role in achieving
organisational goals.
You’ll build more meaningful relationships,
and be perceived as a team player who puts the
organisation’s best interests before your own.
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37. Get people
interacting.
Teams only achieve extraordinary
things when they have a healthy
sense of mutual dependence.
Look for opportunities to encourage
collaboration at work and, in the process,
grow your team’s ability to look to one
another for support when times get tough.
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40. As millennials
start dominating
the leadership space
over the next decade,
a new style of leadership will emerge: one
that is less autocratic, and more focused on
proactive self-management, supported by
mentorship and coaching.
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41. 9
Dedicate at least 15 minutes of every hour you spend
on any particular task to learning about the best way to do it.
42. 9
Dedicate at least 15 minutes of every hour you spend
on any particular task to learning about the best way to do it.
Inspire your colleagues to greatness by demonstrating your own
sustained commitment to learning, unlearning, and relearning whatever
it takes for you to stay relevant and add value.
44. In his first 5 years
at the helm of
General Electric,
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45. In his first 5 years
at the helm of
General Electric,
Jack Welch cut in 118,000 people from
the payroll. At the same time, he spent
millions on what he called “unproductive” things -
like building a gym, and upgrading Crotonville, GE’s
management and leadership training institute.
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46. In his first 5 years
at the helm of
General Electric,
Jack Welch cut in 118,000 people from
the payroll. At the same time, he spent
millions on what he called “unproductive” things -
like building a gym, and upgrading Crotonville, GE’s
management and leadership training institute.
By the late 1980s, all of GE’s key productivity
metrics were up - significantly.
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51. 10
The lesson?
Making tough calls in the short-term
Maintaining clarity of long-term vision
A thriving organisational culture in which people understand that
true leadership is the ability to lead while being led.
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54. Shared values
are the foundation
of genuine and
rewarding working
relationships.
Whether yours or your organisation’s,
the values you choose to honour in
your workplace serve to:
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55. Shared values
are the foundation
of genuine and
rewarding working
relationships.
Whether yours or your organisation’s,
the values you choose to honour in
your workplace serve to:
1 inspire those around you,
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56. Shared values
are the foundation
of genuine and
rewarding working
relationships.
Whether yours or your organisation’s,
the values you choose to honour in
your workplace serve to:
1 inspire those around you,
2 keep you accountable, and
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57. Shared values
are the foundation
of genuine and
rewarding working
relationships.
Whether yours or your organisation’s,
the values you choose to honour in
your workplace serve to:
1 inspire those around you,
2 keep you accountable, and
3 reinforce productive behaviour.
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58. Shared values
are the foundation
of genuine and
rewarding working
relationships.
Whether yours or your organisation’s,
the values you choose to honour in
your workplace serve to:
1 inspire those around you,
2 keep you accountable, and
3 reinforce productive behaviour.
All of which are characteristics that make any
strong leader worth following. 11
60. To sum up?
If we’ve learned anything from
watching Game of Thrones, it’s that
power resides where men believe
it resides.
61. To sum up?
If we’ve learned anything from
watching Game of Thrones, it’s that
power resides where men believe
it resides.
So, “Leader” isn’t
really a title.
68. Your capacity for leadership expands
in direct proportion to your
commitment to lifelong learning.
69. Your capacity for leadership expands
in direct proportion to your
commitment to lifelong learning.
Register for a career-advancing online short course from the University of Cape Town today.
70. Your capacity for leadership expands
in direct proportion to your
commitment to lifelong learning.
Register for a career-advancing online short course from the University of Cape Town today.
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