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Forbes
When hiring for a leadership role, you may be overlooking one of the most important traits of top performers: humility. Sounds a bit counter-intuitive, doesn't it? Humility is not typically the first trait that comes to mind when you think about great business leaders like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or Bill Gates.
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Harvard Business Review
Every leader wants to avoid major strategic mistakes, but in a complex world, it's hard to anticipate all the forces that might impact your goal. It's vital to find weaknesses in your strategies before you implement them — and developing a rigorous process to do so. The ability to poke holes in one's own strategies is something the U.S. military has practiced and refined over centuries.
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Lolly Daskal
Anyone who has been in a leadership position for more than a day has made a mistake. Mistakes come with being human. Fortunately, they rarely do lasting damage, and even the worst mistakes don't have to tarnish your reputation as a leader. Here are some powerful suggestions for things you can do to recover after a serious mistake.
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Envisage Technologies
You’ve done a lot: between your training, field experience, and those few close calls, how will you keep track of it all? FirstForward.com is a free online account where you can record all of your professional credentials, experiences, and exposures.
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Entrepreneur
Feedback, in whatever form, can have a positive impact on any working professional, helping them assess what they are doing right or where there is room for improvement. Criticism or negative feedback in particular is quite valuable as it can lead to increased performance, productivity and overall effectiveness, when implemented correctly.
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By Lisa Mulcahy
 It's a familiar scene: you explain the general outline of a project to your team — but no one takes the immediate initiative to contribute fresh ideas to the plan. If your employees routinely seem to hesitate when it comes to jumping into a new task, it's probably not a lack of motivation — it's most likely because they don't know how proactive you really want them to be.
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Great Leadership by Dan
Above all other qualities, vision is the most essential to extraordinary leadership. Throughout every era of time, and in in every imaginable industry, the most influential leaders have been those who innately understand that what has been in the past, as well as the circumstances that exist in the present, do not have the power to limit the potential of what can be created in the future.
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Lexipol
When a family member or patient lashes out, a common call can instantly turn violent. Does your department have a policy on tactical withdrawal? Are you practicing it? Gordon Graham has some advice in this short video. VIEW THE VIDEO
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Michael Hyatt
"Tell me about a time you worked with a team." It is a common interview question, one many of us have heard before. A flood of past teams may have come cascading into your brain. There is the team where you had to the do all the work, and the team where you couldn't get a word in edgewise. The team meetings that devolved into useless monologues and those that ended in smiles and fits of laughter.
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Lencore Acoustics Corp.
The Sound Masking Industry has seen double digit growth as modern workspaces become the norm and productivity a top concern for employers. Sound Masking works by introducing an ambient background sound into the environment to “cover” unwanted sound, rendering speech unintelligible. But what happens when an emergency communication is sent out? Will your employees be able to understand the message?
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Entrepreneur
If leaders want to be effective, they must earn the trust of those they lead. Developing trust is essential for your team's success and your success as a leader. According to a recent PwC survey of more than 1,400 CEOs worldwide, 55 percent of respondents believe a lack of trust is a serious threat to the success of their teams and their business.
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