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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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Scaling Change

Brimstone Consulting

Further, because these leaders did not have the leadership skills needed to engage others to drive results, the Vice President’s own leadership, energy, and ability to scale and drive engagement were hindered. The Vice President had previously participated in a cross-functional leadership development program for senior leaders.

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4 Strategic Growth Obstacles to Overcome as You Scale

LSA Global

One of the best ways to sabotage growth is to have so many competing strategic priorities and initiatives that it is almost impossible to devote enough time, energy, and focus to get them right. Distraction and bandwidth may be the most underestimated strategic growth obstacles for most leadership teams. The Bottom Line.

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Interview with Pat Kramer CEO of BDO Canada On Future Of Work

Cheryl Cran

The other part of my philosophy is that leadership requires a balance of collaboration and emotional intelligence and effective decision making. As leaders we need to collaborate and understand our people and what they are about which is where emotional intelligence is a valuable tool.

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The Mental Benefits of Vacationing Somewhere New

Harvard Business

The result is personal growth — greater emotional agility, empathy, and creativity. The first benefit is enhanced emotional agility , or the ability to not react immediately to emotions, but to observe those that arise, carefully collect information to understand the possible causes, then intentionally decide how to manage them.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business

Throughout the workday, it’s important to pay attention to the peaks and valleys of energy and productivity that we all experience, what health psychologists call our ultradian (hourly) as opposed to our circadian (daily) rhythms. Develop mental agility.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Yet study after study, including my own , tells us the qualities that leaders in today’s world need are intuitive, dynamic, collaborative, and grounded in here-and-now emotional intelligence. The mismatch between leadership development as it exists and what leaders actually need is enormous and widening. What would work better?