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Narrow Your Niche to Win More Work as a Solopreneur

Successful Independent Consulting

Working within the intersection between these disciplines, Jack emphasizes leadership development, inter-cultural business communication, employee engagement, and customer focus. Here are three exercises to get you started. Exercise #1: Reflection. Exercise #2: Study Your Work History. What is his sweet spot?

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Practice Congruence to Create an Effective Culture

Johanna Rothman

Angry, Dan fires two people: The person who made the bad deployment and that person's manager. Dan fires that person and the manager, too. Who wants to work somewhere where the senior management fires you for making a mistake—especially when you're overworked and tired? However, blaming doesn't create an effective culture.

Culture 100
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LSA Global Adds New Frontline Manager Assessment Center

LSA Global

Schedule Assessment New or transitioning new managers receive an email with a scheduling link to select a session that works for them. The post LSA Global Adds New Frontline Manager Assessment Center appeared first on LSA Global. The system then automatically schedules behavioral psychologists who will be assessing each participant.

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Safe Space #8 – what can a manager do about racism at work?

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. This time, the issue comes from a manager with a thorny issue: supporting a colleague who has been treated badly but doesn’t want to make a complaint. What is the issue? What should I do?

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Job Hub: TOMS Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

———— History & Culture. They care for their employees well; an entire department is dedicated to enhancing company culture and experience. Company culture promotes an interactive workplace, where team members are free to collaborate and partner together on projects within each department.

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The Blame-Oriented Corporate Culture

CaseInterview.com

In many company cultures (and in many family, marriage or parent/child relationship cultures), the first order of business is to decide whom to blame. Third, having blame be a part of the culture engenders fear. I firmly believe a solutions-oriented corporate culture outperforms the "blame first" culture in the long run.

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Leadership Tip 16: Decide When to Choose Power-With or Power-Over

Johanna Rothman

We exercise our personal power (power within) in many ways: when we decide where to live, what to wear, and what to eat. When managers decide for other people, the managers exert a form of power-over. Instead, I see a manager deciding how other people or a team should work. All decisions are a form of power.