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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking. Self-Awareness Strategy #1: Leadership Assessment A 360 leadership assessment is a type of multi-rater instrument that collects feedback from multiple directions relative to the leader's position within an organization.

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News or Noise

Tom Spencer

The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Sydney Morning Herald. The Wall Street Journal, the FT or The Economist. We each have a choice about how we spend our time. Are you filling your time with noise, or making an effort to create a story all of your own? There are many titles to choose from.

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5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination

Harvard Business

To answer these questions, I spoke to researchers, and spent time digging through dozens of academic journal articles. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. How can we overcome it, preferably without hating ourselves or the techniques we use in the process? Why we procrastinate. Srini Pillay.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. Having strategies for making quicker decisions can help too.

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Stop Putting Off Fun for After You Finish All Your Work

Harvard Business

Our findings were published in the journal Psychological Science. The most effective strategy for shedding our biases is to go through an experience ourselves. Go have some fun (perhaps a quick trip to the spa) with some work left undone. Pay attention to where your attention is in the moment and how work feels once you return to it.

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business

Or maybe you want to build a daily practice (like journaling) but can’t to commit to a specific time each day. Maybe you want to start eating a high-protein snack mid-morning, or promote your latest blog posts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as soon as they get published.