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Control Your Feelings – Don’t Express Them

Leadership Freak

For example, you think someone neglected their responsibilities causing deliverables to fall through the cracks. Image source Emotions are responses to information; believe wrong information and you’ll experience wrong feelings. Based on that, you feel concerned, frustrated, or even angry. Don’t trust those feelings.

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Build the Plane While it’s in the Air

Leadership Freak

Outcomes, deliverables, and noble goals infuse leadership skills and techniques with meaning. [.]. Communication skills are irrelevant apart from meaningful outcomes. Define the future first, then determine and develop the skills that take you there. Leadership skills are best learned when needed.

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How To Take Your Weekly Team Meetings to the Next Level

Lolly Daskal

Assign responsibilities and set deadlines to ensure clarity and commitment on deliverables until the next meeting. Clarify Action Items and Responsibilities: Conclude by summarizing key decisions and action steps.

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Restarting Stalled Projects, Guaranteed

Leadership Freak

Foggy deliverables, inadequate resources, blurred priorities, under qualified participants, and distant deadlines inevitably drain urgency. Every reason projects stall comes back to one, lack of urgency. Who’s responsible: Save time, energy, and resources by settling the question of responsibility for derailed projects, quickly.

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This Email Authentication is Critical for Email Deliverability

Ascend

Email marketing remains a top marketing channel to generate engagement and leads. The hardest part is coming up with the topics, writing the content, and figuring out who to send it to. The last thing you want is for hard-earned marketing emails to get blocked by inbox service providers because of a technicality.

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How to Effectively Shift Your Company Culture Away from Overworking Employees

Lolly Daskal

Trust your employees to manage their time effectively and focus on their deliverables. Implement Flexible Work Arrangements: Rigid work schedules can contribute to overworking and burnout. Introduce flexible work arrangements, such as remote work options or adjustable hours.

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Whether or Not to Fix a Broken Relationship

Ed Batista

As management thinker Peter Drucker once noted, "I have never seen anyone in a job for which he was inadequate who was not slowly being destroyed by the pressure and the strains, and who did not secretly pray for deliverance." [2].