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5 Ways to Identify and Avoid Toxic Positivity

Leadership Freak

When work is a positive experience, someone labored to make it happen. But toxic positivity corrodes organizations. Make positive experiences a daily practice, but toxic positivity is destructive. Here are 5 ways to spot toxic positivity. The kettle on the stove is always whistling.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). Insufficient awareness, especially of pressures that impinge on the key people who need to think, feel, and act in order for the positive outcome to be achieved, can lead to ineffective or counterproductive influence attempts. Low awareness.

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Developing a Positive Culture

Lead Change Blog

Last month we had the opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Marcella Bremer to talk about her work in developing a positive culture in the workplace, her new book, Developing a Positive Culture , and the Positive Culture Academy (classes start April 2nd). What drove you to start the Positive Culture Academy?

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15 Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders

Leading Blog

W HEN YOU HEAR the term positive leadership , it is easy to get cynical and think it is all happy-talk and disconnected from reality. The kind of positive energy that most accounts for flourishing in individuals and in organizations is called relational energy.” There are 15 attributes associated with positively energizing leaders: 1.

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7 Ways to Manage a Talent Shortage

Between the rapid rollout of vaccines, the financial stimulus, and increasingly positive jobs reports, hiring is on the rise. Modernize the way you develop talent. But it also means your business needs to hire and retain talented people in a highly competitive market. Become a company known for learning & training.

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quickpoint: Responsibility Develops Power

Leading Blog

I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Responsibility is a great power developer. People who are never thrust into responsible positions never develop their real strength. Give power so that others may grow.

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Crafting Leadership Excellence: The N2Growth Approach to Executive Development

N2Growth Blog

The best leaders can influence their team’s behavior and work ethics, promoting a positive atmosphere that encourages productivity and innovation. Defining Executive Development in the Context of N2Growth Building and transforming leadership capabilities are principal elements of organizational growth.

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