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Leadership and Office Politics

N2Growth Blog

This is the time of year when most of us turn our attention to presidential politics, but let us not forget that business is also political – to think otherwise is simply naïve. Office politics exist in every organization without regard for industry, structure, culture or values.

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How to Deal with Political Conflict at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigate political conflict at work with a combination of clarity, connection, and curiosity When you think of talking with people at work who have different political beliefs, your first response might be like that of many people we’ve encountered as we wrote Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict : “Yeah, no.

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5 Steps to Managing Emotions at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

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Leadership Pause with Chris Johnson

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigating the current environmental, economic, and political realities is challenging (yet essential). Find out how a leadership pause can create a deeper connection to self and a clearer vision of the natural leader resting just beneath the surface. This is where The Leadership Pause can help. Leadership Pause.

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Authentic Leadership: 5 Big Mistakes that Can Derail Your Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s about being fully aware of your values, strengths, opportunities, and challenges and leading from that context. We call this emotional splash (more on that here), What to do instead: Be aware of your own emotional state and make deliberate choices of how much to share. Over-Indexing on Self-Deprecation.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

However, in high-stakes situations, our doubts, self-talk, low awareness, ill-preparedness, and instinct-led execution can make or break our attempts. Most endeavors struggle with a number of challenges — technical, social, and political. Low awareness. The more ambitious the project, the greater the obstacles.

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The #1 Leadership Skill for the “Covid19 War” – Inner Peace

Leading Blog

C OVID19 is a health crisis; an economic crisis; a social crisis; a political crisis; and a geopolitical crisis. Leaders will need to bring their “Best Self” to work every day — to bring your Best Self into every meeting and into every conversation. It is a crisis dominated by unknowns and huge downsides.

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