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Your responsibility is to become a leader who is a visionary. Turning smart ideas into action requires a sound strategy and transparent, data-rich decision-making coupled with resolute authenticity. It comes down to your clarity. You must command it. Bringing joy to your work helps as well.

Leadership Questions to Ask Yourself

1. Am I confident with my current state at work? Do I even know where I want to take my future?
2. Am I able to clearly articulate a coherent strategy, communicating why and when goals need to be accomplished?
3. Do I
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You’re not as interesting as you think.

If you’re long-winded, the people around you wish you were short-winded.

Talk less. Succeed more.

5 Reasons people talk too much:

1. Thinking. Extroverts think while they talk. (If you want your team to think, make space for them to talk.)
2. Silence drives you crazy. It only takes 4 seconds for silence to feel awkward.
3. You have power or position.
4. Insecurity.
5. To convince people you’re right.

7 Dangers of talking too much:

1. Lost credibility. You earn respect with your ears and lose it with your
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The calendar has turned, the challenge is on. Let us begin a season of gratitude.

Each day, highlight someone for whom you are grateful. Share your thanks with a story, a note, a laugh or something memorable. Take this month and let the folks in your world know that they are woven into your tapestry.

Be creative, make some new memories, share some old laughs.

To my Human Resources colleagues: who on your teams deserves your gratitude?  Who needs a reminder of their unique value to your team?  Who needs a good laugh...

As I’ve often said here, the workplace is a microcosm of society. And just like we don’t know what the lasting effects of this pandemic will be on all of us, we also don’t know the long term effects on the workforce. But there are some things we do know for sure already, and it’s that the pandemic has certainly affected our collective mental health. Depending on whether your health, your family, your finances or your environment has been affected, no one has been spared some mental hardship.

I came...