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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? Of course, it’s important to consider skills. In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy.

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Leadership Pro Tip: Embrace a Curious Mindset

Associations Now

Leadership in many ways is built around making important decisions, and if you’re making the same types of decisions over and over, your leadership style might struggle as a result. The post Leadership Pro Tip: Embrace a Curious Mindset appeared first on Associations Now. But one way to fix that? An extra dose of curiosity.

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Does Your Leadership Style Need a Change?

Associations Now

A report on some new leadership research out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business ends on a sobering note. The implication is that the culture needs improvement, and O’Reilly points to some notable examples of companies that have had dysfunctional, narcissistic leadership, like Theranos and Uber.

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Do You Energize Your Team?

Association Leaders

One of them is called Leadership Freak, written by Dan Rockwell. Today Leadership Freak had an interesting post about what leaders do to energize (and sometimes de-energize) their teams. What kinds of things can leaders do to ignite fires in their team and keep those fires burning? I read several business related blogs.

Team 150
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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth Kanter

Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership. Empathetic leadership, to us, is about seeing through the eyes of others. Therefore, we need to recognize and respect this dynamic as we lead and support our teams.

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Sharing is a Critical Leadership Trait

Association Leaders

Of course, there are some traits shared by most, if not all, successful leaders such as, honesty, focus and commitment. There are other leadership traits that we commonly think of when we think of great leaders such as communication, selflessness and humility. One leadership trait we don’t talk about enough is sharing.

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Leadership Lessons from the Military

Association Leaders

Being in the association business, we often see professional speakers who talk about management, change, people, leadership, and more. Each step is critical to the success of the “mission” It all starts of course with planning. This is where we get the rest of the team involved and bought into the plan.