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7 Ways Overconfidence is Sabotoging Your Career

Let's Grow Leaders

Lather, rinse, repeat is not a leadership strategy. Leadership is never handled. Never take your career path for granted. You move quickly, not stopping to consider that this situation or team is different. You Stop Learning. Lots of reasons for this. See these 60 reasons. You Stop Asking For Feedback. Never stop asking.

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Internal Internships- A Winning Well Best Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

The senior leadership team had sent me to this location to understand what was going so right– and to help them spread it to their other locations. Exponentially more discussion around career pathing– even for those who didn’t decide to intern. Benefits of Internal Internship.

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Why Non-Linear Career Paths Are The Future

Forbes Careers

As we face an ever-changing job market, non-linear career paths are becoming the new normal. Here are some reasons why.

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Does Marissa Mayer’s Choice Limit Yours?

Let's Grow Leaders

Not that I’m planning for children but there very well could be a number of young women who are on the fast track to executive leadership, yet also desire to have a family. If you’re a parent-leader and have not downloaded my free Parent’s Leadership, I offer more perspective. Here’s a little postcard.

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How to Increase your Visibility at Work

Career Advancement

In every career path, there’s a level at which leadership skills and visibility play a much stronger role in promotions than job skills. They will have key project updates and talking points to share at the leadership team meetings. You’ll never get ahead at work by lurking in the shadows.

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

Unlocking Employee Motivation: The Secret to a Thriving Workplace (00:00) The Journey Begins : Start your journey with a profound realization from Andre Martin: every decision nudges you towards or away from your ideal career. Reflect on what drives you—company, craft, or cause—to navigate your path wisely. (00:29)

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Why Job Descriptions are a Dying Art

Let's Grow Leaders

” Once the lawyers got involved, the higher job was eliminated, and the career path disappeared, and really great people were disappointed, and stopped trying. I was devastated to see good people with hopes of moving up crushed by the instruction to do less, because some artificial boundaries said that would help.