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Growing Leaders Who are Confident, Skilled and Human-Centered (Mistakes to Avoid)

Let's Grow Leaders

Instead of saying: “You need to get better at critical thinking.” Using vague language and unclear feedback When you use vague language you leave room for your team to fill in what’s missing, and it might not reflect what you’re actually trying to convey. ” “You need to be more empathetic.”

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7 Ways to Create a Listening Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Critical thinking? A good social care strategy listen’s beyond the # and the @. If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly make every employee in your organization proficient in one behavior what would that be? Customer-orientation? Listening transforms relationships. Get Social.

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Caution: Critical Thinking Ahead

On The Job

What worried him, he said, was our lack of critical thinking skills that would really impact us in the coming years. How many bosses, he asked me, would think it was OK to see an employee reading a book while on the job? They multitask like crazy, even though it's been shown that's a less productive strategy. del.icio.us.

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How to Get Employees to Care About Your Company

Let's Grow Leaders

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your company’s reputation. Can you imagine what would happen if you could replicate that level of prudence and critical thinking? But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal employees living and breathing your brand.

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Coaching Strategies for Managing Negative Impacts of News and Social Media

International Coach Academy

Significance of the Case Study and Relevance to Coaching: This case study explores strategies to help clients cope with anxiety related to negative news and social media. Coaching can help uncover the underlying emotions and thinking patterns associated with these, and help understand how they affect the well-being of the client.

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Experts Share Their Thoughts on “Spring Cleaning:” A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks says “Spring is a great time to be proactive in renewing your leadership using these 5 strategies. Todd Ordal of Applied Strategy reminds us that Company culture is not something that just happens. ” Follow Bruce. Follow Susan. ” Follow Matt. Follow Todd.

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The Magic Of Critical Thinking: How To Make Better Decisions

StrategyU

That is the world that would exist without critical thinking. Critical thinking is not well understood. People say “you go to school to learn how to think” but show no evidence that this happens. We assume critical thinking happens at work but we can’t explain how we do it.