People Skills

Can you get to the top without playing office politics?

Office politics is as much a part of work as drawing a salary. And yet, I don’t know anyone who wants more of it. In fact, many clients come to me because they feel stymied in their career advancement goals because they perceive “office politics” to be getting in their way. People blame office...

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How to Delegate: 3 Tips for Letting Go Of Control

One of the first leadership and management lessons most of us learn is how to delegate - and battle that old "control" instinct. Why is it first? Because leaders don't scale unless they delegate well and you have to scale if you're going to have a big impact. Andria has some great advice for...

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The Impact of Poor Leadership on Burnout & Job Satisfaction

Burnout is a work-related process of chronic stress and disengagement and has been called the occupational hazard of the 21st century.  The formula for job burnout is simple:  too many job demands, too few job resources, and not enough recovery or time to re-charge your batteries.  Burnout impacts...

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Can Empathy Help You Overcome Bias?

Almost everyone deals with bias, and there are many strategies to deal with it, but we love Dana and Kate’s takes on InPowered strategies for confronting bias with empathy and humility. Enjoy a not-so-obvious-but-very-effective strategy to deal with awkward and unfair situations you find yourself...

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The Role of Dialogue in Performance Reviews

Working in low-income communities, I’ve learned that leadership and management are not only skills that increase productivity, they can and should be empowerment skills as well. Dialogue, in particular, has become my go-to strategy for empowering the people who work for me. When I use it, I...

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Building Your Social, Personal Brand

Please welcome special guest blogger, Heidi Lorenzen, President of Marketing Moksha, who’s turning her extreme marketing knowledge to helping us think about how to use social media to shape your personal brand.  “Social business” is a buzz-phrase increasingly used today to describe the transformed...

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3 Ways Emotional Intelligence Can Cure the Toxic Boss

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the cure for the Toxic Boss. But of course, it’s not quite that easy. S/he’s a boss, after all! Sadly, this cure does not come in the form of pill, either. Toxic bosses are a disease in the workplace and corporate culture more broadly. Like most diseases toxicity has...

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Why is Thought Leadership, “Leadership?”

One of the cool things about modern discussions of leadership is that we now recognize that “leadership” is available to everyone, at every level of every kind of organization – or no organization at all. Anyone can lead and can even start a movement, simply by influencing the person next to them...

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