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If you’re looking for your next career move, standing out to hiring managers is the key to getting your foot in the door. However, in a tight job market, a strong résumé alone won’t necessarily bring your application to the top of the pile.
Facts and figures alone aren’t enough to persuade. The most influential leaders understand the power of storytelling—not just as a communication tool but as a mindset that shapes vision and strategy. A storytelling mindset allows leaders to connect emotionally with their teams, customers and stakeholders, making their messages more memorable and impactful. People remember stories up to 22 times more than facts.getty
Employee motivation is critical to performance, engagement, and overall well-being. But many leaders continue to rely on traditional motivation strategies, such as financial incentives, performance-based rewards, employee perks or fear of negative consequences while ignoring a more effective and sustainable approach.
When founders transition to CEOs of growing companies, they often encounter conflicting advice about how to scale effectively. The conventional wisdom, “hire good people and let them do their jobs”, sounds logical, but for many founders, it’s proven disastrous in practice, not least because of how it reduces the act of stewarding an organization into something that can be described in bullet points on Linkedin. getty
Heather Younger, a celebrated workplace culture and employee engagement expert, has written several bestselling books helping people navigate the roads to effectiveness in both their professional and personal lives. Her latest offering is The Art of Self-Leadership: Discover the Power Within You and Learn to Lead Yourself. Pexels
The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for conversations about justice systems, shedding light on some key areas in need of transformation. It particularly highlighted how emerging technologies can play a role in that transformation, with a range of justice impacts and processes necessitating quick action. Getty
Unfortunately, most leadership development literature experiences only focus on one or two of these foundational leadership skill sets, leaving leaders with a partial picture of what is needed of them to succeed in different environments.
However, one unquestionable feature of exceptional leadership is hard to swallow: allowing others to challenge their bosses’ ideas, not just follow them. In fact, Jobs valued people who had the confidence to challenge the status quo and his own ideas. It’s a skill many leaders overlook, but can’t succeed without, according to Jobs. Steve Jobs. Photo: Getty Images
Do you want to build a successful career in business? Then, don’t shy away from failure—it’s an essential part of the journey. It took years of trial and error to realize that successful leaders aren’t defined by perfection but by their ability to learn, adapt and grow from setbacks. getty
As a busy leader or entrepreneur, every day is filled with decisions. Some are small, like what to have for lunch. Others are life-altering, like choosing to pivot your business strategy or pursuing a new opportunity. With so many decisions to make, it’s easy to get overwhelmed or stuck. Enter the 10-10-10 Rule. Photo: Getty Images
