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Delegation is the magic sauce for any organization. It enables new leaders to emerge, promotes sustainability and scalability, builds capacity, and encourages cross-training. To make sure your teams are empowered and set up for success, there are several methods you can use.
Fostering a culture of collaboration is crucial for cultivating robust workplace relationships. Many people could collaborate better with their team, partners, and employees -- they simply lack the intentional focus to do so. I aim to highlight why collaboration is so critical today, and why you should focus on building a culture of collaboration across your organization.
Maximizing personal effectiveness is a crucial skill, but blind spots can often hinder your progress. Beware the impact of your blind spots--they can decrease your effectiveness and damage your work relationships, whether you're a business owner, executive, manager, or frontline worker. The good news is that you can learn how to identify and eliminate these blind spots, for yourself and others.
The fear of public speaking is overrated.
I hate to break it to you, but this fear does not even rank on the top 10 fears in the modern world. This surprised me as well as I researched for this piece. Instead, things like spiders, snakes, dogs, not being good enough, risk, failure, rejection, all rank - but not public speaking. In the modern functioning business world public speaking skills are essential for success for any business leader.
To me, communication is very personal. How we effectively communicate with others matters on many levels. In the end, being an effective communicator is the goal. To outwardly convey a message, that is received as intended, with desired awareness or action taken. In a nutshell, there it is.
Active Listening in the workplace (and the rest of life) does not come naturally for many--myself included, and I lead this group! Those who master this skill build better relationships, find more meaningful clarity, achieve goals, maximize potential, and develop superior problem-solving skills. For these reasons alone, and there are several more, we as leaders must enhance our listening skills.
