Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 3, 2023

Here are some steps to take if you find yourself in this situation: Take a step back and calm down: If you’re feeling frustrated or confused, it’s important to take a step back and calm down before taking any action. Try to breathe deeply and focus on your surroundings to clear your head and relax.

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Leadership Development Manager 140

Mark Sandborn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What Should Always Come before Leadership Before you earn the right to lead others, you must first be able to lead yourself. How can that person help others be more successful? Self-leadership is the art of taking responsibility for your own life and making conscious choices that align with your values, passions, and goals.

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Accounts Manager 93

Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As a leader, it’s essential to be aware of the warning signs of burnout and take steps to prevent it. As a leader, it’s essential to be aware of the warning signs of burnout and take steps to prevent it. As an executive leadership coach, one of the most common concerns I hear from leaders is the fear of burnout.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Understanding engagement and how ideas connect with an audience. How does a thought leader get an audience to take notice, remember, and actively use the content you are putting out? To get a firm grasp of exactly what engagement means and how to get your audience there, I’ve invited Scott Gould to join me.

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Media Marketing Employee Engagement Scaling 305

Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Take time to reflect on your core values and use them as a compass to guide your leadership journey. It takes courage to take risks, make difficult decisions, and stand up for what you believe in. Caring Will Get You Appreciated: Lastly, being a leader means being someone that cares about the people that you lead.

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Employee Engagement Manager Leadership Development 93

Lolly Daskal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Show them how to approach challenges with determination and a positive attitude. Do #3: Foster a Growth Mindset: Embrace a growth mindset, both for yourself and your team. Instead of hovering over every task, empower your team to take ownership of their work. Be transparent about your goals, expectations, and vision.

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Leadership Development Manager 98

Vantage Circle

APRIL 20, 2023

In this blog, we will dive into the significance of this special day, why it matters for employees, and how HR can play a pivotal role in celebrating and promoting the day. So, buckle up, and let's explore how "National Leave the Office Early Day" can make a real difference in your organization!

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Marketing Manager Employee Engagement Benefits 98

Peter Winick

APRIL 17, 2023

How thought leadership can spread technical ideas to an under-informed audience. So how can thought leadership elevates you above the others in that space in a way that connects with a larger audience? He discusses his target of posting at least once a day and how he judges the success of each post.

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Risk Management Manager Marketing Sales 130

15Five

MARCH 30, 2022

In our series on self-care at work, we’ve covered topics like how to create a self-care culture and top reasons why HR leaders are struggling right now. We’ve talked about the importance of employee self-care and how HR can lead the charge in normalizing it as part of a healthy workplace.

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Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 16, 2024

How do you talk to the AIs you've tried out? Well, it turns out HOW you ask makes a big difference in the results you get from AI. In today’s edition, we share an awesome interview question to ask managers you're considering hiring, talk about some fascinating AI research, and look at how to best announce employee departures.

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Lolly Daskal

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, there are steps that leaders can take to avoid or manage feelings of overwhelm. This means taking time to exercise, eat well, get enough sleep, and engage in activities that bring them joy and relaxation. Set boundaries: It’s important for leaders to set clear boundaries around their time and energy.

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Energy Manager Leadership Development 81

Lolly Daskal

JULY 5, 2023

Here are some strategies for leading when you don’t feel like a leader and how to tap into your own inner strength and resilience: Leadership is not about perfection. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and can offer guidance and encouragement. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leadership Development Manager 76

Lolly Daskal

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you seek innovation, embrace it yourself. Resolve Conflicts Effectively: Conflicts are inevitable, but how you address them matters. Great leaders understand that fostering a cohesive workplace is not just about managing people; it’s about inspiring and guiding a unified team towards shared goals.

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Diversity Inclusion Manager Leadership Development 106

Get Lighthouse

MAY 3, 2023

How can you tell if a company's culture is on a good track or not? If you care about culture, how do you know if you should join a company, or invest in them? When it is first laid out, it is malleable and can take many shapes. How can you tell if a company's culture is on a good track or not? So what do you do?

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Lolly Daskal

MARCH 15, 2022

Here’s a quick checkup you can give yourself on the skills leaders most often need to improve: How are your communication skills? How are your growth mindset skills? How are your emotional intelligence skills? How are your influence-building skills? How are your appreciation skills?

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Operations Leadership Development Manager 145

Scott Elbin

JUNE 7, 2022

Here it is verbatim: One of my questions leading into the summer is any tips/guidance for how to bounce back if your travels take your routines out of sync. How do you bounce back? (i.e., My suggestion is to come up with a plan and approach for yourself that is based on three time frames: before, during and after.

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Travel Compensation Manager 70

Get Lighthouse

JUNE 9, 2023

How do you know when to quit your job, when so many others depend on you?" In the process of growing Lighthouse and writing this blog, we have talked to a lot of leaders. While many of the questions are innocent (" How do I grow my people when there is lack of promotion opportunities ?" Do they feel sold out or left behind?

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Get Lighthouse

MAY 3, 2024

If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients." - Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire of companies As a manager, this is an important message to remember. How you treat those you work with determines how your team, your department, and your company fare. We all have bosses.

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Manager Project Management Benefits Employee Engagement 52

Lolly Daskal

AUGUST 2, 2022

Even the best leader can’t do it on their own—it takes a group of people coming together with commitment and a shared purpose. Here are some of the ways the best leaders inspire others to own their work and take responsibility for their part in accomplishing something great: They know their own role—and their limits.

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Energy Accounts Leadership Development Manager 101

Scott Elbin

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

So, if after reading through all the above, you’ve diagnosed yourself as a leader who’s stuck in chronic fight or flight, what can you do to get out of it so that you make better decisions in the short run and live a longer, healthier life in the long run? With a constant sense of low-grade threat and “what am I missing?”,

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Operations Benefits Manager 67

Optimum Associates

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Nurturing vs Toxic to Yourself Written by Marty Seldman, Ph.D. In the previous article the focus was on how other people treat us. Now we are going to revisit the same concepts of Nurturing and Toxic behavior but we are going to examine the consequences of how we treat ourselves. How about your interactions with yourself?

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Benefits Advertising Media Accounts 52

Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kraig shares where the inspiration for Rock the C-Suite came from and how corporate messaging is better received through the performing arts. Kraig provides great advice for landing meetings with executives and creating high-octane events that any company can take advantage of. All right thought leaders – be honest.

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Deliverables Energy Accounts Payable Sales 260

Peter Winick

APRIL 17, 2023

How times are changing for thought leadership and what you can do to keep up. When you’ve spent decades behind the curtain, building brands and platforms for other thought leaders – what does it take to step into the spotlight and create your own? Three Key Takeaways: Strategy is constantly changing.

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Chief Executive

APRIL 21, 2023

And while many commenters, news outlets, and blogs are more than happy to pile on and reprimand Owen for what she said during the meeting, I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt. How we choose to do that is also critical, and there are a few things leaders should consider before communicating with their employees.

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Get Lighthouse

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Losing a valued team member is always difficult, and how you handle their resignation makes a big difference. If you handle it well, they’ll leave on positive terms and your remaining team members will see that your care about them is genuine. It can take root in work cultures where only optimistic messaging is valued.

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Manager Scaling Team Management Benefits 52

Lolly Daskal

MAY 23, 2023

When you demonstrate empathy as a leader, you show your team that you care about them, you are willing to put yourself in their shoes. Take the time to understand and utilize these foundational communication techniques, and you will see the benefits in both your personal and professional relationships.

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Implementation Benefits Employee Engagement Manager 115

Get Lighthouse

MAY 10, 2022

In this week’s episode, I share a personal story about how I learned much more than I originally planned when I had to give some tough feedback and coaching to a struggling star employee. It helped me see how leaders can play the long game to win big with their people. The easy answer would be to pounce and criticize. Believe them.

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Recruitment Manager Benefits 98

Get Lighthouse

MARCH 28, 2024

Because today’s post is going to show you how you can survive a performance improvement plan (PIP) and stay at the company you're at, avoiding being let go because of it. Because today’s post is going to show you how you can survive a performance improvement plan (PIP) and stay at the company you're at, avoiding being let go because of it.

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Manager Recruitment 52

Get Lighthouse

JUNE 21, 2022

Knowing how to build rapport is the foundation of forming any great relationship. Camille Fournier, author and former CTO of Rent The Runway, believes this as well as she described it in a post on her blog , calling it: Relatedness. " Why it's so important to build rapport with your team. Rapport makes your team members more engaged.

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Manager Travel Employee Engagement Education 136

Get Lighthouse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A recent Tiktok has gone viral where someone talks about how much they hate their job and how little energy they have after their workday ends. It takes *a lot* more energy to do a job you don't like, than one you do. If you've ever had a bad manager, you know how much of a miserable tyrant they can be.

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Manager Energy Marketing Culture Change 52

Mind Tools Team Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

So how can we best motivate others? I usually take this path at least twice a day. I could sense how “John” must’ve felt. Or maybe you’re stimulated by a softer approach that someone else would find boring and uninspiring. Whichever method you use, there are surefire ways to motivate and not to motivate.

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Education Scaling Energy Manager 68

Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 4, 2023

How are my managers really doing? The more removed from the day-to-day work you are, the harder it is to have a feel for what's happening and how people are really doing. The more removed from the day-to-day work you are, the harder it is to have a feel for what's happening and how people are really doing. Let's dive in.

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Manager Retention Engineering Revenue 131

Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How you look when you say something is often as important as what you’re say and how you’re saying it. Sit up in a straight but relaxed posture, hold yourself still, and show you’re paying attention. Sit up in a straight but relaxed posture, hold yourself still, and show you’re paying attention. Lack of eye contact.

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Leadership Development Manager 145

Get Lighthouse

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Today, we take a look at what those key benefits are to building rapport with your team. Today, we take a look at what those key benefits are to building rapport with your team. Show you care by making the effort. How to Build Rapport with Your Team. "Why isn't my team responding to me?!?". What was he doing wrong?

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Manager Benefits Employee Engagement Onboarding 136

Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 20, 2023

As a manager, you may feel low morale yourself; no one is immune to the harsh realities of the modern workplace. Sheryl Sandberg wrote about dealing with her husband's death, where no one knew what to say or how to help her. At many companies, low morale is a fact of life. On average, two of every three people are not engaged at work.

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Manager Banking Engineering Benefits 134

Lolly Daskal

AUGUST 30, 2022

Most leaders struggle to some degree with the belief that if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself. Here’s how you need to do it.” When you tell people not just what to do but how to do it, you’re micromanaging. Instead, ask “How can we refine that idea?”. “ How is it important to you? “I

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Inclusion Leadership Development Manager 145

Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 9, 2022

Today, I'd like to share with you the best John Wooden Quotes I found on leadership as I read this book, and how you can apply them: "You can never make up for a lost day." "You John Wooden is one of the greatest coaches of all time. He led his UCLA men's basketball team to a stunning 10 NCAA Championships in 12 years.

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