Introduction
Introduction to the weekly series
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1. Communication and Influence
Creating a lasting first impression
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Reading body language
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Becoming a better listener
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Communicating with candor
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Storytelling at work
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Using persuasion at work
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5 Phrases to Avoid
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The keys to great conversation
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Selling your ideas
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Leading with ideas over numbers
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Developing executive presence
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Speaking to be heard
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Using positive power and politics
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Structuring an effective presentation
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How to deliver an effective presentation
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Dealing with inappropriate comments
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How to improve communication immediately
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How to show respect
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Avoiding the seven toxic words
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2. Creativity, Innovation, and Change
Becoming a change agent
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Finding targets for innovation
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Assessing your organization's change readiness
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Embracing failure
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Developing your creativity
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Breaking through with brainstorming
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Embracing the devil's advocate
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Managing creative talent
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Fighting bureaucracy
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Not all best practices are best
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Diversity’s real power
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Initiating change conversations
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Creating needed debate
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict
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Myth of creative genius
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Changing routines to build new thought
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Making risk feel like learning
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The difference between creativity and innovation
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People don't hate change
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Advocating for the unpopular
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The upside of limited resources
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Understanding change capacity
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Picking a successful fight at work
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Start, stop, change
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3. Decision Making
Making better decisions at work
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Creating solutions, not policies
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The danger of short-term thinking
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Navigating common ethical dilemmas
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Making tough decisions
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Understanding averages and exceptions
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A simple approach to personal ethics
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Overcoming unconscious bias
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Reinforcing ethics
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When it’s time to be autocratic
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4. Difficult Skills
Managing your manager
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Working with people you don't like
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Surviving a bad boss
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Working with difficult bosses
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Dealing with a public insult from your boss
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The three strikes rule
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Leading someone with a low EQ (emotional quotient)
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Disagreeing successfully with the boss
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Telling someone how they are viewed by others
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5. Finding and Developing Talent
Cultivating future leaders
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Hiring to fill gaps in your team
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Retaining top performers
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Engaging your high potentials
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Building a destination workplace
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Giving a realistic job preview
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Rethinking the job description
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Thinking about hiring in a new way
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Creative onboarding
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Hiring a few originals
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Avoiding the Peter Principle
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When you hire the wrong person
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How to spot leadership potential
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6. Management Tactics
Being a leader, not a micromanager
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Restarting a stalled project
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Building consensus
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Predicting challenges
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Dealing with a new boss off to a bad start
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Making yourself approachable
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Leading with questions
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Using the trial balloon
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The personal thank you
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Surviving as an introvert
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Effective ways to grab input
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Psychology tips for managers
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Dewett’s Rules
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7. Managing a Team
Getting your team unstuck
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Coaching your team
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Motivating team members
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Keeping a virtual team connected
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Motivating by getting your hands dirty
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Planning your team-building retreat
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Facilitating your team-building retreat
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Discovering the problem with teams
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Understanding personality types at work
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Signs of team dysfunction
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When to use team decision-making
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Know your team's reputation
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When there is a bully on your team
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Clarifying norms
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Stimulating group learning
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8. Managing Performance
Managing millennials
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Managing a multigenerational workforce
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Managing poor performance
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Delivering employee feedback
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Making work fun
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Building trust
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Empowering through BHAGs
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Building transparency into your work culture
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Getting serious about autonomy
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Managing technical talent
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Building a better meeting
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Questioning competency models
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Rethinking productivity
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How to make meetings more effective
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Schedule time in the trenches
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Progress not perfection
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When to walk away from a project
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Signs of a toxic workplace
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Classic opportunities for fun
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9. Managing Your Career
Networking within your organization
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Understanding organizational politics
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Earning your next promotion
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Planning for your next raise
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Developing work and life balance
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Leading as an introvert
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So you want to be a leader?
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Using phone etiquette
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The successful contrarian
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How to quit your job successfully
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Developing a personal board of directors
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Providing purpose
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Why liking is overrated
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The challenge of middle management
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From a technical role to a management role
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The leadership oath
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How to produce value for your network
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The three kinds of resumes
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All behaviors have consequences
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10. Personal Growth and Development
Avoiding burnout at work
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Learning how to say no
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Offering a needed apology
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Fixing mistakes
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Finding purpose in your work
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Avoiding blame
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Surviving the loneliness of leadership
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Knowing the difference between quitting and refocusing
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Making and recovering from mistakes
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Three dangerous leadership assumptions
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Are leaders born or bred?
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Maximizing personal potential
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Pushing your limits
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Understanding strengths and weaknesses
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Earning respect
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Embracing personal evolution
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The art of delayed gratification
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Inspiration is a choice
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Managing emotions at work
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Building self-awareness as a manager
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Why it's smart to share your uncertainties
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Let them teach you
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How to solicit feedback from the team
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Using a work diary
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Tips for dealing with pressure at work
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How to admit you’re wrong
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