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Leading yourself

Leading yourself

- I work with organizational leaders all over the world who are dealing with some significant workplace challenges such as finding top talent, increasing employee engagement and retention, fostering cultures of inclusion, equity, and belonging, responding to numerous social and geopolitical issues that spill over into the workplace, and a hybrid work environment, to name a few. Over the past few years, my firm has conducted hundreds of staff focus groups, listening sessions, and training programs regarding the employee experience and the state of the workplace culture. What we have found to be the most common denominator among those thousands of workers is a lack of effective leadership at all levels. So let's start there. What is effective leadership? In my 30 plus years of experience, I define effective leadership as the ability to identify the untapped potential in others and to develop and grow them in such a way…

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