New Study: Female Employees Receive Less Useful Feedback

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Most of the time it's great to hear positive feedback at work. But there's one obvious exception: when the praise is a white lie. While being told your work needs improvement isn't fun, at least if you know where you're falling short you can strive to improve. If no one tells you you're underperforming, you'll continue on blissfully ignorant right up to the day you get fired. ...
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Reopening? Learn How to Help Your Employees Feel Safe Psychologically

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As the doors to stores, offices, and manufacturing plants open again, leaders are grappling with new local and federal safety procedures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. But whatever number of facemasks or bottles of hand sanitizer are on hand, business owners still need to make sure employees feel safe, both in the workplace and around customers....
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A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Thriving in Close Quarters, Part 6: Exercise

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The sixth and final action to the R.E.M.O.T.E. lessons learned while leading SEALs in submarines is Exercise. As simple as it might sound, exercise is the most important action you can take when faced with mountains of uncertainty and isolation. All of the actions I have shared with you over the past few weeks have been about focusing on the few things we can control. In fact, that’s what SEAL training is all about: mastering what I call our “controllables.” In Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training, one of the first tenents we are taught is understanding our weapon’s platform, which is simply our mental, emotional and physical capabilities. I call this our action platform in my most recent book: UNSTOPPABLE TEAMS: The 4 Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership. How we think, what we believe and our subsequent ability to take action define our direction and represent the single most important pillar of how we lead ourselves. Read more...
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Is Your Personality Permanent? New Research Says ‘No.’

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I caught up this week with a longtime friend, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, an organizational psychologist whose newest book, “Personality Isn’t Permanent” will be appearing in June.  Hardy is young — a thirty-something husband and the father of five. He and his wife Lauren adopted three children (with great difficulty) from the foster system, and also have year-old twins. He’s very accomplished as a scholar, speaker, organizational psychologist and author, but is surprisingly low-key in conversation. In the five or so years I’ve known him we’ve had fascinating exchanges on a number of topics: habits, self-discipline, communication — and most recently, personality. Unlike traditional experts, Hardy maintains our personalities are not fixed. He maintains and demonstrates through research that our lifestyles, preferences, attitudes and character traits are surprisingly fluid. At every stage, our personalities are the result of the decisions and pivotal experiences along with non-decisions and habits we accumulate on the way.  ...
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5 Ways Smart People Sabotage Their Success

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Mark was always one of the smartest kids in his class. He’s done well in his career, but when he checks Facebook, he sees people he outperformed at school who have now achieved more. Likewise, there are colleagues at his firm who have leapfrogged him. Sometimes he wonders, “What am I doing wrong?” Sound familiar? You might relate to Mark yourself, or have an employee or loved one who struggles with similar feelings. Raw intelligence is undoubtedly a huge asset, but it isn’t everything. And sometimes, when intellectually gifted people don’t achieve as much as they’d like to, it’s because they’re subtly undermining themselves. If you’re in this situation, the good news is that when you understand these foibles you can turn them around. Here are five I’ve seen smart people particularly struggle with: Read More...
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3 Ways to Grow Your Small Business (Even If You’re Still Closed)

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It's located just four miles from the retail and corporate epicenter of New York City, but the place where I live--Hoboken--gets its color and character from the multitude of small businesses that line our streets and play an active and essential role within our community. Residents and business owners depend heavily upon one another; the goods and services sold here generate revenue that goes right back into our local economy.  And so it wasn't totally a surprise, but still a deep shock to our entire system, when our mayor, Ravi Bhalla, was among the first in America to shut the doors of all of our non-essential businesses, both large and small, to keep us safe from the health crisis that was at our doorstep. Read More...
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