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Visibility at Work: Why It Matters More Than You Think

October 15, 2025

Visibility at work isn’t about self-promotion; it’s about connection. Without visibility at work, even your best work can go unnoticed. Career visibility is how people know what you contribute, how you collaborate, and the value you bring to the team. Visibility at Work I can’t count the number of times I’ve gone to a work event with my husband where no one said a word to me all night except hello and goodbye. His industry is completely separate from mine,…

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Why the Best Teams Take Ownership — and How to Build Your Team Ownership

October 13, 2025

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Why do professional athletes so often take ownership for errors and misses, while in offices around the world, mistakes and mishaps devolve into blaming, bickering, and finger-pointing? The difference beween teams that take ownership and those that don’t lies in structure. Key Takeaways — Building Team Ownership Building Team Ownership is a Strategy Nearly every leader I work with wants their team to take ownership of their work—and nearly all of them admit how difficult it is to make that…

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A Leadership Guide to Better Decision Making: How to Find the Right Balance to Choose Wisely

October 10, 2025

Decision Making

Leadership decision making is a process—a way of managing the competing factors that pull every decision in different directions. Once you understand the fundamental pulls and build a process to get better information, you can make better choices again and again. The best decisions balance several tensions at once. Because people need to buy in, good decisions balance emotional information with rational analysis. Because innovation is exciting but uncertain, good decision makers balance new ideas with proven data. And because…

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Your Attachment Style and Confidence: How to Understand Confidence and Develop More of It

October 8, 2025

Confidence at Work

Why are some people confident and others aren’t? Research shows that attachment style and confidence are closely related. Attachment style is the way you connect with others and your ability to build trusting relatinships. Attachment style develops early, shaped by how consistently and safely your caregivers responded to your needs. Over time, those patterns become internalized as your “relational blueprint.” As it turns out, how you form relationships with others has a powerful influence on confidence Three Attachment Styles and…

Unlock Better Performance with 5 Practical and Tactical Empathy Skills

October 6, 2025

Empathy in Leadership

Leaders who use practical, tactical empathy skills know that it unlocks people’s inner drive to succeed. Key Takeaways: Empathy Skills That Boost Performance Most leaders know empathy matters, but few connect empathy skills directly to performance. The truth is, when people feel respected, valued, and supported, they work harder and smarter. Empathy isn’t some soft skill or nice to have—it’s an essential performance driver. These five practical and tactical empathy skills help build trust, create psychological safety, and unlock better…

Empathy at Work: How Good Leaders Unlock Motivation and Performance

October 3, 2025

Empathy in Leadership

Think about it: how hard would you work if your boss didn’t understand or care about you? That’s the power of empathy at work. Key Takeaways Just like you, everyone wants to be seen and accepted for who they are and the talents they bring. It’s a fact: empathy is a universal human need. When managers fill a team’s need for empathy, people want to do better. When people feel empathy at work, trust rises, new ideas surface, and teams…