5 Tips To Having Courageous Conversations With Your Team

“Our work, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail one conversation at a time. While no single conversation is guaranteed to transform a company, a relationship, or a life, any single conversation can. Speak and listen as if this…

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360 Degree Feedback

“Common wisdom says that it takes about 10,000 hours to become an expert on anything, but that’s really only if you have high quality, frequent feedback during those hours.” – Christian Vanek 360 degree feedback, or multi-rater feedback, is a…

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5 Steps To Building Your Dream Team

“A team is a small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals and approach for which they are mutually accountable.” – Katzenbach and Smith “The power of the team is stronger than…

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Imposter Syndrome

“I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’” – Maya Angelou Do you ever feel like you…

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A Leader’s Guide to Successful Networking

“Sometimes, idealistic people are put off by the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to…

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Influencing Styles

“…as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.” – Albert Einstein Who hasn’t experienced the challenge of having to get things…

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Leading as an Expat: 5 Tips to Help you Succeed in Western Europe

“If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.” – Lik Hock Yap Ivan Western Europe is one of the richest regions in the world with thriving agriculture, manufacturing, banking and transport sectors, to name just a…

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Leading as an Expat: 5 Tips to Help you Succeed in the Far East

“Deeply rooted in the Chinese concept of face are conceptualizations of a competent person in Chinese society: one who defines and puts self in relation to others and who cultivates morality so that his or her conduct will not lose…

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Leading as an Expat: 5 Tips to Help you Succeed in Africa

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” – African proverb Media coverage has often emphasised the negative sides of Africa; the wars, the famine, the disease. However, the continent which is the…

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Leading as an Expat: 5 Tips to Help you Succeed in America

 “Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.” – Thomas Perez   After we began our…

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