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People disagree with coworkers on a variety of things. We all get it. But when disagreement among workers heats up into a real conflict, it becomes a concern. Researchers categorize workplace conflicts into two types: task conflict and relationship conflict. Task conflict : This relates to differenc...
Key Takeaways Leadership is both an art and a science. While it’s easy for leaders to focus on developing themselves through the art, familiarity with the science aspects of leadership research can greatly inform its practice. There are three essential and three enabling conditions that research sh...
Key takeaway: Leaders need to remind their teams that hard work matters. How many different ways can you tell an athlete that hard work matters? How many different ways do you tell your team that hard work matters? Most coaches and leaders have asked themselves those questions before. They are espec...
Key takeaways: Do not be afraid of failure. As a leader, take chances to defy expectations and go for your goals. Perseverance is a non-negotiable for success as a leader; achieving greatness does not come easy. Team remains as one of the most valuable words for leaders. Super Bowl LVI garnered nume...
Teamwork is where leadership is born! Leadership is cultivated from many essential life skills and characteristics that will help guide you through life’s greatest and toughest transitions. The journey of a collegiate and professional football player manifests many transitions. Some transitions prov...
Have you found yourself in a meeting thinking of all the things you could be doing instead of this meeting? Studies show that meetings can often be painful, tedious, unproductive, and costly: A Gallup study found that unproductive meetings cost U.S. businesses $37 billion annually.1 A MIT Sloan stud...
As many workplaces now begin plans to bring people back to the office after COVID, it’s a great time to consider how the organization’s culture has changed and ─ even more importantly ─ how to create the culture the company wants to have. What is company culture? Company cultures are defined as the ...
For decades, researchers have tried to figure out ways to sustain a team’s performance, satisfaction, and well-being for each member. Shawn Murphy’s book, Work Tribes: The Surprising Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results and Keeping Teams Together, seems to have found an essential key to thi...
I am always amazed and amused by how creative people are on April Fool’s Day. Some pranks are in fact the most inventive ideas I could ever imagined. Do you know that government of The Netherlands announced on April 1 st , 2019 that all trains and train stations would be closed at the end of April f...
Key Takeaways: Humility maximizes team performance Humble leadership can be fostered through six behaviors Though humility is increasingly being recognized as a key trait of effective leaders — a finding backed by scientific research — everyday examples of humble leadership in popular media and film...
