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New Leaders: Where to Find the Support You Need

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Ending Virtual Meetings and Events

Before you landed your supervisory position, you could seek advice from, vent to and share ideas with just about anyone. As long as you trusted the person and valued his or her insight, any colleague had sounding-board potential. Now your situation is more complicated. On the one hand, you have a lot more on your plate, meaning a lot more you want and need to talk about. On … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: Bud to Boss, Bud to Boss workshop, develop yourself, leadership development, training

Do You Want to Become a More Influential Supervisor?

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The highly popular Bud to Boss Workshop, presented by the Kevin Eikenberry Group, offers these tips to make your communication more powerful, persuasive and meaningful: Speak with people, not to them. Ask more questions. Make fewer assertions.  Speak with people the way that they want to be spoken with. In this case, ignore the Golden Rule. It doesn’t matter how you would … [Read more...]

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Avoid Your Boss’s Mistakes

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The following is a guest post by Esther Francis Joseph. After years of hard work, you’ve made your way through your organization’s ranks and have finally received the recognition you deserve by getting the promotion you’ve been dreaming of. And after many years of being overworked and under-appreciated by managers, you vow, “When I become the boss, I am not going to make the … [Read more...]

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