Advice for transforming leadership, culture, Curiosity, and communication from Beth Wonson
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When hearing empathy discussed, it is mostly in terms of meeting someone where they are at when they are experiencing distress. But I find positive empathy even more intriguing because of the benefits to both parties. Researchers suggest that people who practice positive empathy build stronger bonds with those around them and are more open to engaging and connecting in positive ways.
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A Simple Plan for the Year Ahead
If you and those around you aren’t clear on where you’re going, how can you possibly get there? Follow my top tips to help you make your 2023 goal setting easier, and clear enough so you can take action. These strategies work for both individual goals and for organizational goals.
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Healthy Predictability is Good for Culture
When you are intentional about learning tools and strategies to become predictable, it’s a gift to those around you and yourself. There’s no more drama and chaos, and less shame and guilt, that unhealthy predictability can create. And you are showing those around you another pathway to deal with life and work pressures.
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The Way We Do Work
Management tools and worker engagement strategies that have been used in the past are just no longer effective. Yet most of my clients continue to try and deploy them. Change is hard, I get that. Still, change is critical. My forward-thinking client recognizes this for the crisis that it is.
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Leading a New Generation of Leaders
I was having a conversation recently with a leader of a large institution who was wondering what changes must be made to lead and develop people who are newly entering the workforce. Do younger generations who are potential or emerging leaders need more consistent and direct feedback than ever before? Or have we all always needed more consistent and direct feedback, but it wasn’t a part of what leadership considered important?
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Defining YOUR Leadership Presence
Even if you aren’t in a leadership position, you have a leadership presence. You get to choose what that leadership presence is. So why not choose a presence that instills confidence?
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What is Leadership Presence?
Leadership presence is your ability to command a room, communicate with charisma, and engage others to follow you. It is the brand that you are known for as a leader. It is what others say about you and think of you when you are not in the room. When you are someone who has authority or power over others, your presence extends far further than the physical space you occupy.
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What We’re Missing About Quiet Quitting
If you haven’t heard of Quiet Quitting by now, you will soon. I’m all for this! 100%. But I don’t love the term quiet. I believe this movement needs to be loud. Both employers and employees need to have difficult, messy, loud, healthy dialogue. Even healthy conflict perhaps. Because that’s how change happens.
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How to Turn Around Chronic Complainers
Chronic complainers are exhausting. They deplete the energy of everyone around them. The challenge is that they often don’t see themselves as complainers. But nevertheless, a chronic complainer must be dealt with before they bring down an entire team. Chronic complainers are not looking for advice or alternative suggestions. Anything you offer that contradicts their powerlessness, or recognition of their hardship, will be rejected.
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How Leaders Shut Down Gossip
Gossip is something we face everyday. It is alive in nearly every workplace, friendship, and family. How we deal with gossip is a key driver in creating the kind of culture we desire in these complex systems and relationships. If you are someone who wishes work culture was more positive and valuing, and you aren’t setting strong boundaries around gossip, you are part of the problem.
Leveling up Leadership and Culture Through Healthy and Candid Communication
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