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Fierce Tip of the Week: Provide Feedback
This week in your conversations focus your attention outwards and take advantage of opportunities to provide constructive feedback. The ability to thoughtfully articulate and explain areas where a...
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3 Tips for Leaders to Address a Team Performance Issue
As a leader, ideally, you’ve built a relationship with each of your employees. You’ve swapped stories about your families, collaborated on successful work projects, and built the emotional capital...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Feedback Fuels a Transparent Culture
This month I’ve talked about transparency and trust. It definitely got a reaction, and the dialogue got me thinking: What fuels a culture of transparency? For me, one very tangible aspect of a...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Share Stories About Feedback
Today, we launch our newest module: Fierce Feedback. We are unveiling it at ASTD 2014, and the new training program is now available for implementation by organizations, as well as certification for...
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Corrective Leadership: How Should Managers Use Praise and Criticism to...
Fierce CEO, Halley Bock, was interviewed in this CFA Magazine article by Lori Pizzani. It was originally posted here. Which would you rather hear from your boss: praise or criticism? Now ask yourself:...
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Motivating the Negative Nancy on Your Team
Fierce CEO, Halley Bock, was interviewed in this Entrepreneur article by Zeynep Ilgaz. It was originally posted here. At my previous job, I worked with a team on an important project. Our group was...
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Holding Back? 3 Tips to Foster More Feedback
Feedback. We all want it, and we rarely get enough of it. Feedback taps into our emotional desire to be seen. We crave it. When I feel like I am not giving or receiving enough feedback, I check in....
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Give Positive Feedback
Thanksgiving is this week in the United States. Many of us take time off work and share meals with family and friends. We often pause on this holiday to express our gratitude (here is a conversation...
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Three Gratitude Exercises for Leaders To Embrace
The holiday season is a time to reflect, a time to stop and think about all that we have to be grateful for. For many individuals, thankfulness is directed towards friends, family, and all the...
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Holding Back? 3 Tips to Foster More Feedback
As we close out 2014, here’s one of our top blogs of all time. It serves as a great reminder to stay present and give feedback, even if it’s just a quick gesture of appreciation. Feedback. We all want...
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Are You a Feedback Genius? Test it.
A Feedback Genius: Someone who is strong in both giving and receiving feedback. This person gives feedback frequently and chances are that has made them pretty good at it. This person welcomes feedback...
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Spearheading Employee Recognition: Welcome to the Age of Being Seen
We live in a time where everyone is visible more than ever before — now we can even see how far our reach extends with profile views, shares, tweets, and “likes.” In a world where every failure,...
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What Presidential Candidates Could Learn From Pope Francis
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. -Adlai StevensonWith the political primaries in full swing, voters’ blood is boiling...
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Leaders, Curb Your Stress – Find Your Magic Hour
April is Stress Awareness Month. When reflecting on your life, how would you rank your stress level from 1-10? Under wraps? Off the charts? What causes it?Among U.S. adults, work is the second most...
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5 Tips for Having a Better One-on-One with Your Direct Reports
According to Lucid Meetings research, 55 million meetings occur per day. For average workers that means eight meetings per week. For managers, 12 per week. Meetings can vary from status updates to...
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Three Tips to Have Your Team Celebrate Earth Day
Friday is Earth Day, and as inhabitants of this place, we want to show gratitude to where we live. John Muir, Scottish-American environmental activist and author made this appreciation and preservation...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Don’t Procrastinate with Your Conversations
What conversations are you currently stalling? At work? At home? No one likes to admit it, yet we do often put off tasks and responsibilities. Many studies report that extreme procrastination affects...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Invite Negative Emotions
It is common to feel discomfort when dealing with other people’s emotions in the workplace. The old saying – leave your emotions at the door – can be a real invitation. I’m sure you know someone that...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Take Time to Talk with Your Boss
Today is National Boss’s Day, and whether you loathe or admire yours, it’s a good time to reflect on the role this individual plays in your life. There are identified areas that contribute to a...
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Fierce Tip of the Week: Stay Healthy
It is that time of year again in North America. The days are shorter, and you most likely go into the office when it is still dark. And leave when it is dark too. It’s called winter.The seasonal change...
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