Why is Feedback Essential?

The word feedback is often received with trepidation and a healthy amount of distrust. This is because most people don’t understand or appreciate the need for feedback. Let’s start at the beginning. What is feedback? The term feedback is used to describe useful...

Getting Better At Influencing

Most employees are tired of a workplace culture that does not encourage their individuality. Some ways of increasing your influence at work include: Your goals – Let others know about what you strive to become, where you are headed and / or what path you desire...

Leadership and Influence

The ability to influence is one of the essential skills for leaders at all levels. It’s more art than science, and it can be tough to get your arms around.  But the bottom line is that influence matters. In traditional hierarchical organizations, power is typically...

What Is Influence?

Influence is being able to affect people and their decisions. If you have created, altered or changed someone’s behavior, then you have exerted influence. The ability to influence people is invaluable in both personal and work life. For instance, marketers influence...

How to Build Rapport?

While it is pretty clear that having good working relationship is crucial at work, some people struggle with building rapport with others. Some of the ways to build rapport include getting to know co-workers, listening actively in a conversation rather than...

Self-Awareness and The Workplace

If you have been a part of a training or personal development program in the last decade, chances are that you would have undertaken a self-assessment of sorts. The truth about these instruments are that while they give you insight into who you are and could be quite...
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