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Which is the best daily planner for busy entrepreneurs?

Power naps can significantly boost your energy, mood, productivity, and creativity.

If you often feel lethargic during the day, rely on caffeine to maintain your focus, or sleep poorly at night, you are an excellent candidate for taking power naps.

Let’s take a look at how to power nap the right way.

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The mental and physical benefits of power napping

Evidence that power…

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What to Do About Mediocrity on Your Team

The toughest test of a manager is not how they address mediocrity.

The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity.

I’ve been struck over the years watching executives opine in public about the need for “accountability” and “high performance,” then complain helplessly in private about one or two middling members of their own team. You have no moral authority to ask other managers to hold people…

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#Leadership #Mediocity #Performance evaluation #supportive management

Research: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent

We often make judgments about people based on small snippets of their behavior.

As a society, we often make judgments about people based on small snippets of their behavior. For example, we may judge a person’s confidence, competence, and status on the success of a single joke. Telling a joke to an unfamiliar audience is risky — Will they laugh? Will they be offended? Even if they laugh, will they really think the joke is funny? Take these two tweets:

“First full day as…

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#Creativity #ego #Feedback

The Typology of Modern Day Slavery

An educational resource for Modern Slavery

Polaris created The Typology of Modern Day Slavery to serve as an educational resource that examines the different types of modern day slavery seen in the United States today. This 80-page free downloadable guide addresses 25 different types of modern day slavery and their characteristics.

To create the guide, Polaris analyzed “more than 32,000 cases of human traffickingdocumented between…

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#modern slavery

How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting

a well-designed agenda increases the team’s ability to effectively and quickly address them.

We’ve all been in meetings where participants are unprepared, people veer off-track, and the topics discussed are a waste of the team’s time. These problems — and others like it — stem from poor agenda design. An effective agenda sets clear expectations for what needs to occur before and during a meeting. It helps team members prepare, allocates time wisely, quickly gets everyone on the same…

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#Meetings

7 Things You Should Have Done When You Were Promoted

Tips for newly promoted leaders.

You are several weeks or even months to your new leadership position, and you are struggling. You can’t figure out why, but you don’t feel like a leader (or your employees don’t treat you like one), and each day brings challenges that you weren’t quite expecting when you accepted the promotion.

If that is the case, or even if you just want to become a more effective leader, read this list to…

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#Promotion

Become a Better Listener by Taking Notes

By improving the way you listen to others in meetings, you can reduce misunderstandings.

Team dynamics can make or break a meeting. Have you ever been in a meeting where people interrupt each other, introduce new ideas when they should be building on the conversation, and repeat someone else’s point just to be heard? These communication issues waste time and energy, and usually lead to more meetings to correct misunderstandings, reiterate decisions, or soothe hurt feelings and…

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#Communication #communication Planning #Meetings

Become a Better Listener by Taking Notes

By improving the way you listen to others in meetings, you can reduce misunderstandings.

Team dynamics can make or break a meeting. Have you ever been in a meeting where people interrupt each other, introduce new ideas when they should be building on the conversation, and repeat someone else’s point just to be heard? These communication issues waste time and energy, and usually lead to more meetings to correct misunderstandings, reiterate decisions, or soothe hurt feelings and…

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#Communication #communication Planning #Meetings

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How to Deal with a Compromising Situation at Work

No one wants to feel pressured to do something they don’t agree with.

But what should you do if the incentives at your company seem to be rewarding behavior that you believe is bad for your customers or clients, or maybe even illegal?

If you find yourself in this precarious situation, take a step back and make sure you really understand the situation. Ask yourself: Is this a practice that’s…

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3 Mistakes to Avoid When You’re Challenging the Status Quo

You have a great idea that will improve operations, but it goes against the way things are done. Now the challenge is to break through the bureaucracy to get your idea implemented. When you’re taking the role of rebel at work, there are a few pitfalls to avoid:

Going solo.It’s tempting to think you can do it all on your own. But you can’t. Temper your ego and collaborate with others to advance…

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Build Your Own Personal Board of Directors

If you’re looking to rise through your organization’s ranks, but aren’t sure how, consider creating a personal board of directors. This informal group comprises six to eight people who can help with your professional development. There are three types of people you should include. First, you need fans — people who support you and will deliver tough feedback with kindness and good intent. Second,…

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SWOT no more!

An introduction towards SWOT alternatives

During my time leading a publishing business, time and time again we used the SWOT analysis in our strategy meetings. A classic tool which I was first introduced to when I entered business college in Vienna 25 years ago. It’s simple logic of analysing internal Strengths and Weaknesses, matched with external Opportunities and Threats does, in theory, highlight a clear path for your strategy. Well,…

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#Strategy

A 5-Step Process to Get More Out of Your Organization’s Data

Practical example on why proper data management system should be in place

“My best employees are leaving,” Daniel told me, “and I can’t seem to figure out why.”

Daniel (not his real name) was a VP human resource manager at a Fortune 500 company. I asked him whether he had collected any data that could provide him with insights into systematic patterns. “I made sure we get exit interviews done with every single employee who is leaving us,” he replied. “I even personally…

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#Feedback #Leadership

All Change is Personal: How to develop a more agile workforce

Under pressure our brains will be inflexible resistant and rigid not agile and adaptive

It’s an astonishing statistic, but roughly two out of three change initiatives fail to meet their stated targets. This is significant since most companies must undertake moderate organizational changes at least once a year (and major changes every four or five years) due to disruption from technology, their industry and/or the competition.

As a senior leader, you’re likely either planning or…

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#Change

How to Make Sure Your Emails Give the Right Impression

Every email you send affects your professional personal brand.

Given the avalanche of email we receive each year — 121 messages per day, on average — it’s no wonder that we have become somewhat desensitized to its impact on our professional brand. We’ll spend hours polishing our LinkedIn profiles and revising our résumés, but hastily hit send on an unintelligible missive simply because we’re in a rush. “Sent from my device, please overlook typos” is not a…

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#Business Writing

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