Do you know how to market yourself?
How do you find the right balance between effective and excessive self promotion? The answer is personal branding.
Cover letter templates
A cover letter is often your first communication with a potential employer, and therefore it is vital that when writing a cover letter you make it compelling and professional from the very first line, marking you out as a candidate they need to contact.
What do your team members expect when it comes to promotions?
Asking for additional training, coaching, or professional development is not a sign of weakness. In fact, it can actually reinforce your commitment to wanting to grow and excel within the business … and FYI a growth mindset is a very positive attribute.
The science of curiosity
Taking an interest can lead to a longer, better life.
Communicating with impact
Listening is a key leadership skill and responsibility. Build your active listening and building rapport skills using the REAL model.
Building relationships and increasing influence
Understand how to communicate with influence to build relationships, get buy in and achieve results.
You have two ears and one mouth for a reason
The power of active listening is a key leadership skill.
What does it mean to be a data-driven leader?
What sort of data driven decisions are you making today? Are you using data to drive your budgeting decisions? Marketing spend? Customer demographic focus? Hiring strategy? Branding updates? Website messaging? Sales targets? Pricing models? Product iterations? User experience? As long as you have access to the data, you can easily use it to make important decisions right across your business. Check out our hellomonday post to appreciate what it takes to be a data-driven leader.
The shortness of time
If we see someone throwing money away, we call that person crazy. Money has value. Wasting it seems nuts. And yet we see others—and ourselves—throw away something far more valuable every day: Time. This article covers 4 ways we may mis-understand time.
Why “Systems Thinking” should become your go-to leadership strategy
Organisations can only function when the people, the processes, and the technology are all in sync. When a leader adopts a Systems Thinking approach to business operations, she isn’t just looking at the people (or teams), processes, and product / software in isolation, she’s looking at (thinking about) the broader situation … in other words, the system. Read this article to appreciate why Systems Thinking should become your go-to leadership strategy.