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Five Essential Skills to Develop Collaborative Influence

Five Essential Skills to Develop Collaborative Influence

Organizations live or die on relationships. Your ability to create successful collaborative relationships can make or break your career. Effective executives have one skill in common — collaborative influence — the ability to get things done by getting people to...

Who Me? How To Deal With Defensive People.

Who Me? How To Deal With Defensive People.

A co-worker responds with anger whenever someone disagrees with him. A husband retreats into silence whenever he gets into an argument with his wife. An employee buries her boss in piles of irrelevant information whenever she is asked a question. These behaviours...

How to Turn Defensiveness into Success and Satisfaction

How to Turn Defensiveness into Success and Satisfaction

Collaboration isn't magic. It's a mindset and a skill-set that employees at all levels can learn quickly. Are you frustrated by the collaboration void in your workplace? Wonder why, when you’ve struggled to hire the best and the brightest, tempers flare and...

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