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		<title>5 Professional Development Opportunities Businesses Should Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Offering useful and meaningful professional development opportunities to your staff members is one of the keys to a more effective company. Investing in professional development may help your company avoid costly mistakes and keep your best employees motivated and increase their knowledge. This way, it may be more likely that you’ll retain your best workers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On Leadership and Burning a Few Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hopkins</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom tells us to never burn a single bridge in our professional lives because you never know when you might need that relationship again.  I firmly believe that there are going to be circumstances and people that nearly require you to do this: Burn some bridges so that you will never need to work [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom tells us to never burn a single bridge in our professional lives because you never know when you might need that relationship again.  I firmly believe that there are going to be circumstances and people that nearly require you to do this: Burn some bridges so that you will never need to work [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Equipping Leaders to Battle Fear with Accountability</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/05/11/equipping-leaders-to-battle-fear-with-accountability/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=equipping-leaders-to-battle-fear-with-accountability</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ellis</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Six Leadership Obstacles to Team Success   As leaders, we want the positive elements of success—achievement, notoriety, money, and excellence for clients and customers. But we’re unwilling to do the right things to get there. The missing cultural piece is courageous accountability. What are the six obstacles that can get you off-course? Read Lee’s latest article [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Six Leadership Obstacles to Team Success   As leaders, we want the positive elements of success—achievement, notoriety, money, and excellence for clients and customers. But we’re unwilling to do the right things to get there. The missing cultural piece is courageous accountability. What are the six obstacles that can get you off-course? Read Lee’s latest article [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>L2L Book Review &#8220;Under New Management&#8221; by David Burkus</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/05/03/l2l-book-review-under-new-management-by-david-burkus/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=l2l-book-review-under-new-management-by-david-burkus</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 14:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elliot Begoun</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[David Burkus argues in his book Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual that the management practices that have evolved from the factory work economy just do not apply to today&#8217;s knowledge work economy. Burkus walks the reader through compelling case studies of companies who have abandoned traditional management and leadership practices in favor of [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[David Burkus argues in his book Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual that the management practices that have evolved from the factory work economy just do not apply to today&#8217;s knowledge work economy. Burkus walks the reader through compelling case studies of companies who have abandoned traditional management and leadership practices in favor of [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Mentoring in the Workplace: Spreading the Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda R. Ranieri</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[We often hear about the need for gaining and sharing organizational knowledge to further our careers, reach our goals (and create new ones), and make connections in various industries. One of the best ways to share knowledge is also a vital part of the leadership toolkit – mentoring. Mentoring in the Workplace Mentoring is an [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We often hear about the need for gaining and sharing organizational knowledge to further our careers, reach our goals (and create new ones), and make connections in various industries. One of the best ways to share knowledge is also a vital part of the leadership toolkit – mentoring. Mentoring in the Workplace Mentoring is an [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Communication Breakdown: Are You Resonating With Your Audience?</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/04/28/communication-breakdown-are-you-resonating-with-your-audience/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=communication-breakdown-are-you-resonating-with-your-audience</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Grossman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating!?!?” Although this can be very frustrating, it certainly does not mean that you should just stop communicating (as I&#8217;ve also heard&#8230;) Knowing Your Audience Problem: Most likely, the failure to communicate effectively an indicator that you need to take [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating!?!?” Although this can be very frustrating, it certainly does not mean that you should just stop communicating (as I&#8217;ve also heard&#8230;) Knowing Your Audience Problem: Most likely, the failure to communicate effectively an indicator that you need to take [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Leadership and The Ugly Four-Letter Word: Fear</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/04/19/leadership-and-the-ugly-four-letter-word-fear/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leadership-and-the-ugly-four-letter-word-fear</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[We all have different ideas of what fear looks like.  Some people fear taking risks, others fear conflict or confrontation, and still others fear rejection by peers, just to name a few. So what is fear?   My Fear of Failure Personally, I struggle with fear of failure.  I am a perfectionist by nature, as are [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We all have different ideas of what fear looks like.  Some people fear taking risks, others fear conflict or confrontation, and still others fear rejection by peers, just to name a few. So what is fear?   My Fear of Failure Personally, I struggle with fear of failure.  I am a perfectionist by nature, as are [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>The Importance of Leading Your Future Today</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/04/12/the-importance-of-leading-your-future-today/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-importance-of-leading-your-future-today</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tayven James</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Leadership today requires much more than just doing your job with the people who you lead. It now involves your public persona.  This reality impacts your ability to influence with the global reach of the Internet. Things that you say and do are now are on display and can impact you, your role, and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Leadership today requires much more than just doing your job with the people who you lead. It now involves your public persona.  This reality impacts your ability to influence with the global reach of the Internet. Things that you say and do are now are on display and can impact you, your role, and the [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Want or Need? Rethink Your Recruitment Priorities</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/03/24/want-or-need-rethink-your-recruitment-priorities/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=want-or-need-rethink-your-recruitment-priorities</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edgar Wilson</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Before preparing a new job posting, recognize that the “ideal” candidate does not exist—yet. In trying to separate the good from the great, people like to start with perfection and list all the traits that make someone ‘ideal.’ The Difference Between Needs and Wants Whether it is describing the ideal mate, planning the perfect day, [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Before preparing a new job posting, recognize that the “ideal” candidate does not exist—yet. In trying to separate the good from the great, people like to start with perfection and list all the traits that make someone ‘ideal.’ The Difference Between Needs and Wants Whether it is describing the ideal mate, planning the perfect day, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Creating an Atmosphere of Collaboration</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/03/23/creating-an-atmosphere-of-collaboration/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=creating-an-atmosphere-of-collaboration</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Cochran</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[This past week, I had a project team meeting. The project had a number of people on it that I hadn’t worked with before. When the project began, we all had very divergent ideas on how we were going to accomplish our end goal. I’ve found over the years, that the less clear something is [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This past week, I had a project team meeting. The project had a number of people on it that I hadn’t worked with before. When the project began, we all had very divergent ideas on how we were going to accomplish our end goal. I’ve found over the years, that the less clear something is [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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