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When Success Hurts – The True Story of Women at the Top
- March 14, 2023
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Uncategorized
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Fifty-five percent of senior level women in a recent study reported feeling lonely in their jobs at least once in the last month.
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What’s Love Got To Do With It [Leadership]?
- February 12, 2023
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Uncategorized
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Debunking the Superwoman Myth – Lessons from Jacinda Ardern
- January 22, 2023
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: emotional courage, Gender, Leadership
Alicia Keys got it wrong. Jacinda Ardern got it right. You’re not a superwoman!
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5 Reasons Why You Should Be Focusing on Psychological Safety
- November 21, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Uncategorized
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Is Your Company Training and Appraising Managers Correctly?
- November 8, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: ADKAR, Business, Management Performance
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How Do You Prefer Your HR – Strategic or Operational?
- October 22, 2022
- Posted by: utdsinc
- Categories: Business, change, human resource management
How do you prefer your HR – operational or strategic? Click on the link below for some insights into this riddle.
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5 Common Training Mistakes and How to Fix Them
- October 9, 2022
- Posted by: utdsinc
- Categories: Business, human resource management, Training
Training often gets a bad wrap. That doesn’t have to be the case. This article identifies five common mistakes and outlines how to avoid and/or fix them.
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How to Reimagine HR – 4 Essential Shifts
- September 25, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: human resource management
Whether you are an HR practitioner, line staff, manager or executive, the shifts described in this article will affect you. So, I invite you to have a read.
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5 Things You Need to Know About Quiet Quitting
- September 9, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Leadership
Reality check – quiet quitting has nothing to do with actual quitting. Despite the epic fail in name selection, the phenomenon should not be ignored.
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HOW TO TRANSFORM POTENTIAL TO GREATNESS
- July 22, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Leadership, Management Performance
Greatness isn’t born; it’s grown. That’s true even when on the surface, it looks like someone has achieved overnight success. The good news is that this means that you too can achieve greatness – if you’re prepared to do the work.
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Back to Office Mandates – Is This Really What Your People Want?
- June 14, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, change, Innovation, Leadership, People
Post-pandemic work arrangements are proving to be a Goldilocks dilemma. What exactly do workers want or need?
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Caribbean Pride And Leadership – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley
- May 24, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Leadership, People
With the power of conviction on her side and her fierce determination to be the best possible advocate for her people and her principles, Prime Minister Mia Mottley is having a global impact.
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#Break the Bias – International Women’s Day 2022
- March 7, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Gender, Leadership
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WANT PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? THIS IS HOW YOU GET IT!
- February 8, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, change, Innovation, Leadership
There is a compelling theory of change for psychological safety. So why haven’t more leaders adopted it?
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Hang in There With Purpose, Faith and Hope
- April 25, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance, People
What’s the best course of action when it feels like you’re going through hell? Keep moving! Build yourself a bridge using purpose, faith and hope.
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Millennial Workers – Myths and Insights
- April 25, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Leadership, Management Performance, People
Millennials now occupy managerial positions, and they’re pretty ambivalent about that. As one female executive put it, “we feel like kids with adult jobs.”
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Four Steps to Master a New Skill
- May 9, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance, People
Any journey of learning and development can be an emotional rollercoaster. With these four steps, you can effectively navigate that treacherous terrain.
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Business Coaching – It Makes Dollars and Sense
- April 10, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance
Whether you’re the head of the organization, or a supervisor/manager with responsibility for a major department or a member of line staff, coaching is something that you should be thinking about.
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How to Overcome Self-Sabotage
- March 22, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance
“I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.” Can you relate to that statement?
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: Three Essential Nuggets to Help Manage Your Boss
- March 7, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance
One of the keys to success is establishing mutual respect in your relationship with your boss. This article outlines three nuggets to help you do just that.
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: Make Difficult People Disappear
- February 23, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance
Learn how to make difficult people disappear – legally.
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: 5 Step Action Plan to Jumpstart a Stalled Career
- February 15, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, Management Performance
This 5 step plan could be just what you need to redesign the job you’re in into the one you want.
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: Getting Others to Say YES
- January 26, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Leadership, Management Performance, Negotiation
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: Don’t Stop Until You’re DONE
- June 26, 2023
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: Don’t Stop Until You’re DONE
- January 8, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership
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THE MANAGER LEVEL UP: How To Take Management Performance To The Next Level
- January 1, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership
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Achieve Your Full Managerial Potential – #TheManagerLevelUP
- November 7, 2020
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Uncategorized
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Do Strong Leaders Always Provide Strong Political Leadership?
- February 19, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Governance, Leadership, People
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Learn How To GROW Your Talent and Unleash Potential With Performance Coaching
- June 27, 2022
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, People
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Business Coaching : Building the Relationship
- November 6, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership
For a coaching relationship to be optimally effective, rapport must exist between the coach and the coachee. This article provides the concrete steps required to establish and maintain such a bond.
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Business Coaching 101 – Decoding the Fundamentals
- November 6, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Coaching, Leadership, People
From Fortune 500 companies to individual managers and executives, all are reporting outstanding returns on investment. In this article we explain what exactly business coaching is and, perhaps more importantly, what it isn’t.
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The Paradox of Women being a Minority in Leadership Positions
- October 8, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Categories: Business, Gender, Governance, Leadership, People
While there have been some gains in terms of the prevalence of women in leadership over the past 5 years, it hasn’t been a clear win.
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Ensure That Your Leadership Is Perennial And Not Seasonal
- October 23, 2021
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Leadership
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It’s Time to Get LOUD 📢
- March 28, 2023
- Posted by: Joan H. Underwood
- Category: Uncategorized