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- Category: Communication
- 6 Rules of Effective Communication in Difficult Conversations
- How to Defuse an Emotionally Charged Conversation
- How to Set Boundaries At Work
- How to Handle Negative Feedback From Team
- How to Reduce Communication Gaps at Work
- How To Disagree With Someone More Powerful Than You
- Recovering From an Emotional Outburst At Work
- How To Find a Sponsor Who Can Advocate For You
- How to Showcase Your Value Without Bragging
- How To Be More Likable At Work
- How to be Bold and Speak Up in Meetings
- How Leaders Can Get the Actionable Feedback They Need to Grow
- How to Create an Unforgettable Impact During Meetings
- Want to Get Hired? Here’s What You Need to Do to Land the Right Job
- 4 Powerful Mental Models to Build Empathy At Work
- How To Find a Mentor Who Can Accelerate Your Career
- Powerful Framework to Reduce Communication Gaps at Work
- How to Give the Most Effective Feedback to a Difficult Person
- 5 Questions to Ask Your Manager Every Month and 10X Your Impact
- How to Say No to Last Minute Requests
- Getting Angry at Work? Here’s How to Use Anger in More Positive Ways
- Not Getting Your Ideas Heard? Here’s How to Gain Support for Your Ideas
- How to Deal With Negative People Without Going Crazy
- 7 Strategies for Delivering Bad News to Boss, Build Your Credibility and Still Look Good
- Working With a Dominant Personality: I Didn’t Quit and You Shouldn’t Too
- What to Do When Your Employees are Fighting in the Workplace
- I Said No to My Boss and It Didn’t Work Out So Well for Me or Did It?
- Managing Conflict: Abandon Overconfidence And Engage In Rethinking Cycle
- The Right Way To Ask For Help At Work
- How To Use Criticism To Fuel Your Growth
- Managers, Do You Have A Language For Your Team?
- How Effective Listening Can Make You A Better Leader
- High Context Culture vs Low Context Culture: Communication Design For Avoiding Uncertainty
- Body Language In The Workplace: Art Of Effective Communication
- How To Start A Conversation: Get Beyond Small Talk To Forming Meaningful Connections At Work
- Agree To Disagree vs Disagree And Commit: How To Disagree The Right Way
- How To Deal With Difficult People
- Skip-Level Meetings: Uncovering Your Organisation’s Reality
- How To Opt Out Of The Drama Triangle And Take Responsibility
- Demystifying Negotiations: Powerful Tool To Transform Your Life
- Working With Cross Functional Teams: Master Effective Collaboration In The Workplace
- How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work in 5 Simple Steps
- First One-on-One Meeting: Build Strong Relationships
- Active Listening: Key to Effective Communication
- Category: Decisions
- 5 Habits of Master Thinkers
- What Gets in the Way of Clear Thinking?
- How to Stop Analysis Paralysis and Make More Confident Decisions
- How to Get Better at Risk Taking
- 5 Practices to Cultivate Mental Agility and Thrive in Uncertainty
- Is Quiet Quitting a Good Idea?
- The Most Powerful Decision-Making Razors
- Want to Communicate Effectively at Work? Eliminate these 5 Cognitive Distortions
- Want to Make Better Decisions? Avoid These 5 Cognitive Distortions
- Stuck on the Hedonic Treadmill? Here’s How to Escape It
- How to Bounce Back After Getting Laid Off
- 5 Practices to Shift from Scarcity to Abundance Mindset
- 8 Common Career Limiting Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
- Pluralistic Ignorance: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
- 7 Steps for Keeping Commitments at Work That Leads to Growth
- Ostrich Effect: Are You Avoiding Unpleasant Information?
- Incredible Power of Yet: Positive Intervention to Help Us See Straight
- How to Decide If a Company Is Right for You
- Avoiding Bad Decisions: Why We Make Bad Choices and How to Fight Back
- Strategies For Learning From Mistakes: How To Beat Self Justification And Think Clearly
- What Matters In Goals: Big Picture Thinking or The Nitty-Gritty?
- Learned Helplessness vs Learned Optimism: How To Train Your Brain To Be More Optimistic
- How To Use Self Reflection Triangles For Personal Growth
- Stop Being A People Pleaser: Don’t Let Reward And Punishment Drive Your Behaviour
- Availability Heuristic: Trade-Off Between Efficiency And Accuracy In Decision Process
- Decision Fatigue: Don’t Squeeze Out Every Bit Of Your Attention
- Sunk Cost Fallacy: Know When You Need To Pull The Plug
- Fundamental Attribution Error: Don’t Be Quick To Judge Your Team Members
- Hanlon’s Razor: How To Be Less Judgmental And Build Better Relationships
- Confirmation Bias: Going Beyond Our Personal Narrative
- Avoid GroupThink: 6 Effective Guardrails To Shape Decisions
- Second Order Thinking: Thinking Practice To Make Better Decisions
- Do You Really Want To Be A Manager?
- Inversion: Mental Model To Uncover New Possibilities
- Occam’s Razor: Problem Solving Principle To Create Simple Solutions
- First Principles Thinking: The Most Powerful Way To Think
- Saying No at Workplace: Framework to Make Right Decisions
- Category: Leadership
- Good Managers Don’t Make These Mistakes
- 4 Ways to Keep Your Ego in Check as a Leader
- 5 Causes of Underperforming Teams
- Ask These 10 Questions to Take a Fresh Look at Your Leadership Style
- How to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work
- How to Unleash Your Hidden Potential
- 6 Factors That Determine Whether You Will Succeed or Fail
- How to Lead Through Change
- How to Rise From Management to Leadership
- What To Do If Your Employee Isn’t Reaching Their Full Potential
- How To Stay Calm and Thrive Under Pressure
- 9 Powerful Behaviors of Highly Effective Leaders That Sets Them Apart
- Am I Ready To Be a Manager?
- 6 Micro Habits of Highly Effective Managers
- 5 Questions to Ask Your Managers Every Month to Help Them Grow as a Leader
- Want to be an Effective Manager? Build These 3 Skills
- Bridge the Confidence Gap: How to Build Confidence That Lasts
- 5 Excellent Habits of High Performing Teams
- Break Free From These 4 Leadership Thinking Traps
- These Thinking Errors are the Biggest Cause of Leadership Ineffectiveness
- How to Put People at the Center of Performance Reviews
- 5 Things I learned the Hard Way as a Manager of Managers
- How to Respond When an Employee Quits
- How to Assert Authority as a Young Manager
- How to Become an 80/20 Manager and Achieve Exceptional Results at Work
- Losing Trust As a Manager? Here’s How to Regain It
- “Don’t Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions” is Hurting Your Team
- Finding It Hard to Be Effective as a New Manager? Here’s How to Succeed
- 9 Questions Great Bosses Ask Themselves 
- These One-on-One Meeting Mistakes are Hurting Your Team
- High Agency: Quality that Sets Leaders Who Win From Those Who Whine Apart
- The Decision Tree: Alignment Model Leaders Need to Make Better Decisions
- How to Practice Self Care as a Manager
- How To Be Comfortable Giving Difficult Feedback
- Your Ignorance is Causing You to Fail as a Leader
- Workplace Stress is Costing You. Know How To Reduce It
- Challenges With Cross Functional Collaboration and What to Do About It
- Being on the Wrong Side of Authentic Leadership
- How Great Leaders Deal With Ambiguity
- How to Reclaim Your Freedom and Take Back Control of Your Life
- Becoming A Manager: 20 Principles To Learn and Lead
- Are You Getting The Feedback That You Need?
- Too Many Meetings At Work? Here’s How to Stop the Meeting Madness
- Failing to Succeed: Key to Success and Coping With Failure
- Embrace the Strategic Thinking Mindset: How to Develop Your Strategic Thinking Skills and Stay Ahead
- I Was Wrong About Burnout At Work and You are Probably Too
- Bounce Back: How to Help Your Team Fail Fast and Be Resilient At Work
- Leadership Anxiety: How to Lead When You Feel It
- The Fine Balance Between Caring for People and Holding them Accountable at Work
- Disney Chairman Robert Iger’s Lessons For Great Leadership
- Culture of an Organization: Subtle Culture Problems That Often Go Unnoticed
- Leading With Trust: 4 Effective Ways to Build Trust as a Leader
- 8 Powerful Behaviors to Stand Out at Work
- How to Delegate Work Effectively: 5 Steps to Let Go of Control and Start Doing More
- Are You Contributing to a Toxic Work Environment Without Realizing It?
- How to Tell an Employee They Are Not Ready for a Promotion
- How To Promote a Growth Mindset in the Workplace
- Are You Ready for a Leadership Position?
- Bad Managers: What Not to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- Confident Humility: Paradox of Successful Leadership
- How To Give Feedback That Matters: Art of Constructive Criticism And Positive Feedback
- Leadership Is About Growth, Not Brilliance
- If You Dare To Lead, Lead With Vulnerability
- High Performers: 7 Proactive Steps To Lead Them To Excellence
- Leadership Qualities: 21 Leadership Traits That Define Great Leaders
- Thinking Big: Mental Practice To Achieve Success
- One-On-One Meetings: How Great Managers Navigate The Path To Employee’s Ultimate Success
- Empowering Teams: To High Performance And Excellence
- Peter Principle And The Surprising Truth About Promotions
- Leading With Open Ended Questions: Giving Advice To Gaining Insight
- Strategy vs Tactics: How Strategic Thinking And Tactical Planning Belong Together
- 11 Mistakes To Avoid During Your First 30 Days As A New Manager
- Fear-Based Leadership: 9 Signs You Are Leading From Fear
- Navigating Friction Across The Different Stages Of Team Development
- 10 Ways To Lead Through A Crisis
- How To Create Feedback Rich Environment
- Basic Building Blocks To Be A Successful Engineering Manager
- How To Setup Consistent Repeatable Interview Process In 4 Simple Steps
- Effectiveness vs Efficiency: Why Successful Leaders Need Both
- Leadership Blind Spots: 7 Remarkable Ways To Turn Them To Strengths
- Manifesto To Flexibility In The Workplace
- Category: Management
- Category: MentalModels
- Category: Personal Development
- 5 Skills To Excel In Your Career
- How to Stop Procrastinating and Get Down to Work
- How Not to Take Things Personally At Work
- How to Make the Most of Your Todo List
- How to Build Credibility at Work
- Master These 5 Behaviors to be an Impact Player
- 4 Shifts in Behavior To Be Mentally Healthy At Work
- Bad Advice for Imposter Syndrome
- How to Deal With a Bad Day at Work
- Struggling To Be Productive? Use These 3 Productivity Frameworks To Get Real Work Done
- What to Do If Your Manager Isn’t Paying Attention
- Fake It Till You Make It: Good Advice or a Setup for failure?
- 7 Effective Practices to Onboard Yourself in Your New Job
- Are You Keeping Busy or Being Productive?
- Instead of Those Lofty Goals, Go After the Small Wins
- How To Create A Thriving Relationship With Your Manager
- What Type of Imposter Are You?
- Progress Not Passion is the Answer to Loving the Work You Do
- Navigating Office Politics: 5 Powerful Steps to Get Ahead Without Playing Dirty
- We Need to Talk: The Science of Productive Role Conflict
- Performing Under Pressure: 5 Mental Tricks to Do Your Best When It Matters Most
- Goal Setting: Get a Clear Fix on Where You Want to Go
- How To Make Work Life Balance Work
- 5 Emotionally Intelligent Habits For Handling Frustration At Work
- How To Stay Focussed And Manage Distractions
- Put Your Motivation Flywheel To Action
- 5 Strategies To Stop Overthinking And Start Acting
- Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset: How To Shift To A Path Of Learning And Growth
- Productivity: 14 Simple Ways To Be More Productive Everyday
- Why Imposter Syndrome Isn’t Bad: How to Conquer Self-Doubt
- Eisenhower Matrix: How to Prioritise and Master Productivity
- Breaking The Barriers To Self Directed Learning
- Category: Productivity