Embracing vulnerability as a strength rather than a weakness is more important than ever in our current times. Showing vulnerability is difficult for everyone, but allowing yourself to be more vulnerable is the best way to build strong relationships. When you can open yourself up to others they are more inclined to return the favor,…
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Vulnerability: The New Leadership
When you hear the word vulnerability the words that tend to come to mind are likened to weakness, shortcoming, flaw. Chances are the last word you might associate with vulnerability is leadership. Instead, we tend to associate leadership in terms of confidence, charisma, strength, power. What you might find surprising is that vulnerability can lead…
5 Soft Skills for Leadership Success
These days, it is quite easy to train yourself in hard skills. Accessible, post-secondary education and sites like Lynda.com and YouTube have made it possible for nearly everyone to gain quantifiable skills related to every field of work. So how does one stand out from the highly-educated crowd and prove worthiness for a leadership role? …
Cognitive Biases That Impede Decision-Making
We will often find ourselves making decisions and plans based on past experiences. Whether or not our predicted outcomes are logical or reasonable, we hold on to them because we have built ourselves a system of beliefs that we are convinced are true, and can only lead to one possible result. In some cases, these…