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Emotions as Barriers to Listening

Negative and positive emotions

You're wired to listen selectively for the information you expect or want. As a result, your emotions affect how and what you hear. This applies to negative emotions – for example, when you're down, you hear the blues, and when you feel threatened, you're more likely to hear attacks. But it also applies to positive emotions, like happiness and enthusiasm.

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Succeeding as a First-time Manager

It may sound harsh, but as a first-time manager, you'll make mistakes. Studying some of the mistakes commonly made by new managers will help you learn through the experience of others and avoid similar issues.

New managers tend to make three common mistakes: taking on too much, not asking for help, and projecting a lack of confidence.

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Overcoming postpone behavior

Being careful about decisions isn't a bad thing. In fact, it's responsible to consider the consequences of your actions. But at work, you're part of a social infrastructure – connected in some way to everyone else in the organization. And the inability or reluctance of procrastinators to make timely decisions can seriously affect your ability to do your job. It's human nature to avoid or put off completing work from time to time.

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Creating Your Own Leadership Development Plan

In the first stage of creating a leadership development plan, you assess yourself and your environment, establish your vision, and plan to overcome obstacles. In the second stage, you determine how to achieve your vision. To do this, you'll need to set goals, objectives, and actions.

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American Communication Style

What is the importance of communication in the workplace? People in organizations spend over 70% of their time interacting with others, either directly – in private or in meetings – or by phone and e-mail. Effective communication is therefore vital to "getting things done." When communicating across cultures, it can be even more important to communicate clearly because the intended message can sometimes be distorted by each party's "cultural filters."

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How to think Outside the Box

The psychological terms restructuring and functional fixedness are relevant to how the creative process works, and can be applied to creative thinking. Restructuring means reorganizing or restructuring a problem to find a solution. Functional fixedness occurs when, as the idea originator, you become restricted by the demands of the task, or other constraints or norms. This functional fixedness means that you have difficulty reconceptualizing the problem to find a solution.

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10 Key Steps for Effective Time Management

So much to do, and so little time in which to do it. Is that how you feel? You'll probably find yourself agreeing with management guru, Peter Drucker. He said: "Time is the scarcest resource... Unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." Planning the best use of time is a vital management skill.

Good time planning will:

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