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Cathleen Clerkin Archives - Ideas for Leaders

Jumping to Conclusions and Other Bad Thinking Habits Hurt Leadership Effectiveness

Photo by Manan Chhabra on Unsplash

Your thoughts and feelings impact how you interpret what is happening around you. You might, for example, receive a vague email from your boss asking for a meeting. For hours, you stress about why he or she wants a meeting, imagining a variety of worst-case scenarios. In the end, the meeting is rather innocuous—no big […]

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Address Physical, Mental, Emotional and Social Resilience to Improve Performance and Engagement

Athletes at a gym. Attributed to Euphronios, 6th Century (Courtesy: Wellcome Collection)

Resilience is the ability to adaptively respond to challenges and avoid the burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed that can damage the well-being, health and performance of leaders and employees. Improving resilience in an organization leads to higher feelings of engagement, less burnout, less stress, less conflict, and overall higher performance. Based on decades of […]

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