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Managing Up, Leadership, Trust & Vulnerability Katie Ceccarini Managing Up, Leadership, Trust & Vulnerability Katie Ceccarini

How to Manage Up to Receive More Trust & Transparency

Trust and transparency - two qualities we want to feel and receive from our leaders. But how do we manage up to get more?

Today I'm sharing 4 tactics to help you receive more trust and transparency from your own leader.

And as a bonus, if you're on the job hunt, I've included 3 sample interview questions to help you dig into their culture of trust and transparency.

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Employee Retention Katie Ceccarini Employee Retention Katie Ceccarini

Why motivation is the wrong goal

What if you stopped trying so hard to motivate your people? And instead, you focused on improving their engagement. There’s an argument to be made that seeking to supply an endless stream of motivation is the wrong goal. Read more on how you can increase engagement with your people.

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Manager Development, Leadership Katie Ceccarini Manager Development, Leadership Katie Ceccarini

10 Keys To Impactful Management & Leadership

What it takes to be a high impact manager and leader is not a mystery. And when you combine the nuances of working with humans with the need to deliver business results, we can lose track of what it takes to be an impactful people leader.

These 10 Keys To Impactful Management & Leadership are meant to serve as a cheat sheet and a way to recenter yourself on what we know works.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

3 Steps To Make Difficult Conversations Less Difficult

What makes difficult conversations difficult is that our mind tells us they’re difficult. But if you found a way for these to be less difficult, your stress would go down and your results would go up.

Your inner game drives your outer game. And that’s why I’m sharing 3 steps to get you on your way to having these conversations feel less diffcult.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

2 Ways To Lead With Vision During Change

During change, people are hungry for vision. Rather than waiting on your leadership team to communicate an updated vision, you have an opportunity to step in and more powerfully lead your own team with vision.

Learn 2 tactics to lead with stronger vision during change.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

The Change Management Tactic Most Of Us Miss

When people are struggling to adapt to change, managers and leaders tend to beat a dead horse with “The Why.”

There’s a better way. Resistance to change comes from fear, a sense of loss, and a change to the way we perceive ourselves.

Learn 3 steps to effectively address emotions to improve your overall change management.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

How To Leverage Advocates To Turn Influence Into A Team Sport

A key with organizational influence is you can not do it alone. And it’s not enough to have supporters, you need Advocates.

Learn 3 tactics and 2 pro tips to accelerate the way you’re leveraging Advocates to influence without your organization.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

Influencing Without Authority Starts With Expertise

Welcome to a 3 part series dedicating to helping you strengthen your organizational influence. Influencing without authority is possible. And in this series, I break down 3 foundational elements that enable you to drive meaningful change.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

How To Address Under Performance

Under performance happens, AND it doesn’t have to take 12 months to manage someone out. Dive into the 3 levels of feedback conversations that enable you to more successfully address performance issues. As a bonus, I’m not only sharing sample language, I’m also providing a resource for stronger documentation.

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Katie Ceccarini Katie Ceccarini

Increase Your Management Endurance

Management is an endurance sport. It’s not a sprint and it requires deliberate training, development, and focus.

There are 5 qualities to help you step into being an Endurance Boss. Check out what they are and use the questions for deliberate reflection to make moves in your own management and leadership game.

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