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Onboarding: How to Welcome New Employees to Your Team
Onboarding sets the tone for your organization. Use these five suggestions to ensure you’re setting up new team members for success.
Conflict Resolution in Leadership
As much as we try to ignore or prevent conflict as to not cultivate emotions such as anger and hostility in the workplace, conflict is an inevitable part of life. When there is conflict among employees, the responsibility to resolve it mainly falls to the leader.
3 Kinds of Apps That Will Win You Back Your Day
50/50 Leadership suggests several kinds of apps you can use to be more efficient and productive, thereby saving yourself huge amount of time in the long run.
Staying True to Your Goals
When there is a lack of motivation, people turn to setting goals. This process generates inspiration as well as a sense of productivity. While setting goals is not actually tackling them, it is certainly one step closer to reaching the finish line.
Why There Needs to Be More Women in Finance
In the '60s, America's second wave of feminism spurred more women to join the workforce, and they've been inching up the corporate ladder ever since. In fact, more women run Fortune 500 companies today than at any other point in history. But these kinds of developments remain isolated cases.
The Importance of Saying No
Agreeing to others’ requests is often tempting, but saying no is key to setting boundaries and gaining respect.
Education Never Stops: The Value of Fostering a Learning Environment in the Workplace
Learning extends far beyond the compulsory years of education as a youth.
Relatability: The Leadership Trait Everyone Forgets
Don’t confuse being relatable with the need to be likable.
The Dangers of Collaboration
Collaboration, the latest workplace trend, can be very beneficial. However, every leader must beware of three dangers that can stifle creativity during group work.
Broadening Our Scope of Leadership
When we think of a leader, we might picture someone fearlessly leading their team of workers to achieve a certain task, relentlessly driven to succeed in the workplace. But that’s only one definition of a leader. In actuality, it’s much bigger than that.
A Day in the Life of an Intern
The 50/50 Marketing Team Meetings have also been a safe space for me to share my ideas regarding the graphics I am working on.
Creativity in Entreprenership
When we talk about entrepreneurship, we often think of characteristics such as vision, confidence, and decision-making; however, people forget the prominent role that creativity can play.
Spiritual Women: Female Religious Leadership
Women have held roles in religion for as long as it has existed, but they are rarely able to become leaders in their places of worship. With the rise of feminism, women have broken into positions of guidance in spirituality, even if it is a slow process.
Be a Positive Leader
Leaders need to understand negative interactions and the damage they are causing when they do offset them with positive interactions.
Empathy Has Never Been More Necessary in Leadership
When we hear about leadership, we think of the stereotypical aspects, such as assertiveness, influence, and courage. However, many leaders lack one of the most important traits, the one that separates a good leader from a great one: empathy.
A Short History of Feminism
Feminism has existed in different ways for hundreds of years, and captured here is only a small look at the voices through which women’s rights have spoken over time.
Listening and the Three Mountain Tasks
Leaders listen to understand the point of view of others. It’s egocentric to have any other goal. Join Andrew as he examines egocentrism and Jean Piaget’s famous social experiment “Three Mountains Task”.