1 Outstanding App For Team-Building Activities

In the workplace, every single person, from the leaders to the team members, is different…

Each person comes with a different personality, different values and different levels of soft skills.

Companies and leaders often seek solutions like team-building to remove tension between people, to take the edge off, to smoothen processes and to increase productivity.

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Because team-building activities can be expensive, demanding, time-consuming and feel like a chore to most, The Go Game App provides new ways and customizable solutions to build up your team.

The Go Game is an application that promotes professional effectiveness, connects your team and somehow entertains your team using real world surroundings.

Even if you and your team don’t see yourself hanging with your each other and other coworkers after hours, The Go Game leverages their virtual event platform to provide:

  • Virtual events.
  • In person events.
  • Hybrid events, bringing together in person teams and remote teams.

Events can be as short as 1 hour for virtual events and 3 hours for in person events.

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4 Best Recruitment Apps For Leaders

It’s time to hire a new employee…

Finally, you realize that you need a hand and you have the budget to hire someone.

However, you don’t know where to start, where to look and who to look for.

No need to go to a recruitment agency.

There are a few leadership apps that can ease your life during the recrutement process and help you make a confident decision.

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1. BreezyHR

BreezyHR is a hiring platform that helps you make better hiring decisions,

With BreezyHR, you can attract, engage, manage and review the right candidates seamlessly in one place with custom questionnaires, automated interview scheduling, email & SMS messaging.

You can publish the job description and can start recruiting conversations directly on BreezyHR hiring platform.

You will then be able to recognize the best applicants at a glance with convenient, structured feedback.

2. 20NINE

20NINE is specific to hiring internationally and allows you to build, manage, and retain an
international team easily and efficiently, with professional liability.
With 20NINE, you will be able to create your candidate database, import candidates from LinkedIn, send personal mass emails and add candidates to call lists.
In addition, you will be able to tag candidates with the right skills and experiences to easily find suitable profiles.

3. Workable

Workable is a recruiting software that centralizes the recruitment process in one location, reduces the timeframe of the hiring process for the candidates and for the recruiter.

Workable takes advantage the fast-moving hiring market and hiring pool, allows you to measure the recruitment initiatives and to focus on what matters.

4. Oyster

Oyster is a global employment platform designed to enable visionary HR leaders to find, engage, pay, manage, develop and take care of a thriving global workforce.

You can source out the applicants from all over the world and focus on building a brilliant global team.

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32 Leadership Lessons To Stay Sharp

Staying Sharp implies staying ready, staying on top of things, being effective all while creating memorable experiences…

Leaders who stay sharp continually push themselves to do better and to live better.

Wondering what leaders can do to stay sharp?

Below are 32 lessons for leaders to learn how to stay sharp.

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1. Remember God.

2. Protect your emotional, physical and mental health.

3. Value who you are and what you have.

4. Embrace solitude: the best company you can find is your own.

5. Live in the present.

6. Avoid worrying about the future and what others think of you.

7. Avoid competing and comparing yourself to others.

8. Make time for what is important.

9. Take time for self-reflection, to focus on yourself and to take care of yourself.

10. Start making decisions on your own term.

11. Avoid procrastinating and go after what you want because life is too short. The best time to start is now!

12. Don’t take yourself too seriously.

13. Learn as much as you can and leverage that knowledge for career advancement.

14. Challenge your own knowledge.

15. Develop critical thinking and do your own research.

16. Become emotionally disciplined. We cannot control what happens to us but we can control how we react to it.

17. Stay positive. We cannot predict the future but we can always hope for the best.

18. Stay in environments that will value you.

19. Don’t make your life more complicated than people want to make it.

20. Realize that there is more to life than work.

21. Find little ways to improve your life.

22. Enjoy every single moment in life.

23. Laugh when you can.

24. Everything is temporary. Whatever you are going through, it will pass.

25. Turn down things that you hate and that don’t add any value to your life.

26. Pay attention to people’s actions because actions speaks louder than words.

27. Treat everybody differently. Everybody is different and everybody learns at their own rate.

28. Choose your friends wisely and avoid taking anyone for granted.

29. Don’t let people define you.

30. Repair something broken that you care about.

31. Do something unfamiliar.

32. Do something that overwhelmed you in the past.

Last words of advice!

Keeping your mind sharp is a great way to make every day count!

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5 Essential Skills To Teach Effectively

Sometimes, as a leader, you may have to teach something, share your knowledge or go and learn something yourself…

Effective teaching is required when leaders interact with their team, want to share useful ideas with their team or wish to increase overall expertise.

Below are five essentials skills to acquire to teach effectively.

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Quiet : The Power Of Introverts In A World That Cant Stop Talking By Susan Cain

In the American Culture, leadership is often equated with hyperextroversion and an emphasis is placed on personality, charm, and charisma.

On one hand, people feel a constant urge to fit into the extroversion mould, to develop an extroverted personality and feel pressured to always project confidence.

On the other, introverts have become the ugly step-children.

Basically, the American Culture promotes an Extrovert Ideal when several temperaments exist, are valuable and needed in Society.

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Many “people, especially those in leadership roles, engage in a certain level of pretend-extroversion”.

1. The birth of the Extrovert Ideal

The Extrovert Ideal is “the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight”.

The Extrovert Ideal was born when public speaking became a must have skill in the beginning of the 20th century.

The American Culture swiftly shifted from a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality.

Hence, people started focusing on the way they presented themselves, on making a good first impression, on appearance, on selling themselves well all the time.

They then transformed themselves into personae, performers, sales men and women and became fascinated with movie stars.

2. The Introverted temperament

Extroversion and introversion are extreme temperaments that are said to be inherited.

Most people exhibit behaviors along that spectrum depending on the circumstances: no one is fully an introvert or an extrovert all the time.
The most common misconception about these temperaments is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro social.

The reality is that introverts are quickly overly stimulated, the said stimulation is exhausting and that they need downtime to recharge from socializing.

Furthermore, introverts are creative, tend to work alone, to value solitude because “solitude can be a catalyst to innovation“; it is vital to their creativity and allows them to deliberately practice.

At their core, introverts observe society rather than participate in society because participating requires too much mental multitasking.

In addition, they:

  • are highly reactive,
  • are listeners more than talkers,
  • ask questions like “What if?”,
  • rather quality over quantity,
  • avoid conflict most of the time,
  • avoid group activities,
  • are non competitive,
  • “welcome the chance to communicate digitally”.

Even with opposite temperaments, introverts and extroverts are often drawn to each other and get along.

The Introvert Success

Should they act out of character or stretch themselves in order to be who they want to be? Can introverts succeed without altering themselves?

Most introverts know how to act out of character and fake extroversion to some extent.

Some introverts fake extroversion to survive, to fit in and succeed.
Others have fooled themselves into thinking that they are extroverts, have taken on a role that is expected of them or their job, feel obliged to serve up a persona.

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The truth is that introverts can act out of character rather convincingly, should act out of character if it is vital or if they are deeply attached to their objectives but cannot and shouldn’t act out for too long.

Acting out of character for too long can result in burnout and health problems.

To succeed without altering themselves, some introverts focus on core personal projects that are important to them.

To identify their core personal projects, introverts:

  • Think about what they wanted to be when they were children.
  • Assess the type of work they generally gravitate to.
  • Observe the people and things that they envy.

Furthermore, introverts understand that certain social situations can be intimidating.

Therefore, in order to remain calm and confident, they adopt the same behavior and facial expression as if you were calm and confident.

They also take regular breaks alone where they need to restore, recharge and be themselves.

Introverts may have to cut an agreement with themselves: they socialize and act out of character as much as they want to or as much as they are comfortable to just as long as they take the time to recharge.

Review

In Quiet : The Power Of Introverts In A World That Cant Stop Talking, in an almost autobiographic writing style, Susan Cain puts a positive spin on the term “quiet”, reflects on the place of introversion in the American society and seeks to understand the Extrovert Ideal.

Susan Cain objectively describes her personal experience as an introvert and adopts a scientific approach to depicting the difference between introversion and extroversion.

In The American and Western society, there is an obsession and an urge to develop an extroverted personality.
Indeed, leadership is often equated to hyperextroversion and most of our institutions are organized to favor extroversion, value open spaces, transparency, team-work, and competition to the detriment of quiet leadership, creativity, solitude, alone time, introversion are not well seen

So throughout her research and her journey of self-discovery, Susan Cain goes through her own experience, childhood memories to find explanation and insights into her introversion and answers the following questions: Should introverts alter themselves to succeed? To what degree should they stretch themselves?

The answer lies somewhere between you can act out but you shouldn’t act out for too long.

Let me know below what you think about this book!

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Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts—which means that we’ve lost sight of who we really are.

We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight. The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risktaking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong. […] We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual—the kind who’s comfortable “putting himself out there.” […]

Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

‘Here everyone knows that it’s important to be an extrovert and troublesome to be an introvert. So people work real hard at looking like extroverts, whether that’s comfortable or not. It’s like making sure you drink the same single-malt scotch the CEO drinks and that you work out at the right health club.’

They welcome the chance to communicate digitally. The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly

many people, especially those in leadership roles, engage in a certain level of pretend-extroversion.

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8 Ways Travelling Improves Your Leadership

I tend to travel at moments when everything in my life are chaotic or going down hill…

Why? Because I gain better perspective when I push my boundaries and step outside my personal situation.
Travelling can indeed be a wonderful and unique experience.

It can also be a way to increase your leadership, change your mindset, improve your self-awareness and discover better principles.

Wondering how can travelling make you a better leader?

There are a lot of positive effects to travelling.

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1. You discover yourself

When you travel, nobody really knows you so you are free to try and embody new versions of yourself.

That is because by travelling, you remove yourself from the pressures of society and from the expectations that your parents or circle have placed on you.

You find ways to become a better leader for yourself and your team.

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. - Henry Miller Click To Tweet

2. You renew your mind

You change your perspective, gain more clarity and start thinking differently.

Indeed, travelling quiets the negative voices in your head and rewires your brain.

Travelling is an opportunity to go into deep introspection, to discipline yourself, to challenge your beliefs and assumptions, and redefine your values and priorities.

You are too absorbed by the new environments to stay stuck in the past, anxious about the future, or stuck in your head.

3. You get out of your comfort zone

One of my favorite things about travelling is taking risks and getting out of your comfort zone. It requires a lot of confidence and a taste for the unknown.

It gives you the opportunity to try new things and try out different versions of themselves.

Not everybody has the opportunity to travel. To be kind to your wallet, you can travel to the city next door.

4. You build up self-confidence

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. - Matthew Karsten Click To Tweet

When I travel, I don’t like making plans in general.

I rather wander, roam through the streets and get lost so I can ask people my way back, practice a different language, find hidden treasures and test my ability to be resourceful.

Getting lost and finding my way back gives me more confidence in my abilities to successfully take care of myself. I can then return home with the conviction that I can solve anything I put my mind to.

5. You get healed

Travelling provides healing for your entire being and reminds you that there is still beauty in the world.

  • You acquire the opportunity to get to know yourself better, to try different things, to get out of your attributed role.
  • You become present and aware of your surroundings.
  • You listen to yourself more and get in touch with your intuition.
  • You treasure your experiences more than material things. Your positive memories will help you overcome difficult times.

6. You balance your work and life

Leaders don’t always have time to relax and travel as much as they would want to. Travelling improves your work-life balance because:

  • You don’t have to worry so much about work and your coworkers.
  • You remove yourself from toxicity and enjoy people who enjoy you.
  • You break from your routine and from zombie mode.
  • You take a well deserved break from your drama.
  • You recenter yourself and you realize that we are all human beings.
You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. - Daranna Gidel Click To Tweet

7. You develop cultural sensitivity

Through my years of travel, I have seen people travelling so they could feel superior and turn their nose up at people from different cultures who live their lives differently.

They basically use travelling as a way to validate their beliefs of superiority.

The reality is travelling is a way to open your mind and experience new cultures.

  • You gain more knowledge.
  • You become less judgmental.
  • You become culturally sensitive.
  • You may find where you truly belong.
  • You understand that different is good.
  • You believe that everything or everyone has their qualities and their flaws.
  • You acknowledge that most people don’t fall under all the stereotypes.
When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. - Clint Borgen Click To Tweet

8. You grow social Skills

Travelling increases your curiosity, creativity and social skills.

You meet interesting people on your journey who speak different languages but who have the same life experiences and the same intentions.

Beyond the language barrier, you become self-reliant, you value people and make an effort to understand other people.

Last Words Of Advice!

Try travelling alone if you can.

When you travel alone, you make your own decisions, you learn yourself, you are responsible for yourself and you do what you want.

Finally, you learn to value yourself and enjoy yourself alone.

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30 Affirmations For Leaders After A Long Day

Some days, you achieve your goals and do everything that you want to do and an actual long day seems short…

Other days, you’ve given your best or you just have nothing to give. You feel like you’ve put in work but the day seems long and unproductive.

Other times, it’s have a hard time separating yourself from work.

In these moments, what you say to yourself can make you, break you, jump-start your day or end your day.

Wondering what are the best affirmations after a long day?

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1. I let go of any accumulated stress.

2. I release this day.

3. I release any negative self-talk and beliefs.

4. I leave work at work.

5. Tomorrow is a new day.

6. Everyday is a new opportunity to succeed.

7. The solution will show up tomorrow.

8. I will not take anything personally.

9. I will not overwork myself.

10. I have given it my all.

11. I have put my best foot forward today.

12. I do my best every day.

13. I am open to learn.

14. I live in the present and look forward to my future.

15. I can do anything I set my mind to.

16. I am excited for tomorrow.

17. Rome was not built in one day.

18. I focus on what I can control.

19. I see obstacles as challenges and failures as an opportunity to grow.

20. I possess the knowledge to achieve my goal.

21. I trust myself and my abilities.

22. I make good use of my time.

23. I am in full control of my life.

24. I am my best asset.

25. I am allowed to rest.

26. I am allowed to recharge.

27. I make progress one step at a time.

28. I am proud of the progress that we have made so far.

29. I forgive myself for what I was not able to do today.

30. I forgive others for what they were not able to do today.

Last Words Of Advice!

What you allow in your mind can affirm you or negate you, especially after a long day.
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12 Things You Will Learn After Using Monday.com

Since 2020, the way we work has changed.

The way we want to go to work and our need to maintain a healthy work life balance has been solidified by the pandemic.

We require to work remotely.

We require to work somewhere that we believe in.

We require to work in a way that suits us and that allows better productivity.

However, companies are not always too comfortable with giving away all that autonomy and freedom to their teams.

Monday.com is a visual collaborative tool that help leaders and their teams increase productivity.

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1. There are learning opportunities everywhere

Everyone is learning new ways to approach their work life and life itself.

With Monday.com, leaders and their teams can connect, build better trust and increase work productivity, even from a distance.

2. Anything can be solved with good organization

With Monday.com, I am able to centralize my work and my tools in one place.

I am also able to handle my projects from beginning to end.

3. Keep the work flowing

I get to collaborate at a distance and shape the workflow the way I want.

4. Delegate task

With Monday.com, I get to let go of some control and empower the team by delegating tasks.

5. See the bigger picture

This user-friendly tool allows me to shift perspective.

If you are in a difficult situation, you’ll be able to take a step back, get yourself together and revisit your plan.

6. Take a break from office politics

Office politics can be overwhelming.

They can take a toll on you and follow you home.

With Monday.com, take a breath and almost adhere more to a laissez-faire leadership style

7. Working remotely

Collaborative tools such as Monday.com, allow people to choose their hours as long as they pull their weight and to work at their own pace.

8. Track my performance

If you are like, you enjoy getting an overview of your progress and tracking your progress.

Then this app is made for you and cuts down your time computing KPI and numbers.

9. Track team performance

Every team member will want to show that they can do their jobs.

You will be able to see who is bitting off more than they can chew and not doing enough, not working in their area of strength.

10. Identify strength and weaknesses

You’ll be able to pay attention to the strengths and weaknesses of my teams, what they choose to focus on and their performances.

11. Identify blindspots

Monday.com sets you up to win.

Get to identify blindspots with the summary of tasks done and to do.

12. Get purposeful

You’ll get to focus on the essentials and make meetings more meaningful.

How about scaling up your business with the extra time.

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5 Ways To Turn Yourself Into An Emotionally Strong Leader

Strong leaders constantly evaluate themselves, check their emotional status, practice self-discipline and maintain their cool no matter what…

Leaders cannot overcome hurdles, make tough decisions and eventually experience positive events if they are not emotionally strong.

Wondering how to become an emotionally strong leader?

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1. Understand that your emotions are useful

Your emotions are there to guide you through life and not superimpose over your life because life is more than your emotions. Of course, you have relationships you care about, a purpose in life, passions and goals.

Good or bad, positive or negative, your emotions are useful and shouldn’t control your life.

Being able to gain control over your emotions is all about recognizing which emotion you are dealing with, acquiring self-awareness, engaging in positive self-talk and forging positive habits.

2. Acknowledge that everybody has problems

Everybody has problems and is a part of life. You just have to face them sooner or later.

The truth is there isn’t a person in this world who is problem free. There are just some people who are able to handle them and others who aren’t.

Emotionally strong leaders are solution-oriented and understand that problems actually build character, experience, grit and stamina.

3. Learn from your failures

There is always a lesson that can be learnt from your failures.

That is why there is no need to dwell on the past, but mental muscles are built through adversity and more lessons are learnt from failures than from success.

4. Realize that your mind can adapt to just about anything

Whatever you are going through, however uncomfortable you may feel, emotionally strong leaders don’t run away from their problems.

After a while, you will grow, get out of your comfort zone and your mind will simply adjust to your circumstances.

Adaptable leaders know how to self-regulate, focus on the important things they can control and don’t focus on the drama.

5. Find your purpose

Your purpose is made of clear life goals that will motivate you, help you wake up in the morning and help you overcome adversity.

When emotionally strong leaders have found their purpose and their inner motivator, they are able to focus on the essentials, easily influence and motivate others.

Last Words Of Advice!

Give yourself the freedom to express your thoughts and emotions when you really want to.

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