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Coaching and Situational Leadership: Adapting Your Style

This post was originally included in the 24th issue of my weekly newsletter. If you find it interesting, maybe you’d be interested in subscribing. If you were asked which leadership style was the best, what would you answer? I already looked for an answer to this question in a post about leadership styles months ago. And this …

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Ethical Issues at the Brain of Google: The case of Timnit Gebru

I started this post in my newsletter last week, but I decided to move it here because of its length. Weeks ago, Timnit Gebru, AI Ethical team co-lead and researcher, ended her collaboration at Google Brain. As a very summarized version, the story starts when Dr. Timnit Gebru and other colleagues sent a paper for …

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The power of introverted leaders

I included the topic of introverted leaders in my eighteenth newsletter. This post is based on it. In the issue, I started introducing a video from Business Insider, where Adam Grant shared why introverted people would be better leaders. Adam Grant is a well-known psychologist, bestselling author, and professor at Wharton School. At first, I didn’t …

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The need for vulnerable leaders

I wrote about Vulnerable Leaders in my sixteenth newsletter. The original idea comes from the articles from Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy C. Edmondson. Maybe you remember a post about Leadership Styles from some months ago. Maybe this kind of leadership would be a new one, suitable for the current situation, especially thinking about the world …

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Give continuous feedback, but not a constant performance review

Make feedback normal, not a performance review was the title of my eleventh newsletter issue, and I started it with the following writing about continuous feedback. There are more topics in the newsletter. This post is only an excerpt from it. Giving feedback is a hot topic. That’s why I used this quote, “Make feedback normal. Not …

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Leadership styles: Which ones define you?

I already wrote about what a leader is and what leadership means in my previous post about what makes a leader. But did you know that there are different leadership styles? Leadership styles are classifications of how a person behaves while leading a group. To be effective as a manager, you might use several different …

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About the offboarding process, people leaving and rehiring

These thoughts and insights about the offboarding process, about people leaving, and even rehiring them after, were initially included in my last newsletter. Hard times are moments of reflection This pandemic year is very complicated for many companies, and still might be next year. This situation usually ends in a lot of changes, and good …

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Enabling psychological safety for diversity, inclusion, and belonging

This text first appeared in my newsletter. It was some weeks ago when I found this tweet (and article on Psychology Today) from Amy Edmondson, Ph.D., HBS professor, and book author of The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth. My 120 character tweet summary just highlighted some of …

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Company Town Hall meetings: Communicating is caring

Company Town hall meetings, all-hands meetings, q&a meetings or sessions, are defined as a way that the management of a company has to meet and connect with their employees. A member of upper management (CEO, board member, or a country/regional manager) usually hosts these meetings that are attended by all employees, or in these times …

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