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About 3 in 4 people suffer from speech anxiety, and for many, their fear is so great that it could derail their careers. 
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If you know your Myers-Briggs type, you can identify your personality strengths and weaknesses. Find out yours using the guide by Career Assessment Site.
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CEO Jeff Weiner delivering the LinkedIn 2014 Company Presentation at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco, California. This presentation outlines LinkedIn's growth, our value propositions for our members and customers, as well as detailing the vision of LinkedIn to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce & the development of the Economic Graph.
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Any business transformation is destined to fail without a powerful vision of the future. A well-crafted vision is central to aligning the workforce to a company’s strategic program and motivating people to make change happen.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Developing a powerful vision should be a collaborative process with multiple iterations and inputs.
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The trick is that managing your emotions is as much about what you won’t do as it is about what you will do. My company, TalentSmart, has tested the emotional intelligence of more than a million people, so I went back to the data to uncover the kinds of things that emotionally intelligent people are careful to avoid in order to keep themselves calm, content, and in control. They consciously avoid these behaviors because they are tempting and easy to fall into if one isn’t careful.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Where you focus your attention determines your emotional state. When you fixate on the problems that you’re facing, you create and prolong negative emotions and stress, which hinders performance. When you focus on actions to better yourself and your circumstances, you create a sense of personal efficacy that produces positive emotions and improves performance. Emotionally intelligent people won’t dwell on problems because they know they’re most effective when they focus on solutions.
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Regardless of the setting or circumstance, and whether the challenge is in sports, life or business, the core characteristics of all great champions are the same, Don Yaeger maintains. They way they think, the way they prepare, how they work and how they live has produced a set of characteristics we can all work to attain. Via David Hain
Stefano Principato's insight:
It’s Always Personal. Great champions hate to lose even more than they love to win. Champions emerge from a wide variety of faiths, but nearly universally they carry an internal belief in a higher spiritual power. They Visualize Victory. To a person, great achievers see their victory and experience the result in their mind before the game begins. They are Motivated By More Than Money. They Know That Records (Including Their Own) Are Made To Be Broken.
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Imagine if you could create a brand for yourself. Think yourself as a product placed alongside your competitors in a showroom. Customers check you along with your competitors. Tell me, what is the most determinant decision making factor in here? Obviously, it’s the quality of both the products. But, let’s say, both you as well as your competitors have equal quality. Now what is the factor that control customers’ mind? Yes, it’s the presentation. It is the packaging that will make customers attract buy you over your competitors. This is what we call personal branding.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Personal branding is extremely critical for your career so that people can easily identify you from the rest of the bunch. With personal branding:
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Think back to the last thing you were passionate about. Not the thing (or things) you are passionate about right now. Rather something that you were wildly
Stefano Principato's insight:
When you are passionate about something, time seems to take a backseat to reality. Everything else may cease to exist while you pursue your passion.
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In the new era of social networks, employees are the new face(s) of corporate culture. Personal Branding is being taken seriously by employers and is a better way towards growth for both the employer and employee.
Stefano Principato's insight:
A powerful personal brand generates leads, referrals and connections, engages the right conversations, and opens doors.
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If you are undergoing a significant change in your life, the alchemy of coaching can help you on your Hero's Journey of transition and transformation.. Via Ariana Amorim
Stefano Principato's insight:
If you are undergoing a significant change in your life, such as wanting a career change, finding meaningful work. or recovering your creativity, coaching can help you stay on track and move confidently through the anxiety and confusion that can accompany transitions.
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If your business is on the path to success, it most likely is being managed in accordance with the strong vision of the founder, or a vision collectively agreed to by the management team.
The extent to which a business that actually has a vision for the future, will manage to achieve the articulated vision, depends on many factors ,not the least being communicating the vision in a way that sticks in the mind of all required to work towards its achievement.
This excellent article, discusses a study that identified the best ways to communicate the vision of the business to stakeholders, and suggests five qualities which need to be displayed in communicating the vision.
Via Daniel Watson, Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
Stefano Principato's insight:
Making a vision easily understood is critical. Drop the buzzwords and corporate speak. Use terms that are easily understood, unambiguous, and as simple as possible.
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My point is this, having clarity around your Vision, Mission, Values, and Strategy is the key to success. Via AlGonzalezinfo
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Keep it simple. The most challenging statement will be your Strategy Statement.
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight,
February 27, 2014 7:06 PM
“It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t, neither can anyone else.” – Collis/Rukstad Great article by @DanVForbes
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The conversation around must-have, 21st century leadership skills has been in full swing for years. From business to education; classroom to community, the debate on what is a “new skill” or an “always skill” can be both controversial and confusing. Although it’s almost certain we will never all agree to a singular list of skills, strategies, and competencies leaders must embody for success now and in the future, we do know what effectively operating and leading in a fluid, dynamic and every changing 21st Century world requires:
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
Stefano Principato's insight:
Possessing a clear understanding of your strengths, shortcomings, motivations and emotions. Self awareness allows you to better understand other people and positions you to transform informed insight into intentional action.
Jerry Busone's curator insight,
March 15, 2014 9:19 AM
one of my favorite reads...mirrors leadership expectations of Business, people and market leadership |
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“Authenticity” is the new buzzword among leaders today. We’re told to bring our full selves to the office, to engage in frank conversations, and to tell personal stories as a way of gaining our colleagues’ trust and improving group performance. The rise in collaborative workplaces and dynamic teams over recent years has only heightened the demand for “instant intimacy,” and managers are supposed to set an example.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Authenticity begins with self-awareness: knowing who you are—your values, emotions, and competencies—and how you’re perceived by others.
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We all have different values in our lives that guide our actions and choices. Here is a quick 5 minute exercise to help discover what matters most to you.
Stefano Principato's insight:
This exercise is very simple, but by doing it you can gain a better awareness into what you really value in life, as well as what you need to focus on right now.
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We say leadership is all about others and then hypocritically say, follow me! Leader-centric vision casting captures and dominates current leadership thought.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Vision centered on your passion not theirs is essential in several situations. Someone must boldly point the way during:
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Managers often use the terms “training” and “coaching” interchangeably. This leads to a lot of confusion for both managers and employees, and makes it difficult to evaluate the outcomes of each.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Training is used for things like new-hire orientation, changes in processes, procedures, or technology, and new governmental regulations. It trains something specific and can be a one-time event.
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Dr. Goleman proposes a so-called “competency-framework” to describe how the fundamentals of EI translate into job success; two of these components are related to dealing with one self. Two others concern the ability to manage other people as well as relationships with others. Via Jenny Ebermann
Stefano Principato's insight:
Leading yourself adequately and being aware of your own constraints, culture, worldviews and abilities plus being willing to learn and move forward on the path of “emotional intelligence” will certainly have a major impact on how you will lead others.
daniel peled's curator insight,
April 28, 2014 1:57 PM
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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Deciding whether to use mentoring or coaching depends on program goals, desired outcomes and the methods to achieve these outcomes.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Coaching helps employees make the most of their potential and performance capabilities. This is typically accomplished via an internal or external coach primarily aimed at developing skill competence and improving performance in specific areas. Mentoring can help improve career development, simplify increased responsibilities, build confidence, and help individuals learn and grow within an organization. Mentoring typically falls into two categories: non-directive mentoring, where the mentor acts as a sounding board, catalyst and role model, and sponsor mentoring, where a senior executive will promote, oversee and control a protege’s career.
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In the beginning, I did not realize that there could be a difference between visualization and visioning. I had thought them to be the same. Thus, I had used the terms interchangeably. It was only when I started learning more about what visioning is and entails that made me become aware of the difference. Via Ariana Amorim
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What does your vision incite? Understanding what your vision incites will help understand if it will work for the long term or not. Does it incite action?
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I just finished a mentoring session tonight and as always, I feel as if I learned more than I advised. The old adage holds true, “To teach is to learn twice.” Mentoring is an ancient practice, and one I hope to encourage.
Stefano Principato's insight:
Mentoring in this age of social networking may occur to a degree through blog posts, articles, wikis, tweets, status updates, Skype video calls, websites, online videos, and emails, and that is a great start, but I am encouraging something more; a common time where a master unveils his secrets to a student privately.
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Values must support your organization's purpose and desired future. Ask first, “What are our values?” Then ask, “Do our values enable us to fulfill our purpose and our potential?
Stefano Principato's insight:
Values are usually timeless and unchanging, but not always.
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In today’s high-tech, high-speed, high-stress world, communication is more important then ever, yet we seem to devote less and less time to really listening to one another. Genuine listening has become a rare gift—the gift of time. It helps build relationships, solve problems, ensure understanding, resolve conflicts, and improve accuracy. At work, effective listening means fewer errors and less wasted time. At home, it helps develop resourceful, self-reliant kids who can solve their own problems. Listening builds friendships and careers. It saves money and marriages. Via The Learning Factor, Katherine Bryant, David Hain
Stefano Principato's insight:
Jerry Busone's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 9:18 PM
Greta quote in the cartoon. "nobody hates a listener"
Jerry Busone's curator insight,
April 9, 2014 9:19 PM
Great caption in cartoon "Nobody hates a listener" 
Tonya Smith Saylor's curator insight,
May 7, 2016 10:20 PM
Are you a good listener? Do you ever find yourself daydreaming in class and then suddenly you have no idea what the teacher just said? In today’s high-tech, high-speed, high-stress world, communication is more important then ever, yet we seem to devote less and less time to really listening to one another. This resource provides 10 tips to help you become a more effective listener.
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Getting past your fears is only one part of the equation; building skill is a different proposition.