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Most leadership advice comes from boardrooms. Some of the best of it comes from boot camp. Ultimate Leaders know that accountability isn’t built through motivational posters or annual performance reviews — it’s built the same way military leaders build it in their units: through clear standards, consistent follow-through, and leaders who hold themselves to the

What the Marine Corps Taught One Founder About Leading With Accountability

Cheryl Hearts

7 Ways to Inspire Confidence in Your Team

Encouraging and bringing a sense of self-confidence in your workers’ minds is a win-win approach. Let me explain how it works and why a result-oriented employee accomplishes way more tasks than a discouraged one. Emphasizing the power and strengths of people is beneficial for you. As a leader, you play

Robert Hamparyan

5 Things Being a Lawyer Has Taught Me About Leadership

When I decided to embark on my career as a lawyer, I had many ambitions. I wanted to fight for justice and become a voice for people who aren’t being heard. Leadership wasn’t on my mind at all. But I quickly realized that I had some important lessons to learn.

Niall Kennedy

10 Ways Leaders Can Manage Conflict

Leaders need to quickly and easily manage conflict with their team members. Discord at work affects everyone. In fact, it creates an environment of uncertainty and negativity. There can be constructive changes if the situation is taken care of maturely and sensitively. This can happen via effective conflict management at

Mile Živković

5 Productivity Boosting Things You Should Do

We only have 24 hours in a day, so productivity-boosting is a must to keep up. While we can’t make the day longer, we can make the hours count. Here are a few ways you can start productivity-boosting the hours in your day: 1. Track Your Time As a remote

Bridgette Hernandez

8 Tips for Writing Effective Emails as a Leader

Oceans of emails are sent every day, and if you are not cleaning yours out on a daily basis, it’s pretty easy to become overwhelmed. So you scan through them, checking those to be deleted and saving those that are from friends or work colleagues. You may also save some

Scott Mathews

7 Ways to Show Team Appreciation

A team appreciation study has shown that 88% of employees will work with a company for a long period of time if they feel appreciated. In fact, the main reason why most employees in America quit their job is that their bosses do not appreciate them. If you think that the

Matt Pavli

How Strong Leadership Can Positively Influence Company Culture

The leaders of an organization can positively influence company culture and are responsible for steering the whole company. They’re a powerful influence, but, as we all know, with great power comes great responsibility. If a leader doesn’t have the ability to shape the company culture for the benefit of the

Sally Keys

3 Ways Democratic Leadership Helps Business Growth

Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, has always demonstrated democratic leadership to make tough decisions, such as channeling resources to big-data efforts. Through her, IBM continues to grow and is partnering with government enterprises (among other entities) to leverage its ability in cognitive computing. In participative leadership, employees who would otherwise

Rebecca Lee

How Financial Skills Empower Leadership

Being a leader requires a whole range of skill sets. A great leader will have the ability to wear multiple hats, employing different skills as different situations arise. Understanding finance and having the confidence to work with money is invaluable to a leader’s arsenal. An understanding of finances will help

Nick Wright

Red Pen Leadership

A colleague asked me for feedback on an important paper she had written for the board. She was due to present that evening, so time was short. As I glanced through the paper, I saw error after error in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Without thinking, I picked up the nearest

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