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CEOs Often Feel Lonely. Here’s How They Can Cope.

Harvard Business

The loneliness experienced by CEOs stems not from a lack of social connections but from the heavy burden of leadership and decision-making especially during crises, when they look to their board, senior executives, or operational managers to steady the ship but feel they arent up to the task or are divided.

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Best Practices in Client Relationship Management

Effective Managers

Seek Feedback and Act on It Regularly seeking feedback shows clients that you value their opinion and are committed to improvement: Surveys and Reviews: Conduct client satisfaction surveys and request reviews to gather insights. Recognize them in newsletters, social media, or at events.

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What Do Employee Engagement Surveys Really Tell Us?

Effective Managers

Employee engagement surveys are becoming increasingly popular among employers as a way to measure how connected workers feel to their jobs. However, there is no one clear definition of “engagement,” and the results of these surveys can be difficult to interpret. Surveys are often expensive and time-consuming to administer.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

Do the following: Do a survey with former and potential clients. Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Related Tutorial Video: "Ideas to Spark your Website Copy Clarity".

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What’s Your Leadership Origin Story?

Harvard Business

An in-depth survey of 92 leaders identified four distinct narratives.

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Survey: 68% of CEOs Admit They Weren’t Prepared for the Job

Harvard Business

And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 47% said that developing their senior leadership team was surprisingly challenging. CEOs are known for their confidence.

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Survey: Female Founders Are (Finally) Paying Themselves More

Harvard Business

They likely devalued my leadership abilities because I had unwittingly devalued myself by not paying myself enough.” In the survey just completed this spring, we found some encouraging signs: Women planned to give themselves solid raises in the coming year. But recent research shows this may be changing.

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