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Nov 2025
20m 47s

How to Motivate and Inspire

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
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After a leader turns around the performance of one of his direct reports, he and his coach explore how it happened. And how to make it stick. Core ideas in the episode: Workplaces improve when positive feedback is presentOur natural human negative bias is a barrier to giving positive feedback.Learn to notice when things go well.Tell people how they are h ... Show More
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