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Shape Your Future
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Jean-Pierre Fallou

Shape Your Future Today

Shape Your Future Now: A Guide to Achieving Your Goals Many people spend their lives dreaming of the future they want to have, but never take the necessary steps to turn those dreams into reality. They let fear, self-doubt, or other obstacles hold them back from taking action. However, it’s never too late to start

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Leadership Mindfulness: The Power of Being Present
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Jean-Pierre Fallou

Leadership Mindfulness: The Power of Being Present

Leadership Mindfulness: The Power of Being Present- Leadership can be a challenging and stressful role, with many demands on a leader’s time, attention, and energy. To be effective, leaders must be able to manage their own emotions, communicate clearly and empathetically, and build strong relationships with their team members. One powerful tool that can help

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What is Next-Level Leadership
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Jean-Pierre Fallou

What is Next-Level Leadership?

What is Next-Level Leadership is an ever-evolving concept and the need for next–level leadership is becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Next–level leadership is about taking traditional leadership skills and applying them in a more innovative and creative way. It’s about being able to think outside the box and come up with new solutions to old problems.

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Entrepreneurship List
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Jean-Pierre Fallou

Entrepreneurship List

The Ultimate List of Entrepreneur Statistics 2022 It is often said that entrepreneurs  are the backbone of the nation. Anyone with the passion and drive can become a successful entrepreneur as long as the planning and execution are done well. The first step to becoming a successful entrepreneur is choosing the ideal business. The business

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The Science of Protection Audio eBook
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Raamon Newman

The Science of Protection Audio eBook

The Science of Protection Audio eBook Just Released! With all that Raamon Newman has experienced personally and professionally the last couple of years and now with all the market volatility, virus fear, war, supply chain issues, and accelerated change going on Raamon realized more than ever having the capacity to protect himself, others, achievement &

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Tracy Tanner

Think Networking is Hard? Relax and Try Something Different

Author Wayne Yoshida Principal Technical Writer | Contributing Editor | Senior Technical Writer | LinkedIn Optimizer Writer | Author | Magazine Columnist ________________________________________________________ Whenever anyone says “networking is hard,” I always tell them to look at it from a different angle. I tell them about a conversation I had with my retired elementary school teacher

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Tracy Tanner

Do This to Level Up Your Customer-Experience Management Game

CX has become a lead indicator of performance, change and company culture, but what are the best ways of fueling a passion for it among employees? By Phil Prosser March 15, 2022 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In February of 2020, Harvard Business Review published an article by Rob Markey that included

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Global business school to link Akron, California, and Ghana students
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Tracy Tanner

Global business school to link Akron, California, and Ghana students

GREATER AKRON — Global Ties Akron, The University of Ghana, and Kolena Corp. will use a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, funded by the U.S. Department of State, to create The University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) Global Online Collaboratory Hub (The Hub), which will link college students in Accra, Ghana; Orange

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Tracy Tanner

When We Think of a Great Leader…

Introduction When I think of a great leader… [fill in the blank] There have been moments in my career where I just knew that my manager or even a colleague had it dialed in. They were really good at leading while others may not have had that “it” factor. So what differentiates one from another.

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Tracy Tanner

Ubuntu Leadership: Leading with Humanity

I attended a LinkedIn live event this week run by the Humanity Vibe Zone forum, (Charisse Fontes, Maria Vargas, and Andrea K. Summers) discussing how we lead with Humanity. They quickly unwrapped the concept that leaders must lead with humanity especially in the current times. Many of us have been leading with humanity for some

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Next Level Leadership Mastery Course BRONZE Bundle
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Raamon Newman

What is the Next Level Leadership Mastery Course?

What is the Next Level Leadership Mastery is All About is specifically designed for any current or future leader looking to up their leadership game by incorporating a focus on developing self-awareness, creativity, soft skills, work-life balance, persuasion, influence & negotiation, and investing in developing yourself and others. Each week contains both the theoretical and

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Tracy Tanner

Overall Qualities of an Exceptional Nurse Leader

We often think about leadership from a corporate executive perspective. However, there are leaders in our everyday lives, outside of corporate America, that can make a huge impact on the people they serve. The following was extracted from an article entitled, 7 Leadership Styles In Nursing: How Do They Impact You? The bulleted list below

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Creative mindset
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Tracy Tanner

Leading Differently

We all talk about leading but what will it to approach leading differently today? A conference held in the UK a few years ago was summarized in this Forbes article. Surprisingly these techniques hold true today. How to Lead Differently, by Sally Percy, outlines three concepts to effectively lead differently given the circumstances of the

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Las Vegas eLearning Company | The Future of Work with Kolena
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Tracy Tanner

Opposites Attract

You may have heard the phrase, “opposites attract”. Some believe in this concept from a relationship perspective and others don’t. Where did this phrase comes from and how it applies in business is the focus in this blog. In 1785, French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Augustin-de-Coulomb) developed an experimental law which stated that like

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Kolena Corporation
Empowerment
Tracy Tanner

Leaders: Think BOLD! Be BOLD!

I’ve had the honor to share my life experiences over the past two years in speaking with college students and educational professionals. This has provided me an additional framework of confidence that was needed to persevere in times of turbulence. Based on my core message, my hope has been and continues to be to inspire

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Raamon Newman

Why the leadership industry has failed

“According to a report by Deloitte, organizations around the globe invest approximately $46 billion annually on leadership development programs. Many of these leadership-development efforts, however, have failed to improve the state of leadership and have shown very few tangible results. In a scathing indictment of the leadership industry, Harvard lecturer and founder of the Center

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Tracy Tanner

10 Common Leadership Styles

The Indeed Editorial Team gives a thorough run down of the various styles of leadership, inclusive of benefits, challenges and examples of each. What I find fascinating is the characteristics of each. For example, according to the Indeed team, if you demonstrate more of an autocratic type of leadership style, your traits may include. self-confidence

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Tracy Tanner

Social Distancing | Distance Learning | 6’ Apart

Moment by moment, national, state, and city officials are announcing new directives changing the course of our daily lives. Most recently a large majority of corporations, educational institutions, and other entities have made decisions to work remotely. Remote, in this instance, means to work from home, that is, if our workforce is equipped to do

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Have you heard about the Science of Protection?

The unfolding of The Science is Protection is brilliant, like a good story that you don’t want to put down. Artfully written, the Science of Protection must never be compared to leadership training courses because it is instead a way of life. It is the power and silence within one’s mind, starting with one’s own

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What is Social Learning?

Social learning is quickly becoming an increasingly hot topic for corporate learning & development departments as more businesses look to leverage the knowledge of their subject matter experts across their entire organization.

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COVID-19 Remote Teams Checklist

This checklist was built for small and midsize businesses dealing with new work-from-home policies due to the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. Download The Coronavirus Checklist for Newly Remote Teams The goal is to provide practical action items to ensure business owners, operations, HR admins, and employees make a smooth transition to working from home without losing

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Tracy Tanner

Diamond Challenge

Today, I was privileged to judge the Diamond Challenge regional high school entrepreneurship competition. My team and I listened to 15 pitches from exceptionally bright student teams who showed passion, innovation, and a wonderfully successful future! Hundreds of students attended and other judge teams were involved. Thank you for the opportunity Jonathan Cassie and Chuck

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Hello world! Creativity is like a muscle

Welcome to The Kolena Exchange your gateway to being a life-long learner. As kids, we are born to discover and over time our Creative thinking is often trained out of us. We know that Creativity is like a muscle in your brain and needs to be exercised in order to develop in the years ahead.

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