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Here are 11 guidelines that will help you do a better job of influencing decision-makers, whether these decision-makers are immediate or upper managers, peers or cross-organizational colleagues.

If we look at leadership in today’s workplace, there is a big variety of styles to be found. There are successful organizations – large and small ones – that still apply a command and control approach. On the other hand, there are companies that demonstrate a more cooperative and partner-like…

If the first encounter with a new colleague, team member or customer doesn't go so well, chances are that we fall into a trap: our first impression affects the image we have of people or situations and with that, the future expectations we have on them. This can become a pitfall.

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Imagine the following situation: You want to test the little restaurant that opened in your quarter a while ago. You have been looking forward to it, but the overall experience is anything but amazing, as both food and service leave a lot of room for improvement. So you decide not to go there…

The demand for constant attainability, unabated commitment and quick adaptability, combined with a decrease in workplace security, pushes an increasing number of employees to the edge of their capacities, causing stress-related symptoms and absenteeism. Predominantly exposed to this kind of stress…

As opposed to animals, human beings have the ability to think about what is not immediately going on around them and to contemplate events that happened in the past or might possibly happen in the future. While this capacity called imagination can be a blessing, it can be a curse at the same time.

Who doesn’t know the experience: work days are filled with tasks, phone calls, appointments and meetings. One thing follows another and once a problem has barely been solved, the next one is just around the corner. Everybody seems to want something from us. 

Increasing complexity and diminishing workplace security define our society. We live in a time in which straight careers with long lasting company affiliation have been replaced by an increasing number of patchwork careers. 

Executive Consultant Thomas Gelmi with ‚Executive Sparring – Lonely At The Top‘ in the current edition of Luxury Life Magazine