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6 Ways an MBA Helps Develop Leadership Skills

Leadership isn't about standing alone above everyone else. To be an excellent leader, you need to work well with others, listen to their opinions, inspire and motivate them, as well as respond to their needs. Getting the best out of your team requires exceptional collaboration skills.

Digital Leadership

How to Become a Digital Leader and Embrace Digital Transformation

Leaders of all kinds have a critically important role to play in digital transformation. Managers and executives set the tone for digital transformation, modifying structures or creating new ones as necessary, and fostering the culture necessary for successful transformation.

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How to Get a Promotion & Accelerate Your Career

Although building a successful career largely involves a lot of hard work and consistent levels of performance over the years, there are a number of things you can do to speed up the process.

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How to Develop Critical Thinking Skills to Boost Your Career

Critical thinking is an essential part of being successful in both your personal and professional life. This approach to assessing, analysing, and problem-solving allows you to face challenges better and develop effective solutions.

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6 Essential Problem-Solving Skills You Need

Some people seem to be natural problem solvers, but in reality, this is a set of skills that can be developed and honed. Improving your problem-solving requires time, dedication, and regular practice — especially hands-on experience.

Build Team Relationships

How to Build Team Relationships – Even Remotely

Good teamwork is not only essential for an effective and efficient workplace, but it also makes for happier employees

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How To Communicate Effectively in Your Career

Communication skills help you to engage successfully with others, be heard in a meeting, work in a team, and build strong relationships.

International management: challenges of a fast-changing job market

Graduates of the EDHEC MSc in International Business Management Online are immediately capable of applying the skills acquired on the programme and of contributing real-value added to the thinking done within their companies.

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5 Basic Finance Skills Every Manager Needs to Succeed

Managers should use basic finance skills in tandem with critical thinking, customer feedback, and competitor analysis to remain one step ahead of the game.

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Is Remote Working the New Normal? How New Ways to Work is Changing Business

While some large industry players are resisting remote work models, virtually all projections show an increase in remote working across all sectors.

OKR

What is OKR? A Complete Guide for objectives and key results

OKRs have immense cultural value within companies, as they encourage teams to be focused on outcomes rather than output.

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The Coaching Manager: The Image of an Inspiring Leader

The Coaching Manager takes a collaborative and empowering approach, guiding their team members and encouraging them to be more inventive and insightful.

How to Give and Receive Feedback at Work

360-degree feedback questions: the key to giving and receiving feedback

With the right approach and some practice, this is a skill that you can develop in order to be a better manager or team member, deliver better results, and be more attractive to prospective employers.

Multicultural management

How to manage multicultural teams: effective leadership in the workplace

Every business leader and executive needs certain skills and knowledge to know how to manage multicultural teams.

Why Feedback Culture is Important for Business

Why feedback culture is important and how to cultivate it in business

Feedback shouldn’t just be something that happens every six months during a formal evaluation. Rather, it should be an integral part of how a company does business.

Large corporation vs. startup culture: which one is for you?

Large corporation vs. startup culture: which one is for you?

Startup vs big company: Think carefully about the type of experience you would like to gain, and what you value most in your professional life. This plays a significant role when choosing between a startup or a big company.

Interpersonal Skills

The new generation of interpersonal communication skills sought in managers and leaders today

Organisations are now looking for executives and leaders in particular who have strong soft skills. Companies look for managers who can inspire and motivate others,

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: When Unskilled People Overestimate Themselves

When the unqualified overestimate themselves: detecting the Dunning-Kruger effect and managing its consequences.

How to land remote leadership roles online

The shift to working online due to lockdowns means there are many opportunities for remote jobs across many sectors, and at all levels, including executive positions.

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How to transition into a leadership role?

Leadership transition plan checklist: whether you’re looking to become the head of your own company or take charge of a large international corporation, making the shift isn’t quite as simple as deciding you’re ready to move up the ladder.

Global business leadership

Getting the big picture: characteristics of a successful global business leadership

Developing foundational blocks in leadership skills and strategies through a formal learning programme both reduces the risk of burn-out or oversight, and provides candidates with more competitive profiles in the job market.

What to expect from a management programme?

Ready to develop your leadership and soft skills to meet the challenges of new management styles? What to expect from a management programme?

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Advanced Strategic Management: an online certificate to help managers develop an effective corporate strategy

Companies need managers capable of crafting and carrying out a new strategic vision

leadership skills

10 ways to build your leadership skills

Most of us need ways of building leadership skills. In a changing economic environment and society, the qualities required to become a leader are being eroded in favour of new personal skills.