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Take Pause

The discipline of pause is an essential leadership competency that will help combat stress.

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Mon Dec 02 2019

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As talent development professionals, we continuously search for new ways to develop talent, particularly the capacity and capability to lead and inspire others. The self-discipline to pause—which is simple to articulate yet difficult to develop—before responding and reacting to a person or situation is one of today’s most important leadership competencies. However, it has somehow been muted by the constant stimulus of our frenetic, technology-enabled world. Void of this discipline, leaders run the risk of causing irreparable damage to their organizations’ overall performance.

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