Everyone has bad days — those negative-energy days where we are just bummed out and need a little extra encouragement to make us feel uplifted and happy. I know that I personally, love it whenever ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Encouragement is not praise. Done well, encouragement can lead to success for an employee — at which time praise is appropriate. You see, ...

When Time magazine editors named WorldCom's Cynthia Cooper and Enron's Sherron Watkins two of their People of the Year for 2002, they were acknowledging the importance of internal ...

How do leaders show up when thriving versus drained? There is an unrecognized key factor to leaders showing up at their best: vitality. Vitality is defined as positive aliveness; it is the inner ...

Recently I wrote about being an effective and active listener and ways of encouraging other people to get things out and to talk. As we have said, effective communication is a key element in ...