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Pain Points Podcast – Balancing Work And Kids

What does it take to balance work duties with family responsibilities? And how can you be a good manager to parents in your team? Join us this week as we discuss life as a working parent – the highs, the lows, and how to make the most of it for everyone.

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Pain Points Podcast – Connecting to Mission

Your organization's mission is what keeps everyone pulling in the same direction. But with more people working remotely than ever before, vital links to the mission can be broken. In Pain Points, we reveal how to ensure everyone's connected and inspired.

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Pain Points Podcast – Perfectionism

How do you put in a great performance without punishing yourself with perfectionism? And how do you guard against harmful perfectionism within your team? Pain Points explores what perfectionism is, why it's such a problem, and what you can do about it.

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Pain Points – Managing New Hires

The Pain Points podcast explores managing someone new. What are your responsibilities? How much supervision does a newbie need? And how much time should you give them to settle in before the real work begins?

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Pain Points Podcast – Meaningful Conversations

When your people work to different schedules and from various places, how do you connect meaningfully, so that you can build relationships and be as creative and collaborative as you'd like? That's the latest challenge for the Pain Points podcast team!

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Pain Points Podcast – Praise

Praise is a powerful tool to build relationships and boost performance. But you have to get it right. Find out how to perfectly pitch your praise in this episode of the Pain Points podcast. We discuss the pitfalls of praisegiving – and how to avoid them.

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Pain Points Podcast – Presentations Pt 1

Giving a good presentation is a skill that anyone can learn. In the first episode of our two-parter on presenting like a pro, the Mind Tools team explores the best ways to prepare for presentations, including how to calm your nerves!

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Pain Points Podcast – Presentations Pt 2

In part two of our podcast about presenting, learn how to use nervous energy to your advantage... overcome problems on the day... cope with distractions... manage interactions... and deliver a presentation to be proud of!

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Pain Points Podcast – How Do I Decide?

Listen to Pain Points to discover the secrets of decision making. When do you use your head, and when your heart? How do you decide things with others? What are the best decision-making tools? And how do you announce difficult decisions to your team?

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Pain Points Podcast – Modeling Inclusion

In this episode of the Pain Points podcast we explore ways to model inclusion. Discover the benefits of getting it right, the problems that arise when it goes wrong, and lots of practical ways that we can all help to increase inclusion in our teams.

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Pain Points Podcast – Pressure

There's a fine line between pressure and stress. One makes you work better, the other stops you in your tracks. So how do you improve your relationship with pressure? And can you really use pressure to help you produce your best work?