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Careers Counsel | How to Develop Your Leadership Style

Careers Counsel is a weekly round-up of the most helpful and inspiring advice for boosting your career.

BoF Careers Team

26 November 2021

Careers Counsel rounds up the most useful and inspiring articles from around the web. To browse hundreds of jobs from leading brands, visit BoF Careers.

How to Develop Your Leadership Style (Harvard Business Review)

Gaining an ability to “read the room” is part of fine-tuning your leadership style. Although you may have an idea of how you want to be perceived when entering a situation, your plan may need to change once you’re actually there.

10 Ways to Build and Boost Your Confidence (Entrepreneur)

Normalise stepping outside of your comfort zone and position yourself in new environments; this stretches you past what you know and as a result, increases your confidence.

10 Things to Consider When Changing Careers (Huffington Post)

Make a list of any transferable skills you have. [...] If you’re coming up short, research how you can gain the necessary skills to move on.

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