Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 5 Things Great Leaders Do Every Day

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

The video below from Entrepreneur discusses five things great leaders do every day, including facing challenges rather than avoiding them. Check out the video to learn more.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: How to Tell if Someone is a Great Leader

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

The video below from Inc. discusses Google's technique for identifying good leaders. Check out the video to learn more.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Be a Great Leader

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

The video below from Harvard Business Review discusses the qualities of a great leader, including humility and intense professional will. Check out the video to learn more.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Career Advice Business Leaders Wold Give Their Younger Selves

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• Career Advice Business Leaders Would Give to Their Younger Selves: "Here’s what they told me about picking the right career path, finding the right mentor and getting in the right mindset to land the career of your dreams."

• What You Need to Know to Become a Great Leader: "If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent."

• How to Pursue Your Dream When Everyone Says it Won't Work: "Other people’s concerns about your potential for success or failure often have more to do with their realities than your own."

• Give Working Parents What They Really Want: "Companies that prioritize family-first benefits that support family responsibilities while emphasizing self-care and healthy living will see greater return on loyalty, morale, productivity and performance from all employees."
• 3 Types of Questions That Are Crucial for Employee Coaching:"Great managers use questions to lead employees to mutually agreed-upon solutions -- it significantly increases the likelihood of success."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How a Journal Can Help Change Your Mindset

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• How a Journal Can Help Change Your Mindset: "How we think ultimately influences how we behave. Getting to the truth about our mindset can help us shift our beliefs and take action to make important changes to our life."

• How to Talk to an Employee Who Isn't Meeting Their Goals: "Start by asking your employee how they think they’re doing on their goals. In addition to an overall assessment, ask them to list key metrics and examples by which they measure their performance."

• 5 Ways to Make a Steady Freelance Income: "Keep reading to learn about five different freelance jobs that offer competitive compensation, and find out how to train yourself to thrive in each position."

• What Separates High Achievers from Mere Dreamers?: "That would be the person who is generous, honest, and who gave credit to other people for their own ideas."
• Why Great Leaders Need to Be Their Best Selves:"Your best self is who you authentically are at your core. Your best self is wise, fearless, and leads you towards what is best for your life."

5 TED Talks to Inspire You in Your Career

Staying motivated in your career and developing your knowledge require you to apply some specific practices and habits. One of those habits should be regularly viewing inspiring and educational videos and listening to books and podcasts that can expand your knowledge.

There are many inspiring TED talks to view but check out the five career-related TED talks below to get you started.

It's never too late to reinvent yourself. Take it from Paul Tasner -- after working continuously for other people for 40 years, he founded his own start-up at age 66, pairing his idea for a business with his experience and passion.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone.

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"

What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores.

TED Fellow and Brazilian entrepreneur Bel Pesce breaks down five easy-to-believe myths that ensure your dream projects will never come to fruition.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 3 Things Great Leaders Say

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 3 Things Great Leaders Say: "Great leaders put their ego aside because admitting to being human and making mistakes actually increases trust."

• How to Craft a Perfect Thank-You Email After a Job Interview: "the following email template is an ideal way to follow up because it possesses six important traits"

• Why Traveling the World is a Great Investment in Yourself: "Unfamiliar moments help us grow. That’s how we acquire new habits, new tastes in food, and new interests we might take back home and share with those around us. Learning to be curious about and gain knowledge from people will aid you in every aspect of your life."

• More Sleep, Not Less, is the Secret of Success: "there is still a long way to go before it will be generally accepted that effective leaders sleep more rather than less than regular mortals."
• 3 Things to Do to Stop Staying Late at Work: "The more you plan, the more choices you’ll be able to make over the course of your workday that can improve your chances of leaving whenever you want."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• Why People Really Quit Their Jobs: "The decision to exit was because of the work. They left when their job wasn’t enjoyable, their strengths weren’t being used, and they weren’t growing in their careers."

• Unpopular Career Advice that Might Save Your Career: "Practice patience in the new year; just because you aren't where you want to be right now, doesn't mean you're not well on your way to getting there."

• How Your Office Should Recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: "Gather a group of coworkers—or make your own plan—and contact local nonprofits to see how you may help them."

• Quit Your Job and Move Abroad: "It's the ultimate fantasy: Escape the 9-5 by moving to a place where it's so cheap you barely need to work."
• 5 Must-Have Traits of Successful Leaders: " In today’s business climate, you are quickly becoming a dinosaur if you believe that the personal side of leadership is unnecessary or unimportant. You are managing people, not robots."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 4 Pieces of Career-Launching Advice Every Millennial Should Hear

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 4 Pieces of Career-Launching Advice Every Millennial Should Hear: "Whatever the specifics, naysayers are going to be a reality in your life. The kicker is, the mob mentality you hear isn't necessarily right. You can take what others say and turn it around."

• If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present: "To truly engage other human beings and create meaningful connections, we need to silence our inner voices and be fully present — and being more mindful can help."

• How to Organize Your Day to Set Yourself Up for Success: "If you’re constantly frazzled on the job, logging super-long hours with little to show for it at the end of the day, chances are good that you’re mismanaging your time."

• 9 Ways to Stay Productive When You Work From Home: "Whether you work in a home office, kitchen or living room, if there’s “stuff” around that reminds you of your household chores, your eyes will go there and you’ll get distracted. Whenever you work from home, claim a clutter-free zone."
• 18 Ways You Can Make Money Right Now: "We're so interconnected that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of ways you can make money, almost immediately, from the comfort of your home."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 12 Tips for College Grads Entering the Workforce

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 12 Tips for College Grads Entering the Workforce: "Make sure to take risks, make mistakes, then learn from them. Each experience, no matter how awful it might feel at the moment, is going to be a powerful learning experience for you in the future."

• 6 Daily Practices of Great Leaders: "A great leader is always enlisting other people to believe in the dream, shape the dream, stay dedicated to the dream. It’s an honest and authentic and genuine desire to see other people be involved in the process and to enjoy that process."

• The Essential To-Do List for New Leaders: "In short, you need to establish the rules of engagement out of the gate so people understand how the flow of communication is going to work and how much time you are going to spend seeking input. By managing their expectations, you manage their fear."

• 3 Things You Need to Do to Avoid Hitting a Career Plateau: "How you communicate is crucially important. Instead of focusing on what you transmit, make sure the message is received."
• 6 Perfect Ways to Start Your Day: "Checking a dreaded item off your to-do list gives you a lift and a feeling of accomplishment that carries you through the rest of the day."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Nine Strategies to Find Your Next Role

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 9 Strategies to Find Your Next Role: "Hunting and applying for jobs online is frequently frustrating and fruitless. The best way to search for jobs online is to become "the hunted" by developing a strong online personal brand."

• 11 Ways to Stay Productive When You're Tired: "consider switching up your environment at work to keep you energized and inspired. Try doing a couple of hours with your laptop in a nearby café or library, or at least moving closer to a window where the fresh air and daylight can improve your performance."

• 4 Little-Known Secrets to Better Networking: "One of the most fascinating things about the business world is that valuable connections can form just about anywhere. It’s only a matter of getting out there."

• What Sets Successful CEOs Apart?: "High-performing CEOs understand that a wrong decision is often better than no decision at all."
• 10 Habits of the Most Confident People: "The only person you need to compare yourself with is the version of yourself that you want to become. That's it."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: 7 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable Without Being Overworked

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 7 Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable Without Being Overworked: "Being enthusiastic and energetic about new tasks and challenges is also empowering, and may help coworkers embrace challenges with more energy as well. Supervisors consider the employees who empower others as valuable parts of a team."

• 3 Signs You've Outgrown Your Job: "
  Acquiring new skills not only keeps your job exciting, it also allows for growth and new possibilities. 
  Ask yourself: Did I learn something new today? If not, when was the last time I learned something new?
  "

• The Only Way to Engage and Retain Millennial Workers: "
  You want to keep millennials? Don't allow them to get bored. 
  Millennials love to learn
  ."

• 10 Ways to Become a More Charismatic Person: "Make your conversations relatable to those you’re speaking with. Use stories that position you as an average person in whom others can see themselves."
• 7 Core Beliefs of Great Bosses: "Exceptional bosses see change as an opportunity for improvement. They constantly adapt their approach and embrace change to stay ahead of the curve."