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Boost Your Emotional Intelligence with These 3 Questions

Harvard Business

As the concept of emotional intelligence has gone global, we’ve watched professionals founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence (or EI) because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or they haven’t understood how to improve these skills on a practical level.

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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

In today's increasingly complex and culturally-diverse workplace , leaders that are able to perceive, assess, and regulate their own and others' emotions accurately are able to better promote unity and team morale⁠. References Athanasopoulou, A., & & Dopson, S. The Leadership Quarterly , 29(1), 70-88. Baldoni, J. Bratton, V.

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Forget Your IQ … What Is Your EQ?

Makarios Consulting

However, these same leaders are frequently leaving trails of wreckage behind them because they are not handling emotions – their own or other people’s – properly. They lack emotional intelligence, otherwise referred to as “EQ.” EQ is a key indicator and driver of performance and results.

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Forget Your IQ … What Is Your EQ?

Makarios Consulting

However, these same leaders are frequently leaving trails of wreckage behind them because they are not handling emotions – their own or other people’s – properly. They lack emotional intelligence, otherwise referred to as “EQ.”. EQ is a key indicator and driver of performance and results.

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Meghan Markle Oprah Interview

CaseInterview.com

Second, I couldn’t help but notice how often she referred to “The Firm.” As some of you may know, this is how people in the McKinsey ecosystem refer to McKinsey… they all call it The Firm. Initially, I wasn’t sure who or what she was referring to when she used the phrase “The Firm.” I find that very sweet.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is considered the ability to recognize, express, comprehend and regulate emotions. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. References Clancy, C.

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Understanding Yourself to Lead Others Better

Organizational Talent Consulting

References Bratton, V., The impact of emotional intelligence on the accuracy of self-awareness and leadership performance. Self- and other-focused emotional intelligence: Development and validation of the Rotterdam emotional intelligence scale (REIS). What is your real self-awareness challenge?