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Is A Lack Of Executive Presence Stalling Your Career?

Organizational Talent Consulting

After one of the interviews, the hiring team complimented a candidate's strategic decision-making, innovative ideas, strong work habits, and organizational commitment. Build your emotional intelligence. Practice identifying, evaluating, and expressing your emotions. And, you don't have to fake it. References.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business

In coaching, while Eric focused on learning ways to motivate the talent on his team, he didn’t address deeper issues, like his perfectionism, that could hold him back in the long run. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. This meant he was being groomed for ascendance.

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To Combat Harassment, More Companies Should Try Bystander Training

Harvard Business

It also costs billions in lost productivity, wasted talent, public penalties, private settlements, and insurance costs. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in its 2016 task force report encouraged employers to offer bystander training, for one. So what does work? That’s not it.’”

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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business

Note the undefended assumption that tapping the full talent pool of engineers rather than limiting hiring to a subgroup (white men) will decrease the quality of engineers hired. Engineering purity also lets engineers who are low in social or emotional intelligence off the hook. But not “pure” engineers.

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Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. This is why even the most expensive professional sports teams often fail to perform according to the individual talents of each player: There is no psychological synergy.