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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. 31% contributed to low morale.

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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

This requires a diverse array of hard and soft leadership skills , ranging from strategic acumen and decision making prowess to emotional intelligence and stakeholder management. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. Improved Emotional Intelligence (EQ) A recent Harvard study revealed that a leader's emotional intelligence (EQ) matters more than their mental ability (IQ).

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How to Manage Your Emotions Without Fighting Them

Harvard Business

Our emotions evolved as a signaling system, a way to help us communicate with each other and to better understand ourselves. What we need to do is learn to develop emotional agility , the capacity to mine even the most difficult emotions for data that can help us make better decisions. Emotional Intelligence.

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The Attributes of an Effective Global Leader

Harvard Business

According to a recent CTI study, global leaders must master a pivot to project credibility, demonstrating authority in a form familiar to senior executives in the West (the vertical pivot) while prioritizing emotional intelligence with stakeholders in local global markets (the horizontal pivot).

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3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions

Harvard Business

Yet they are often masks for deeper feelings that we could and should describe in more nuanced and precise ways, so that we develop greater levels of emotional agility , a critical capability that enables us to interact more successfully with ourselves and the world (more on emotional agility in my new book of the same name, available here ).

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Yet study after study, including my own , tells us the qualities that leaders in today’s world need are intuitive, dynamic, collaborative, and grounded in here-and-now emotional intelligence. In its place, switch to constructing self-directed experiences for participants that replicate the precise contexts they need to lead in.