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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

18% reported a failure to close a sale. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is considered the ability to recognize, express, comprehend and regulate emotions. Emotional intelligence is two times more impactful on leadership effectiveness than your mental or technical ability.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

This inefficiency can lead to delays in project completion, missed deadlines, and ultimately, reduced output, poor customer service and lower sales. Research shows that executive leadership has the lowest level of emotional intelligence and people skills of all layers of management. Others just do not care.

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What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees

Harvard Business

However, for medium complexity jobs, such as trainers or first line sales managers, that difference grows to 85-100%, and for highly complex jobs, such as senior leadership roles, the contribution of top performers is more than double that of the average performer.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business

In a business setting, you might ask a prospective mentee to prepare a presentation in their area of expertise, or join you on a sales call or at a strategy offsite and write up their observations. The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence. The five components of emotional intelligence and how to improve each.

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Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware

Harvard Business

It’s the only way to make the sale!”), It’s true that when helping the unaware, providing good, constructive feedback only gets us part of the way. Whereas the “aware don’t care” unapologetically acknowledge their behavior (“Of course I’m pushy with clients. Helping the unaware.

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