Confessions of a Consultant

JUNE 3, 2018

We were running a training program in Antwerp with an engineering crew from a large pharmaceutical company. The program covered leadership, emotional intelligence, team building and personal branding. Participants, having flown half way around the world, need to see something more than the inside of a training room.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

It most often occurs in situations where teams are lacking in trust, have unclear roles and are deficient in emotional intelligence skills. This causes too many disagreements to get emotional, personal, abusive and accusatory. Unhealthy conflict impedes people’s ability to perform.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2018

The leaders were asked to assess their own abusive behavior and emotional experience toward their staff, while the staff were asked to report on their leaders’ constructive behaviors that day. Our research suggests that many abusive leaders will respond constructively to these requests to compensate for their wrongdoings.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

By carrying others’ confidences, suggesting solutions to interpersonal issues, working behind the scenes to prevent pain, and reframing difficult messages in constructive ways, toxic handlers absorb the negativity in day-to-day professional life and allow employees to focus on constructive work. Emotional Intelligence.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

The most basic form of communication is constructing a compelling story. This is true whether the speaker is Albert Einstein imagining himself on a train nearing the speed of light to explain relativity or John F. In a world where U.S. ” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

If you are engaging in “informal and evaluative talk in an organization, usually among no more than a few individuals, about another member of that organization who is not present,” — especially if the aim is to confirm your experience rather than get constructive solutions — then you are participating in gossip.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

There are a variety of reasons why this is so difficult: We’ve been trained to believe that strong emotions should be suppressed. Or we’ve never learned a language to accurately describe our emotions. If you want to assess your own Emotional Agility, here is a link to a quiz.)

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

But when he had the chance to get candid feedback during a company training, he realized that he wasn’t focused enough on how he was showing up. Second, the more power a leader wields, the less comfortable people will be to give them constructive feedback, for fear it will hurt their careers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

After all, as Henry Ford is credited as saying, “the only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” The ability to manage oneself and to manage others are the core elements of emotional intelligence.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

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.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Our research revealed four strategies that enable entrepreneurs to ensure that fear of failure works positively: Emotional self-monitoring and control. Emotional intelligence involves both awareness of one’s feelings and being able to control their influence on thought and behavior.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. Half the teams received messages from a neutral expert who spoke about the importance of training and practice using simulations but did not comment on their work quality.

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