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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Cross-cultural differences.

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture is acutely critical during notable change, such as M&A, and executive leaders increasingly work with and lead multicultural teams. Coaching helps leaders shift assumptions and perceptions and adopt positive cross-cultural motivation, vision, and cultural agility. Reflection improves performance.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels. No wonder the #1 issue on employee engagement surveys is the lack of communication. Research shows that CEOs only spend 4.3

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Is Employee Engagement Just a Reflection of Personality?

Harvard Business

Traditionally, this research has focused on the contextual or external drivers of engagement, such as the characteristics of the job, the culture of the organization, or the quality of its leaders. In combination, these traits represent some of the core ingredients of emotional intelligence and resilience.

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What Science Tells Us About Leadership Potential

Harvard Business

Moreover, a large global survey of employee attitudes toward management suggests that a whopping 82% of people don’t trust their boss. In addition, effective leaders are generally more emotionally intelligent , which enables them to stay calm under pressure and have better people skills. What is the role of culture?

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What to Do When You’re the Target of a Hurtful Office Rumor

Harvard Business

If you are facing hurtful rumors at work, you’ll need to use skills of emotional intelligence to avoid making the situation any worse – and ideally, to make the situation better. 1) Regulate your negative emotions. Give yourself time to cool off. 2) Expand your perspective. 4) De-identify from the situation.

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Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an MBA Can

Harvard Business

A year later, the bank sent out another employee survey. Many large-scale studies have found that leadership based solely on MBA-trained logic is not always enough for delivering long-term financial and cultural results, and that it is often detrimental to an organization’s productivity. Approximately 40% of CEOs are MBAs.