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How to Go From Conflict to Collaboration, Part 2

Nash Consulting

Picture this: a team meeting, two members start arguing, tensions running high, and the air so thick with awkwardness you could practically spread it on toast, all of which we had courtside seats to. It’s like being a Jedi of problem-solving but with fewer lightsabers and more emotional intelligence. in miscommunication.

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To Develop Cultural Dexterity, Seek It Out

Harvard Business

Global organizations need leaders with cultural dexterity — the ability and know-how to make a sale in Seoul just as effectively as they host a meeting in Riyadh. At West Point, one negotiation training exercise is designed to replicate a Middle Eastern environment with native speakers of the languages of that region.

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How to Use Mindfulness to Increase Your Team’s Creativity

Harvard Business

Then we administered a 10-minute mindfulness exercise and afterward asked them to continue brainstorming the creative task. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Companies such as Google and Aetna offer corporate-based mindfulness programs to strengthen their employees’ emotional intelligence and well-being.

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LSA Global Delivers Action Learning for Biotech Executives

LSA Global

To meet its long-term objectives, this fast growing Biotech client needed senior executives to better align overall strategies with individual and team priorities as measured by their ability to progress the R&D pipeline efficiently and consistently towards regulatory approvals and reimbursement for key therapies. Job Relevance.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business

To this end, workplaces are adding health-related perks from exercise rooms to yoga classes. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. Encourage your staff to have “walking meetings” outside. ”

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4 Ways to Control Your Emotions in Tense Moments

Harvard Business

Twenty-three years ago, one of my employees — I’ll call him Dale — asked for a private meeting. But given my professions about candor in our culture, I was somewhat trapped. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions. His work was fastidious. And he was skilled at his job.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

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