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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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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. Where prestige, pay, exit opportunities and culture are concerned, Booz & Company ranks number 4 behind MBB. However, Booz & Company consultants are respected because of the firm’s legacy of hiring for a combination of intellectual capacity and emotional intelligence.

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What is Executive Coaching?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Emotional Intelligence Coaching focuses on helping you become more self-aware and effective in relationships. Availability improves, enabling the coach to be brought into just-in-time and rapid response needs or unique situations like cross-cultural needs. Affordability improves through reduced travel and associated costs.

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Stop Neglecting Remote Workers

Harvard Business

Being a remote employee myself, and having my entire team also fall into that category, forced me to think differently about how to build team culture and keep everyone engaged and motivated. I traveled to headquarters to meet the team, figure out the culture there, and get a clear sense of who controls what.

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Exploring the Relating Domain of Strength

Leadership Vision Consulting

They might speak of traveling the world, studying culture, or people watching. But Connectedness is more than that…it can be esoteric, but it can also be tactile, emotional, or intellectual. People with the StrengthsFinder theme of Empathy have the greatest capacity for emotional intelligence.

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When You and Your Friend Both Want the Same Promotion

Harvard Business

For Andres, as a single parent with three children, this promotion would mean he would be doing more team management and less client-related travel, allowing him to spend more time with his kids. As pioneering cultural psychologist Hazel Markus has written about in her book Clash!: Andres felt disappointed.

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The Mental Benefits of Vacationing Somewhere New

Harvard Business

But as a psychologist, I believe that travel should routinely be used to achieve the opposite: to get out of your comfort zone, expose yourself to uncertainty, and eschew rest for exploration and learning. The result is personal growth — greater emotional agility, empathy, and creativity. This isn’t just for fun.

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