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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

Do the following: Do a survey with former and potential clients. Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Yes, emotions. Go where your clients might open up. Go to Amazon.

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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions.

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Understanding Yourself to Lead Others Better

Organizational Talent Consulting

Self-aware leaders are not naive about their habits and are able to develop better habits. When feedback lacks reliability, it creates confusion and can slow your development. Especially when using structured feedback tools like 360 surveys that increase the amount of feedback you are receiving, reliability helps you focus.

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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence. Recent surveys show that 61% of all employees are looking for another job. In addition, see our RealTime Learning & Training leadership and personal development website -over 230 resources. 82% of managers fail.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent survey of leaders across companies with under $10m to over $1bn in annual revenue identified the following negative consequences associated with ineffective leadership communication: 52% reported higher stress levels. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Leading at a distance is still leading.

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Is A Lack Of Executive Presence Stalling Your Career?

Organizational Talent Consulting

The team was voicing that being intelligent and committed is not enough to be an effective strategic leader. Here are three tips for developing an authentic executive presence. Also, in a survey of 268 senior leaders, executive presence was considered to impact leadership success directly. Build your emotional intelligence.

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Like most leadership development opportunities, you will get the most significant return when you do the work. I also have clients working on becoming more self-aware and developing trust-based relationships. And a key outcome of executive coaching is improved emotional intelligence. I also have clients.