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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

3 Dimensions for Understanding the Essence of Executive Capabilities Executives must set a clear and compelling strategic direction, align the organization’s culture and business practices, and mobilize talent to execute against strategic priorities.

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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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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business

Over my 40-year banking career, I’ve learned that the critical distinguishing factor for advancing in the professional services is emotional intelligence (EQ). ” Emotional intelligence matters even more today. But in order to strengthen your emotional intelligence, you have to know what it is.

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Shooting Yourself in the Foot

CaseInterview.com

One way that people harm their own careers is by missing the emotional context of pivotal, high-stakes situations at work. An extreme example would be asking your boss for a logically-deserved raise the day after he or she returns from a family member's funeral. Justifying the raise comes from IQ or intellectual intelligence.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is considered the ability to recognize, express, comprehend and regulate emotions. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence. Highlight emotions.

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Talent Matters Even More than People Think

Harvard Business

Leaving aside luck, which equates to confessing that we don’t really know, there are really just two explanations: talent and effort. Talent concerns the abilities, skills, and expertise that determine what a person can do. Effort concerns the degree to which the person deploys their talents. Is talent overrated?

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Do No Harm

CaseInterview.com

For example, let's say someone engages with you in a passive-aggressive manner. In this example, your colleague has a conflict of interest. A conversation like this demonstrates a lot of emotional intelligence (EQ) and the ability to navigate corporate politics in a savvy way. This feels suspicious.