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Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

These, it turns out, are what one of us (Dan) has described as core emotional intelligence competencies. This connection with emotional intelligence was underscored in the interviews Matt conducted with the study participants themselves. But the improvements themselves were in the realm of emotional intelligence.

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How Are You Perceived at Work? Here’s an Exercise to Find Out

Harvard Business

While this exercise won’t take a lot of time, it may be psychically intensive. Ask for a face-to-face meeting. If you have to make the request via email, offer to answer any questions ahead of the meeting. It only takes a couple well-worded questions to a few key people to get the information you need. (If

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

There is little that machines, robots, and software-based AI won’t be able to do in the future – apart from feeling and acting in a human and emotionally intelligent way. “Our so-called “soft skills” are what make us human.

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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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How to Go From Conflict to Collaboration, Part 3

Nash Consulting

To help navigate this mindset, consider a reflective exercise known as "Just Like Me." This exercise prompts you to acknowledge that: This person possesses beliefs, viewpoints, and opinions, just like me. To elevate your emotional intelligence game, it's also essential to articulate your own emotions.

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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. Companies such as Google and Aetna offer corporate-based mindfulness programs to strengthen their employees’ emotional intelligence and well-being.

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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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