Halo Psych

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Whether I’m chatting on a podcast such as my most recent interview for the Jobsworth Podcast , or whether I’m being asked to give a talk or run a course – the topic de jour has been feedback. During the Covid19 pandemic, it was about resilience and wellbeing. During 2023, it’s been all about feedback and challenging conversations.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 14, 2020

Another time, an interviewer and I talked about Norman Doors near the office and that made the conversation much more memorable for both of us (Norman Doors are poorly designed doors that fail to convey whether the door requires a push or a pull action to open). The best-case scenario is to receive an invitation for an interview.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 25, 2022

After one of the interviews, the hiring team complimented a candidate's strategic decision-making, innovative ideas, strong work habits, and organizational commitment. There is limited peer-reviewed research on the topic and an obvious tension in the literature about whether executive presence is more than impression management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And while we know that stress often leads to burnout, it’s possible to handle the onslaught of long hours, high pressure, and work crises in a way that safeguards you from the emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a lack of confidence in one’s abilities that characterizes burnout. The key is tapping into your emotional intelligence.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Companies are experiencing a severe shortage of qualified employees, with research pointing to 14,000 current openings. I recommend conducting an extensive interview that evaluates more than hard skills. Look for emotional intelligence and past experiences with organizations like yours. The average job tenure in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Research suggests that when we see ourselves clearly, we are more confident and more creative. Yet, when I first began to delve into the research on self-awareness, I was surprised by the striking gap between the science and the practice of self-awareness. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images. We’re less likely to lie, cheat, and steal.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2018

In her research on reciprocal mentorship, Belle Rose Ragins discovered that mentorships with the greatest life-long impact are more mutual. For example, many of the male mentors in our interviews on cross-gender mentoring relationships concluded that they learned and benefitted more than their female mentees.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. To maximize objectivity and scientific rigor, we used research-based behavioral criteria to determine each rating. Meetings averaged one to two sessions per month.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. who agrees that emotional intelligence is what he looked for in a new management hire. They may have gained a very useful view of effective management in any of these former roles. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job? Rebecca Knight.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Given that I’m a happiness researcher, you might think I’d strive to help people eliminate unhappiness in their careers. Unhappiness is what motivated me to jump from computer engineer to national CBS news anchor to now, happily, a positive psychology researcher. When we land a new job, optimism pays dividends there, too.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies , Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit. Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Running design sprints. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Empathy at work creates psychological safety, which research by Amy Edmondson of Harvard demonstrates is created when managers are inclusive and humble and encourage their staff to speak up or ask for help. Our brains respond more positively to empathic bosses, as neuroimaging research confirms. Eye contact.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Research bears this out, suggesting that it’s a key driver of performance and leadership effectiveness. ” As part of a research program for my new book, Insight , my team conducted dozens of interviews with people who’d made dramatic improvements in their self-awareness. Adrienne Bresnahan/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2016

Researchers refer to this kind of work as “ necessary evils ,” because it requires a person to harm others in the service of some perceived greater good. We conducted in-depth interviews with 21 HR professionals who had carried out several downsizing events on behalf of their organizations.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you have a high IQ (intellectual intelligence), you pay attention to the words they say. If you have a high EQ (emotional intelligence), you pay attention to what they mean but are not necessarily saying. Daniel Goleman’s research showed that promotions into senior executive levels are more driven by EQ than IQ.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Special Projects editor for Harvard Business Review, interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, as she discusses six attributes of leaders who display the ability to not only embrace individual differences, but to potentially leverage them for competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2016

As a researcher, I have approached my parenting role similarly to how I’ve approached research topics — with true passion and curiosity to fully understand all of its intricacies. The skills we learn as we engage in parenting ought to transfer into our work, and vice versa.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Since leaving that first startup and founding another, I’ve discovered — through research, advice, and trial and error — that several actions are effective at bridging the divide between employees at headquarters and everyone else. Some of the questions I ask in interviews are aimed at getting a sense of this.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Research generally shows that having friends at work can increase productivity and engagement. However, a new study by Wharton researchers Julianna Pillemer and Nancy Rothbard finds that there can be a dark side to having friends at work, especially if what’s best for the friendship conflicts with what’s best for the organization.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Most existing research has thus focused on failure as an inhibitor of entrepreneurship. Our research shows a more nuanced picture: Fear can inhibit and motivate. We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. We defined fear of failure as a temporary cognitive and emotional reaction to a threat to potential achievement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sadly, there’s very little evidence-based research on strategies to prevent or address sexual harassment. The best related research examines sexual assault on college campuses and in the military. Researchers and workplace experts are now exploring how to prevent sexual harassment in companies by translating that approach.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

As she said in an email interview, “By constantly engaging our stress response [when we check our phones], we ironically are impairing the very cognitive abilities — like memory and attention — that we so desperately need.” When you are calmer, you are more emotionally intelligent and make better decisions.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to. Engineering purity also lets engineers who are low in social or emotional intelligence off the hook. But not “pure” engineers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

When researchers in China gave a survey to 197 adults before and after traveling, they uncovered similar influences on the exertion of effort to attend to pronounced cultural differences in normalized values and behavioral patterns in everyday social interactions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

After years of analyzing interviews and data from more than 100 teams, it found that the drivers of effective team performance are the group’s average level of emotional intelligence and a high degree of communication between members.

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