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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Leadership is a high contact sport. Handling conflict constructively is an emotional intelligence skill. How a manager prepares for the leadership difficulties that surround the job is ultimately more important in determining destiny than the issues themselves. Check out Rick’s Superstar Leadership book.

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Leadership is a high contact sport. Handling conflict constructively is an emotional intelligence skill. How a manager prepares for the leadership difficulties that surround the job is ultimately more important in determining destiny than the issues themselves. Check out Rick’s Superstar Leadership book.

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3 Ways to Increase Your “Energy” As A Leader

Cheryl Cran

With emotional energy management as leaders we need to focus on continuing to elevate our emotional intelligence, work on being sensitive to the emotional well being of our team members and to be aware of our emotional impact on others.

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What to Do When You’re the Target of a Hurtful Office Rumor

Harvard Business

If you are facing hurtful rumors at work, you’ll need to use skills of emotional intelligence to avoid making the situation any worse – and ideally, to make the situation better. 1) Regulate your negative emotions. It could be the joy you derive from your family, hobbies, sports, or community service.

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Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business

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. 0% of team members were considered pragmatic. 29% of team members were considered innovative.

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6 Things Every Mentor Should Do

Harvard Business

We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport. The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence. The five components of emotional intelligence and how to improve each. Choose Mentees Carefully. Effective mentorship takes time.