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Emotional Intelligence – It’s not all about you

Peter Stark

Although being smart and having a high IQ should help an individual’s leadership and career success, it’s certainly not a guarantee. Many times, we work with a leader who is high on IQ, intelligence, and low on EQ, emotional intelligence. To accomplish this, that means having a grasp on your EQ.

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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

A study involving 486 companies found it moderated business success, and poor-performing businesses had 20% more leaders with blind spots. Unfortunately, self-awareness is rare in leadership. Here are two proven strategies to increase leadership self-awareness and the signs when it might be lacking. One key is self-awareness.

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Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

Mindfulness has become the corporate fad du jour , a practice widely touted as a fast-track to better leadership. The benefits attributed to this kind of practice range from stronger relationships with others to higher levels of leadership performance. Photo by Joshua Jackson. Instead of quitting or being fired, he was promoted.

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Using Strong Emotional Intelligence to Manage Conflicts: A Case Study

Gina Abudi

Many organizations focus on strengthening emotional intelligence (EI) of their management staff. Strong emotional intelligence enables us to avoid or reduce conflicts and to manage through them when they do occur. [.].

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Effective leadership is communication. A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. With these recommendations, you can focus on the critical few proven leadership communication solutions that create business results. It can be exhausting.

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Leadership is about People-First NOT Profit

Rick Conlow

Leadership is about people-first. Isn’t it time leadership understands this? Aren’t you weary of the steady stream of leadership nonsense you hear from politics, Washington, or the corporate office? Leadership derailment studies show that 82% of managers fail. Do not accept stupid and greedy leadership.

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Exploring Emotional Intelligence: Helping Managers Succeed

Gina Abudi

A Client Case Study – Part 1 of 3 – The 360 Assessment. One of Abudi Consulting Group’s (ACG) clients, a pharmaceutical organization, has been working with ACG for the last year on a project to focus efforts on increasing the emotional intelligence of a key group of mid-level managers in their organization.