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Forget Your IQ … What Is Your EQ?

Makarios Consulting

However, these same leaders are frequently leaving trails of wreckage behind them because they are not handling emotions – their own or other people’s – properly. They lack emotional intelligence, otherwise referred to as “EQ.” Angry and upset, he goes from the board meeting to a team meeting to discuss a product issue.

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Forget Your IQ … What Is Your EQ?

Makarios Consulting

However, these same leaders are frequently leaving trails of wreckage behind them because they are not handling emotions – their own or other people’s – properly. They lack emotional intelligence, otherwise referred to as “EQ.”. Angry and upset, he goes from the board meeting to a team meeting to discuss a product issue.

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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. 31% contributed to low morale.

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20 Qualities of a Consulting Rock Star

Successful Independent Consulting

Bottom line, they are emotionally intelligent and engender trust through their character and competencies. Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. Knows details matter — Deliverables, work products, and communications are well formatted and flawless. Participation creates buy-in.)

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Managing the Moment from the Inside Out

Makarios Consulting

Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 , reports that 83 percent of people with high self-awareness are top performers, while only 2 percent of bottom performers display this trait. Kept the meeting on track and productive. Rip’s self-management helped everyone who was present.

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Managing the Moment from the Inside Out

Makarios Consulting

Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 , reports that 83 percent of people with high self-awareness are top performers, while only 2 percent of bottom performers display this trait. Kept the meeting on track and productive. Rip’s self-management helped everyone who was present.

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Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers

Harvard Business

When a company needs a supervisor for a team, senior leaders often anoint the team’s most productive performer. In another article, we explained the seven behaviors of the most productive people, based on an analysis of 7,000 workers. Emotional intelligence has become seen as perhaps the essential leadership skill.