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Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Harvard Business

Her manager feels lucky to have such an easy direct report to work with and often compliments Esther on her high levels of emotional intelligence, or EI. So much for emotional intelligence , she’s starting to think. She’s always engaged and is a source of calm to her colleagues.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

A few things about effective leadership communication are proven based on several studies over the past two decades. Numerous peer-reviewed studies provide evidence that communication effectiveness is a strong predictor of leadership performance. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Why Leadership Communication Matters.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Consider GM as a case study. According to management studies, a key reason leaders derail is that they do not communicate well. Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit.

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Is Executive Coaching Really Worth it?

Organizational Talent Consulting

In an extensive quantitative study by Stanley Black & Decker, the Sasha Corporation found that executives receiving coaching increased goal performance by 15% compared to executives not receiving coaching. And a key outcome of executive coaching is improved emotional intelligence. Reflection improves performance. Cohn, A.,

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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. One such study by Jason S.

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Leadership is about People-First NOT Profit

Rick Conlow

Business is about the products, process, paycheck and profit. Leadership derailment studies show that 82% of managers fail. People are useable commodity products, not crucial business partners to most leaders. Learn the emotional intelligence skills taught by Daniel Goleman. Leadership is about people-first.

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Why Coaching is the Secret Sauce of Leadership

Rick Conlow

It is about learning a process and applying all the skills required for good relationships and emotional intelligence. For example, a study by the Personnel Management Association compared training alone to coaching and training. They found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%.