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How Leadership Self-Awareness Improves Financial Performance

Organizational Talent Consulting

The researched benefits of knowing yourself are numerous beyond improving a business's bottom line. In today's increasingly complex and culturally-diverse workplace , leaders that are able to perceive, assess, and regulate their own and others' emotions accurately are able to better promote unity and team morale⁠. Baldoni, J.

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Do Not Underestimate the Importance of Non-Technical Skills

LSA Global

But, even more importantly, they need to have the non-technical skills – the so called emotional intelligence and soft skills in order to effectively collaborate with others in a way that makes the whole greater than its parts. The Research Regarding the Growing Importance of Non-Technical Skills.

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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

In fact, spending more time at work and on specific tasks can actually hurt our performance, reducing the quality of our work. Research has shown that when weekly hours worked exceed 50 or 55 hours, cognitive performance (e.g.,

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5 Ways to Focus Your Energy During a Work Crunch

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. ” By using just one or two words, Rock’s research shows, you can reduce the arousal of the limbic brain’s fight-or-flight system and instead activate the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for our executive functioning skills.

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

For some real-world perspective on becoming a first-time manager, I reached out to my friend Dr. Jim Mitchell, a computer scientist who made the leap into management from an engineering position, eventually retiring as Vice President at Oracle Laboratories. How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. Rebecca Knight.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

The number-one attribute CEOs look for in their incoming workforce (according to an IBM survey of more than 1,500 CEOs across 33 industries and 60 countries) is not discipline, integrity, intelligence, or emotional intelligence. Research shows that we are at our most creative when we are in an unfamiliar environment.