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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

Related Tutorial Video: "Ideas to Spark your Website Copy Clarity". Do the following: Do a survey with former and potential clients. Follow up a survey with interviews that allow you to probe for insight, clarity and really good phrases. Yes, emotions. Yes, emotions. Go where your clients might open up.

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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence. Recent surveys show that 61% of all employees are looking for another job. Pulling It All Together #image_title Watch this Servant Leadership training video for more details. Their priority will be people-first. A record 4.2

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

A recent survey of leaders across companies with under $10m to over $1bn in annual revenue identified the following negative consequences associated with ineffective leadership communication: 52% reported higher stress levels. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Highlight emotions. Leading at a distance is still leading.

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The Surprising Role of Goodwill in Building Trust

Organizational Talent Consulting

In the following video, Simon Sinek breaks down the impact of trust and being trustworthy as a leader. A reinforcement survey is a series of questions to learn about activities and situations a follower finds reinforcing, such as hobbies and how employees spend their free time. Trust is a reliance on character, capability, or truth.

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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business

. “Merit is vastly more important than gender or race, and efforts to ‘balance’ gender and race diminish the overall quality of an organization by reducing collective merit of the personnel,” a male engineer commented in the survey. Said another , women “will always be safe from a RIF [reduction in force].

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Understanding Customers by Blending Human Insight and Machine Learning

Harvard Business

In a given year, we receive approximately 13 million unstructured text submissions and over 307,000 photos and videos from about 167,000 diverse contributors, all of whom are answering open-ended questions posed by us, as well as generating their own conversations on topics of their choosing.