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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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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. Highlight emotions.

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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. Organizational Talent Consulting. Being trustworthy brings out the best in others and the workplace. Trust is a reliance on character, capability, or truth. Trustworthy synonyms include reliable, dependable, honest, and ethical.

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Mentor People Who Aren’t Like You

Harvard Business

Otherwise, we do what’s comfortable, and we risk saying with our actions that we care about cultivating the talents of a homogeneous few. Related Video. It has made me a more empathic, emotionally intelligent leader. That’s the example we end up setting, the culture we end up building.

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2 Leadership Tactics for Motivating Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

But work motivation is not commonly understood and is a growing source of frustration for leaders in a complex employee-driven talent marketplace. Emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationship quality. Numerous studies suggest that work motivation regulates high-quality performance and creativity. Psychological needs.

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

Harvard Business

Note the undefended assumption that tapping the full talent pool of engineers rather than limiting hiring to a subgroup (white men) will decrease the quality of engineers hired. Engineering purity also lets engineers who are low in social or emotional intelligence off the hook. But not “pure” engineers.

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Amanda Gorman — 22-year-old Poet

CaseInterview.com

That person is thinking to themselves, “Damn… I’m good at spotting talent early.”. Here are the video and transcript of Gorman’s poem from Harvard’s website… Did I mention that Harvard is thrilled to call Gorman an alumna? To see the video recording of her poem recitation and read the transcript, Click Here.