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Emotional Intelligence – The Hard Truth About Soft Skills - Click To Read Article
How are your people skills? Academic research has shown that people with high Emotional Intelligence are more successful in business and in life. Emotional Intelligence refers to how well you know yourself, your ability to effectively manage your emotions, and how well you interact with others. Emotional Intelligence is a critical competency for leaders. It is very common in technical fields for people to be promoted to management because they excelled as technicians without much regard for their people skills. Unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed.
5 Common Mistakes That New Leaders Make - Click To Read Article
Moving from an individual performer role into management can be a challenging transition. Quite often, individual performers are promoted before they are ready to take on a leadership role. And once on the job, these new supervisors, team leaders, and managers struggle to develop the skills they need to succeed. Most experienced leaders will admit to having made more than a few mistakes, especially during their younger years. This article looks at five of the more common mistakes that newly promoted leaders tend to make.
The Path to Productivity - Click To Read Article
Do you sometimes feel like you spend most of your work day putting out fires? Often it seems we’re so busy putting out those daily fires that we don’t ever get to accomplish anything of real significance—those things that would make us the most successful in the long run. Every day becomes something to “get through” instead of an exciting path to greater fulfillment. We all have the same amount of time; it's what we do with the time we have that makes the difference.
The Leader As Coach - Click To Read Article
With the changing demographics of the workforce - retirement of the Boomers and entry of Gen Y - as well as the prevalence of distributed work teams, there is a growing trend for managers to take more of a coach-like approach to leading their teams, especially when those teams are made up of knowledge workers. This article looks at how coaching is different from traditional management and identifies three crucial skills for effective coaching in the workplace.
Active Listening: A Critical Success Factor - Click To Read Article
In management and sales, active listening is a critical success factor. A focus on listening can lead to more effective teamwork, higher productivity, fewer conflicts and errors, enhanced innovation and problem-solving, improved recruiting and retention, superior customer relations and more. As authors on leadership development have noted through the years, listening is not just a nice thing to do, it’s essential!
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