If you are looking for inspirational reading to increase your leadership effectiveness in 2023, check out these ten popular posts.
I trust my readers to tell me what they like. These popular posts are a great summary of the ideas behind my work as a coach and corporate trainer.
Besides the top five posts on my blog, I’m also sharing the most popular posts that I shared on my social media as a research round-up about why emotional intelligence matters. Together, these ten articles are a great way to find out how you can inspire your team to higher performance in 2023.l
Here are the five most popular posts on my blog in 2022.
- Be a Leader, Not a Boss: How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. My article in Forbes about how I learned to stop bossing people around and start inspiring them.
- How does Developing Emotional Intelligence Drive High Performance and Productivity. The link between emotional intelligence and high performance explained.
- Five Ways Emotional Self-Expression Helps Motivate Your Team. What you say and how you say it matters. Five tips for communicating more effectively at work.
- Empathy: One of the Six Behaviors that Build Relationships of Trust and Belonging for High Performance. How good leaders use positive behaviors to build teams where everyone feels they belong and are valuable contributors.
- Three Tips for How Leaders Can Use Expectations to Develop High Performing Teams. Most teams will meet your expectations. Give them something to aim for.
And here are the 5 most popular articles I shared in 2022 from other writers and institutions I admire.
- Why Compassion is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness. Brilliant post in HBR from Dr. Emma Seppala about how toughness often backfires and de-motivates team members.
- No More Mr. Nice Guy. Fantastic research from Gallup validating what we always knew: The problem with traditional command-and-control performance management: It never worked.
- Trust is in Decline: Here is How To Build It. Gallup shows how authenticity, transparency and leadership create cultures of trust for organizations with better retention and engagement.
- The Power of EI: How Do Emotional and Social Competencies Relate to Leadership and Effectiveness? Meta-study showing that emotional intelligence–and particularly emotional self-awareness–is predictive of leadership effectiveness.
- Attracting and Retaining the Right Talent. Analysis of high performance and how the very best workers do the best and the most work. And how companies often fail to retain them.
Also, Bag Lady is in the top 20 for Green Business for 2022! If you are looking for more inspiring reading and how I learned to be a leader and not a boss, check it out!
Sending my wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive 2023 to all!