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5 Tips for Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

October 14, 2024

If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try these 5 tips for improving team performance. What most people want to know is how does emotional intelligence make people more successful, and more to the point, how can you raise the EQ of yourself or your team. There are a lot of things you can do to improve how you motivate and manage your team. My new blog on LinkedIn explores 5 simple techniques for becoming more effective as a…

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What is Psychological Safety at Work and How Does it Improve Performance?

September 19, 2024

Trust at Work

Psychological safety at work helps teams catch and correct mistakes—without blame, shame, or retaliation. Key Takeaways Psychological safety at work is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Let’s start with a definition. Psychological safety at work is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or blamed for mistakes on the job. It describes an office culture where people accept that: Psychological safety at work has been in the news lately.…

Five Tips for High-Stakes Deals Demonstrated by Evan Gershkovitz’s Fierce Mother

August 12, 2024

Confidence at Work

The historic prisoner swap offers a case study in what it takes to succeed at making complex, high-stakes deals. For most businesses, high-stakes deals involve not lives but livelihoods, affecting dozens or even hundreds of individuals. Negotiations are often fierce. Looking at the prisoner swap completed on Aug. 1, 2024 in hindsight, there are a few key principles that underlie complex deals of all kinds and what it takes to break through when you are dealing with tough people on…

How to Double Team Results: Boost Trust Like this Manager Did

March 19, 2024

Trust at Work

Without the advantage of trust, the smartest, most experienced team will become distracted by conflict and division. You need it to inspire your team, find consensus, and bring out everyone’s best efforts.

Delegate Responsibility, Not Tasks

March 10, 2024

Team Alignment & 1:1s

My new blog in Forbes offers two great tips to help you delegate responsibility for better results. When people don’t know how to delegate effectively, a lot of problems can happen. Often, managers who aren’t sure how to do it just take on the work themselves. That can lead to burn out. Others try to micro-manage and show direct reports exactly the steps to get things done. This can leave direct reports feeling powerless and frustrated. When things don’t go…

Build Better Relationships with Emotional Intelligence

February 7, 2024

Empathy in Leadership, Trust at Work

Building better relationships is a skill we all need for success at work and in life. Some people are simply better at building better relationships than others. If your team lacks cohesion and members tend to remain siloed or in conflict, good news! We can all learn to become better at building mutually satisfying and fulfilling relationships. Naturally, due to childhood experiences and inclination, different people have different styles of relating to others. Psychologists call this your attachment style. Some…