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Which Emotional Intelligence Skills Drive High Performance?

July 10, 2023
Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

A guide to the 5 emotional intelligence skills that consistently show up in effective leaders.   The research is clear: emotional intelligence is the number one predictor of leadership success. Up to 90% of leadership effectiveness is due to the leader’s EQ or emotional quotient. How? Mostly through these five emotional intelligence skills that show up consistently in successful leaders. Together, these skills create the ability to respond in the moment to others in a way that will result in…

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Why High Trust Cultures Create High Performing Companies

February 24, 2023
blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development, Leadership

If you want to build a high performing company, start by building a high trust culture through emotional intelligence. Some people think employees are inherently untrustworthy, lazy and self-serving. Others believe employees are inherently trustworthy and motivated by a sense of pride in their work. Who is right? Research says: they are both right. As it turns out, the assumptions that managers make about employees determines the outcome. If you start with an emotional intelligence approach and build trust, you…

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My Gratitude Project 2024

November 10, 2024
blog, Gratitude Project

Welcome to My Gratitude Project 2024 where I am celebrating the small things I’m grateful for every day in November. Nov. 2 Every year in November, I practice 30 days of gratitude.* Taking time to be grateful about what is going right grounds me and helps me focus on what I want more of in my life. Amid epidemic levels of anxiety and uncertainty, practicing gratitude is something we can all do to remind ourselves of what is good. Beauty,…

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5 Tips for Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

October 14, 2024
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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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psychological safety

What is Psychological Safety and How Does it Improve Performance?

September 19, 2024
blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development, Leadership

Psychological safety helps you catch and correct mistakes instead of retaliating, blaming, or shaming. It is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Psychological safety is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or blamed in any way for mistakes on the job. It describes an office culture where people accept that mistakes will be made, and that the best way to deal with them is to work together to catch…

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

August 12, 2024
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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…

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The Advantage of Trust for High Performance

March 19, 2024
blog, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership

Trust is the glue that sticks teams together. 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. Trust helps teams overcome the divisions, egos, and disagreements that splinter teams and distract from performance. Trust is a Virtuous Cycle The advantage of trust is that it allows people to calm down and focus on common goals. That’s the…

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