Leadership is getting others to believe in you and your ideas. It’s the foundation of success in every career. Find practical leadership tips on my blog.
A Primer for What It Looks Like to be Low or High in These Key Emotional Intelligence Skills Emotional intelligence is a set of skills that give you the ability to be aware of your own and others’ emotions and to use that information strategically to make better decisions. We can talk about emotional intelligence skills in a lot of different ways, but five skills show up consistently in effective leaders. These skills are: What does it look like to…
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The Key Elements for Promotability are Rooted in Emotional Intelligence What executives and upper management know that individual contributors often miss, is that being seen and heard are important to being promoted into leadership. Studies on promotability have confirmed what other studies have already established, that emotional intelligence—particularly emotional awareness—is essential for promotability and career advancement. The other three traits you need to demonstrate in a workplace to be seen as ripe for promotion are Strategic Thinking, Thought Leadership, and…
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Know which leadership styles contribute to high performance and which negatively affect productivity Good leaders have a variety of different strategies and leadership styles that inspire others to achieve even ambitious goals. The more emotional intelligence they have, the better they know how to motivate the right people in the right way at the right time. It’s helpful to think of leadership like a toolkit. If you’re a builder and you only know how to use a hammer, you’re going…
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Recounting my experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, my story provides a blueprint for using entrepreneurship to make the world better. I’m very excited to announce that my book, Bag Lady: How I Started a Business for a Greener World and Changed the Way America Shops, will be released on Earth Day, April 22, 2022. Those of you who have known me for a while, may remember me in my previous career as a leading supplier of reusable bags in the…
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Improving emotional intelligence is the key to getting work done through other people The job of every manager is to get work done through other people. How you manage your team members creates the difference between average results and high performance. Unmotivated people do their job because they have to. Motivated people go above and beyond because they want to. When that happens, even ambitious goals become reachable. If you create the conditions to inspire your team to direct all…
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