Learning Culture: Help Your Team Grow and Improve

A learning culture encourages a growth mindset and psychological safety. It is the best way to help your employees learn what they need to succeed.

How Leaders Trained in Emotional Intelligence Create High Performing Teams

December 17, 2021

Trust and Building Teams

EQ training is a tactical advantage for improving performance up and down the company structure. Leaders Trained in Emotional Intelligence Are the Basis for High Performing Teams What benefits your company more: focusing on numbers or focusing on people? Successful companies are finding that financial performance comes from a people centered approach, in other words, based on emotional intelligence. If that sounds expensive, just think: what is the cost of not focusing on your people? This content has been replaced…

The 5 Benefits of Emotional Intelligence for Leaders in Today’s Global Economy

December 9, 2021

Trust and Building Teams

Leaders with high emotional intelligence skills create higher performing companies using the benefits of emotional intelligence Emotional intelligence, once sidelined as a soft skill, has emerged as the essential competitive advantage of high performing companies. Research and experience both confirm that emotional intelligence is the single most important predictor of leadership effectiveness, employee effectiveness, engagement, and innovation. Luckily, anyone can learn how to get the benefits of emotional intelligence. Leaders with low EQ tend to rely on authority, tests of loyalty,…

What Is “Emotional Intelligence” and How Is It Defined for Today’s Leaders?

September 29, 2021

Alignment and Effective 1:1s

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware emotions and to use emotional information strategically to make better decisions. People who build those skills make better decisions, develop more fulfilling relationships, and are more effective as leaders.

Boo! Seven Ways to Handle Fear

October 28, 2019

Confidence and Managing Yourself

We all handle fear in our particular way. Some ways are healthier than others. Some of us love to be scared. Some of us not so much. As I’ve written before, emotions are filed away in our brains as if there were a file drawer for each emotion. Everything you have ever been afraid of gets filed in the fear drawer, or neural network as a psychologist would call it. If you have unresolved fears from the past, those old…

New Poll on Why Positive Feedback Matters

October 23, 2019

Alignment and Effective 1:1s

Positive feedback leads to better results and happier employees. Gallup, the polling agency that has been focusing on employee engagement, is just out with new numbers and a white paper on “Why Employees are Fed Up with Feedback.” Their polling reveals how negative feedback demotivates managers and employees alike in overwhelming numbers. As Gallup reports, only 14% of managers feel good about their ability to give feedback. And a whopping 89.1% of employees who get negative feedback report feeling not…

5 Tips for Crafting Affirmations that Actually Work

October 2, 2019

Confidence and Managing Yourself

Affirmations are about actually believing in yourself. When that happens, you start making it true.