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.
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.
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…
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…
Affirmations are about actually believing in yourself. When that happens, you start making it true.
Every organization needs at least one person who can help manage conflicts. As one of the hardest-to-find skills and also hardest to develop, conflict management can give you a competitive edge as an employee. Find my new blog on conflict management at the Ace Up coaching platform blog.
Can you learn Emotional Intelligence? The short answer is: yes! Three tips to increase your EI.