A positive workplace results in more productivity and success. Find practical tips on how to create a more positive workplace on my blog.
If you have true self-regard, you can look yourself in the eye on your worst day and still believe in your best self. What is Self-Regard? Self-regard means liking the way you are, the good, the bad, and everything in between. It is related to self-confidence, but it’s even bigger. It is the essential starting place for emotional intelligence and leadership. You need to believe in yourself before others will believe in you. When you have self-regard, you know your…
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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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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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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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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? Increasingly, companies that make the…
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