Emotional self-awareness is the most important skill for leadership effectiveness.
The key to emotional self-expression is the Goldilocks rule: not too much, not too little, just right.
Most people will meet your expectations. Give your team something to aim for. Our desire to fit in and meet expectations is a powerful innate motivator that is universal. It’s a powerful tool that leaders in every office can use to improve performance of whole teams. If you give people the conditions and expectations to grow, you will find that in nearly every case, they meet or exceed expectations. Imagine for a moment, a gardener taking two seeds from the…