Emotional self-awareness is the most important skill for leadership effectiveness.
If you want to build a high performing company, start by building a high trust culture through emotional intelligence.
Emotions can help us improve decision making. Unfortunately, emotions can also get in the way. The key is to make decisions based on emotional intelligence, not raw emotions.
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…
My new post in Forbes can help you remove judgment from your managing style and encourage others more positively.
When you have true self-regard, you can look yourself in the eye on your worst day and still believe in your best self.