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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

McKinsey recently noted, “Numerous studies show that in a business-as-usual environment, compassionate leaders perform better and foster more loyalty and engagement by their teams. 1 Connecting authentically as a fellow human with what the team is experiencing is what really sets the stage for strong business recovery and growth.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

January 19th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Today’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo at The thoughtLEADERS Blog. Whether they are looking within their own team, the broader organization, or outside the company, a good leader always has a notion of who will be sitting in their chair next. Carry that mindset over to your team.

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Why a Leadership Checklist

Coaching Tip

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. © 2011 Michael Useem, author of The Leader's Checklist. By Michael Useem, Author of The Leader's Checklist.

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'Woman Up' (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female.

Strategy Driven

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Follow your leadership team, listen to your newest hires, put yourself where they are, and hear the other perspectives. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

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What Europe Can Teach the US About Gender in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. But when the leadership of teams is homogenous — read: dominated by white males — the risk of trouble soars. Italy and the Netherlands have also seen an increase since adopting quotas.

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Africa's Growth Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

Social media teams – agency and corporate alike – are seeing their ability to add headcounts slow. The new reality for communicators at all levels is that we have to develop deeper, broader and more integrated social media skill sets -- for ourselves, our teams and our businesses. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges.

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