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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part Two)

Lead Change Blog

In this post , I presented three reality checks leaders must give themselves in 2016. On top of hard managerial, left-brain skills that drive bottom-line results, they have uncanny intuition and perception to understand the emotional realities of the circumstances and people around them. Remember, these are learned traits.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

On top of hard managerial, left-brain skills that drive bottom-line results, they have uncanny intuition and perception to understand the emotional realities of the circumstances and people around them. They will then operate on those realities, often in support of elevating their own and other people’s behaviors and actions.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. They are loaded with Roberts' experience, story, brio, provocation and direction.

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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

In fact, research in neuroscience suggests that you can transform simple, daily activities – like brushing your teeth, commuting to work, and preparing coffee – into opportunities to change both the function and structure of your brain in ways that improve both business acumen and emotional intelligence, two key drivers of leadership performance.

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My Top 10 Leadership Insights For 2015

Tanveer Naseer

To that end, as we make plans for what we’d like to achieve in 2016, here’s a look at my Top 10 Leadership Insights from 2015, insights that can help you to use your leadership to not only drive success in your organization in 2016, but create that kind of environment that will allow your employees to thrive under your care.

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Younger and Older Executives Need Different Things from Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. Our study was published in Consulting Psychology Journal in December 2016. We examined data from 72 executive coaching engagements we conducted from 2008 to 2014.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

The results of these studies, captured from subjects operating under real or near-real conditions, has put the nature vs nurture debate on leadership to rest. The discovery of the mirror neurons network in the brain in the 1980s has led to research that points to their involvement in social cognition, empathy and emotional intelligence.