N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

For instance, the skills and competencies sought in top-level executives are evolving, focusing more on essential leadership traits (once called “soft skills” like empathy, adaptability, resilience, and emotional intelligence).

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

Persuasion – Leaders and hiring managers value individuals who can explain the “why.” Learn adaptability in this course—free through January 31: Managing Stress for Positive Change with Heid Hanna. Time management – This is perhaps less surprising, especially given the complexity of modern working life.

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Lead from Within

MAY 6, 2024

Avoid using unnecessary jargon and opt for plain language that your audience can easily understand. Research from the Harvard Business Review suggests that clear communication is vital for leadership success. Simplify your message without sacrificing its substance. Remember, effective leaders communicate with clarity and precision.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

Anne Perschel of Germane Consulting submitted Speed & Beauty of Emotional Intelligence Examined. Anne shares, “The speed, beauty and effectiveness of emotional intelligence is exemplified by Ted Kennedy’s announcement, to a mostly black audience, that Martin Luther King had been murdered.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 1, 2018

So knowing your audience is paramount, and business leaders who score high in the effective use of humor also tend to score high in emotional intelligence. Audience: “Who’s there?” Jamie Anderson is Professor of Strategic Management at Antwerp Management School, and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. CEO: “China!”

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Last week I delivered an interactive keynote presentation on “Preparing Yourself to Negotiate” to about 200 global managers and executives. One of the fun things about the session was the cool software we had that allowed the audience to use their phones to contribute to word clouds on my slide deck.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers strive to be one. But being a first-time manager requires a whole new set of skills —for example, emotional intelligence—that are more important than technical expertise. Many managers either haven’t had the opportunity to develop these skills, are resistant to doing so, or don’t have an interest in them.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

Of course, humor can be highly subjective and what one person finds hilarious another person may not – so knowing your audience is paramount. It is therefore not surprising that business leaders who score high in the effective use of humor as a tool to boost innovation also tend to score high in emotional intelligence.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 18, 2017

Great businesses have already mastered this, weaving carefully-crafted messages that draw in target audiences. Not to say that their effectiveness is attributable to emotional intelligence. They take care of their people and make sure everybody gets fed. Successful leadership assumes many forms. Take Planet Fitness, for example.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

Leaders will have to go much farther than their usual efforts to break down silos and create collaborative platforms, and they will be called on to manage vast knowledge pools and coordinate the skills of experts from myriad fields. declared without context or supportive action to an audience of strangers. Yvonne Sell, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Gemma’s manager enjoys dealing with her, as she rarely complains about anything, is reliable and dependable, and shows great levels of organizational citizenship. Furthermore, Gemma’s personality also means that she is generally engaged at work, even when her boss is not doing a great job at managing her.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 1, 2010

If I could have a “do-over” for that original event, here is what I would do: Brainstorm the questions and practice the answers beforehand: I would brainstorm the questions that the audience may ask, and practice the answers. Having some tools in your “anger management” toolkit will help. In short, I would be better prepared.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Since the release of my first book last fall, I’ve been on an incredible journey speaking to organizations and audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and the US, sharing my insights on leadership and how leaders can encourage and support their employees to bring their full selves to the work they do.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 9, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Here are five blog posts that I particularly enjoyed over the week of May 3rd to May 9th, 2010.    Enjoy!

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. More important, even if you managed to get all the spilled water on the ground back into the glass, at that point would you still want to drink it? Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 7, 2015

Over the past few months, I’ve been noticing a common thread in my work with various leaders and organizations, as well through my various speaking engagements with audiences in Canada and the US. This is why we see so much being written today about the importance of emotional intelligence to succeeding at leadership.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

You might want to view (or review) the session on your own or share it with your management team and/or improvement professionals concerned with leadership and culture development. A selection of articles and excerpts and blog posts on Emotional Intelligence.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 27, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   Ted not only attracts brilliant presenters, but also an incredibly intelligent audience.  License. .    The format of a TED talk is also unique. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Not a problem, Bryan also takes calls from audience members who can share their thoughts or experiences on what they see happening in their respective HR departments which further adds to the dialog and breadth of the show.  License. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 23, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!   One of the things that I have found most beneficial from writing this blog is how it has helped me to learn more and more about the world of HR, leadership development, and talent management and progressed my own professional development. 

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers. What are the 8 skills?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Audiences both learn about your abilities and see you demonstrate concern for others. New research, based on a series of 11 studies, suggests that dual promotion — in which you compliment a colleague or peer while talking about your own accomplishments — can both boost perceptions of warmth without harming perceptions of competence.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 14, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License. .  I was pleased to find that John's latest book, Outstanding!

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 2, 2015

Given the positive response I got from the other audience members, I decided this would be a good story to share with my readers to continue our discussion on how we can bring out the best in those we lead, especially in the face of the growing demands and distractions we face every day at work.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. Tailors his/her communications style to the needs of the particular audience. Mark: October 22, 2010 at 12:49 pm An interesting list of actions and activities, ones to utilize as a manager. Why is that?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 24, 2019

The only real audience was the TV crew and her cohort. Then, through a number of carefully designed interventions, they were able to successfully increase the perception of charisma in a group of mid-level managers. The only real judgment was that which she bore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The audience laughed. One year and many events, courses, and programs later, the MBA students are still just beginning to understand the value of mindfulness in their roles as managers and leaders. He began his lecture to a packed auditorium with a question: “Why did you all come here today?” You and Your Team. Mindfulness.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Empathy is a core component of emotional intelligence. As you prepare, step into the shoes of your audience. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! Some people are in our empathy circle, others are excluded. What makes the difference? Strangers don’t.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

Numerous studies have shown that employees have higher expectations of their leaders to not simply be effective at managing tasks, but at developing people. Leadership Insight #7 – Our compassion motivates us to listen and learn about what our employees need to be successful [ Share on Twitter ].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Many people and a host of commentators instinctively recoiled at the callous management practices described in a scathing New York Times article last month about Amazon. It is a deep emotional intelligence that is closely connected to cultural competence. You need empathy to know who those audiences are and what they want.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

However, for medium complexity jobs, such as trainers or first line sales managers, that difference grows to 85-100%, and for highly complex jobs, such as senior leadership roles, the contribution of top performers is more than double that of the average performer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A strategic approach to managing digital networks and collaboration at the company level can help us better understand which types of digital communication are productive, to both employees and the firm. Prediction is less common because surprisingly few management processes actually incorporate prediction today, but that is changing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

I think of this quote often when observing executives with a “little knowledge” of emotional intelligence (also called “EQ”). Don’t get me wrong; the beneficial insights and managerial advances derived from research on emotional intelligence have been game changing. Managing people' His secret is empathy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

So my self-reported profile may suggest that I see myself as a persuasive speaker – but tell that to the audience who just fell asleep. Levels of team coordination and conflict management were also assessed. For example, self-management training can help people plan, apply, monitor, and adjust their newly learned competencies.

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