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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. The best managers recognize that 1:1s are not an add-on to their role as a manager. Conducting 1:1s successfully are foundational to being a manager.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on… Strong Leaders Boosting Positive Emotions

The Practical Leader

Adding to last week’s blog on Emotions at Work … If you ask subordinates what they want in a leader, they usually list three things: direction or vision, trustworthiness, and optimism. – Loren Gary, “Becoming a Resonant Leader,” Harvard Management Update Special Report. Emotions are contagious.

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5 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Workshops Fail

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues In the 1990’s, Daniel Goleman and other authors introduced and popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Goleman, in particular, suggested that EI includes self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2002).

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2019 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2019 that you don't want to miss: 6 Tips for First-Time Managers by @JesseLynStoner. Leadership Development: It Isn't All About You via @Korn_Ferry by Daniel Goleman. Why time management is ruining our lives by Oliver Burkeman. Starting Strong as a New Manager by @artpetty.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/30/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "McKinsey Quarterly: Top Ten Newsletter (Third Quarter 2013)" "Six Lessons for Managing CEO transitions" "The Corner Office" "The luck factor in all human experience" Adam Bryant Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had His Top Execs Read These Three Books Are you a Diminisher or a Multiplier?

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Leading Change with Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

EQ expert Daniel Goleman credits emotional intelligence for 90% of the difference between star performers and average ones in senior leadership roles. Self-management is the ability to leverage the awareness of your emotions to respond to situations in positive and productive ways. Empathy is a crucial component of social awareness.

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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Goleman, 2007).”. Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). Even managers told me they couldn’t change their dreadful workdays! Its basic question is: Will this threat eat me, or can I eat it?