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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

The good news for many of us is that our IQ is less important to success and happiness than our EQ (Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence). I’ve extensively quoted and cited the expanding body of emotional intelligence (EI) research for many years in my writing and workshops. Too many are bully bosses.

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

But people still turn to human managers who can understand how they feel, c oach them in their careers, and build culture. According to a recent Price Waterhouse Cooper CEO survey, 77 percent of CEOs say they struggle to find the creativity and innovation they need. When connection matters, there’s no substitute for a human being.

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How Women Can Build Careers as Business Leaders

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women have unique skills and abilities that make them innately great leaders, but women are still very much in the minority in the world of business leadership. ” Read the full interview: How Women Can Build Careers via humanresources.about.com.

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Authenticity: Beyond Leadership Doing to Being

The Practical Leader

Neuroscientist and Emotional Intelligence author, Robert Cooper, made several trips to Tibet as part of his research on the inner side of leadership. ” Authentic Leadership Isn’t Just What We Do, But Who We Are Action is the outer expression of leadership. We can teach people leadership actions.

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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

The Silent Power Behind Emotional Intelligence. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” Our total Emotional Quotient in this model consists of five category areas divided into two dimensions. ” Daniel Goleman. You lose all around. It’s just that simple.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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