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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

Either way, emotional intelligence can affect your career. John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work. It assumes a kind of superiority over their leadership role, where they indiscriminately use it to gain power and prestige.

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5 Ways to Encourage Your Team Toward “Yes You Can”

Let's Grow Leaders

Sure this exercise had worked in other contexts, but I had never worked in this industry before. Not just in a hammer and nail sort of way. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement Everything Else encouraging your team helping your team get unstuck' No time for second guessing.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

I have been a leader throughout my whole career which started in late teens when I was fortunate enough to be provided with an opportunity to participate in a two-year supervisor traineeship with a large retailer in Adelaide. Industries we have worked within include finance, architecture, recruitment, health, government and local council.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. Then tweak it for the position, the industry, etc.,” Get the order right.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a proverb that says, “ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&#. We seem to be hanging onto the models of thinking and practices of the industrial age for dear life! Mental Models: are, simply put, about assumptions and biases in our thinking. And it’s costing us big time!

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Addiction Marketing

N2Growth Blog

The Beer and Alcohol Industry - You will be hard pressed to find a beer or alcohol company that doesn’t portray consumption of their beverage as the key ingredient to a lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, successful careers, etc. How about the social networking industry? What about other fast food outlets?

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