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Mastering the Middle: Unlocking Your Company's Hidden Potential.

Rich Gee Group

People Management: This encompasses a wide range of sub-skills, from delegation and conflict resolution to coaching and performance management. Emotional intelligence, or EQ, includes empathy, self-awareness, self-regulation, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence: This skill is crucial for middle managers.

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Recognizing Habits That Undermine Goals

Coaching Tip

Minds at Work in Cambridge, Mass, founded by Robert Kegan, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Lisa Lahey, a development psychologist who also teaches at Harvard, guides executives through a step-by-step process of self-examination and gradual behavioral change. If you are stuck, get unstuck. Here's how.

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Why Aren't You Delegating?

Harvard Business Review

But there is: delegation. Delegation is a critical skill. Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. A 2007 study on time management found that close to half of the 332 companies surveyed were concerned about their employees' delegation skills. Understand why you're not delegating.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

They tend to be impatient with or hypercritical of others and they're not good at delegating. "On Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above). Increase self-awareness. Case Study #1: Find a better job fit.

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How to Break Your Addiction to Work

Harvard Business Review

In other words, your self-worth should not revolve around your status, paycheck, and prestige; it should take into account the quality of your relationships, your engagement in your community, and your physical and emotional well-being. Case Study #1: Seek encouragement and reset your colleagues’ expectations.

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