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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. We often discuss how very smart leaders with deep technical expertise frequently direct rather than develop others. Their team members call this micromanagement.

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. Some people learn strong values of respect in their development and some don’t. Independence is often required to make final decisions.

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What the Dalai Lama Taught Daniel Goleman About Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

Two decades before Daniel Goleman first wrote about emotional intelligence in the pages of HBR, he met his holiness the 14 th Dalai Lama at Amherst College, who mentioned to the young science journalist for the New York Times that he was interested in meeting with scientists. Goleman: Yes, an important difference. You and Your Team.

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How to Work with Someone You Hate

Harvard Business Review

Some people are there, like it or not," points out Daniel Goleman, the co-director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University and author of The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights. Goleman says the first step is to manage it. But proceed cautiously. Principles to Remember.

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Scream Team or Dream Team? A 10 Point Team Check Up

The Practical Leader

” We’ve facilitated dozens of team development sessions (often as part of a virtual or in-person leadership team retreat ). .” Decades of Emotional Intelligence research shows that groups of leaders can be individually brilliant and a collective bunch of dim wits. ” The post Scream Team or Dream Team?

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

While Goleman and other popular writers argue that (unlike IQ) EQ is malleable and trainable, EQ is really just a combination of personality traits. Here are five critical steps for developing EQ: Turn self-deception into self-awareness. Rewarding people tend to be cooperative, friendly, trusting, and unselfish.