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

General Leadership

” Daniel Goleman. If our skills, competencies and judgment get us our leadership roles – it’s our Emotional Quotient (EQ), or Emotional Intelligence , that keeps us there and propels us forward into greater leadership scope, work footprint, scale and reach. He was also a former U.S as our free gift to you!

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Great Leadership: a Lot of This and That

Persuasive Powerhouse

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation.

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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.

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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

What do they say about meeting leadership and culture? When leaders sharpen their meeting leadership skills and practice good meeting hygiene, team collaboration, psychological safety to speak up, team results, engagement, and energy levels soar. Who attends them? Who gets most of the airtime? How much diversity is encouraged?

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

The Practical Leader

The behaviors of the leadership team are THE single biggest influence on what’s expected/rewarded and discouraged or unacceptable for everyone else. ” We’ve facilitated dozens of team development sessions (often as part of a virtual or in-person leadership team retreat ). ” The post Scream Team or Dream Team?

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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