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Fostering Leadership Excellence: How to Develop Your Team for Success

Lead from Within

There are several strategies that leaders can implement to fostering excellence with their team: Provide training and development opportunities: Providing training and development opportunities can help leaders improve their leadership skills and knowledge. This can include attending workshops or courses on leadership.

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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

I’ve extensively quoted and cited the expanding body of emotional intelligence (EI) research for many years in my writing and workshops. This rigorous and ever-deepening research provides hard evidence for the catalytic power of “ soft skills ” in personal, team, and organizational performance. Something is missing.

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Win/Win: Workplace Well-Being Boosts Company-Well Being

The Practical Leader

BUT…many senior executives still consider “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, perceptions, engagement, and the like secondary to “hard decisions” such as strategies, investments, financial systems/analysis, technology, automation, AI, etc. Everybody wins.

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Questions and Complex Problems

Mike Cardus

As I started a recent workshop on using solution-focused to solve complex problems , I overheard one of the participants say, “I don’t understand how asking a question can solve a problem.” Passive Resistance: the other person finds a less obvious way, and may appear to be helpful, yet is still not being cooperative.

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Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 Posted by: mike Hard Skill, Soft Skill Purchase the E-Book: How to Lead Awesome Team-Building Programs Did you ever wonder “How does one lead AWESOME team-building programs? All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence

Mike Cardus

Kathy “ Well they are saying that they did not know it would be this much of a commitment”, Me “Hmm… we covered all that in the 1st workshop…OK let’s set up a meeting.”. The same group of managers who were enthusiastic about management development and applied leadership to the organization, turned from cooperators to resistors in 3 days!

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Intergenerational Leadership Begins with Us: We Have More in Common Than We Thought

Great Leadership By Dan

Openness to diverse ideas and ability to encourage cooperation and collaboration. While we can spend a lifetime improving our skills, here are two ideas to help us be better leaders wherever we are. It starts with our conversations.