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The Rise of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters More Than Ever

N2Growth Blog

Whether resolving conflicts, motivating team members, or managing stress, EQ drives the leader’s actions and reactions. We live in an era of digital connectivity, where businesses must adapt swiftly to changing market trends and shifting customer expectations. At the heart of this adaptation lies strong leadership.

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Protecting Your Employees (and Yourself) from the Stress-Connection Gap

Michael Lee Stallard

The nature of modern work has caused stress to rise to unhealthy levels at a time when people are also struggling with increased isolation. These and other factors have squeezed out time for face-to-face human connection, which has contributed to a public health crisis that is even more deadly than the crisis from rising obesity.

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How Age Is Linked To Housing Stress

The Horizons Tracker

The cost of living pressures are pretty universal, but when it comes to housing specifically, research from the UNSW Canberra suggests that it’s particularly hard for adults under 25, whose rate of housing stress is three times greater than those over 65. In the initial year of entering housing stress, renters have a 39.4%

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Combatting America’s Health Crisis from Loneliness

Michael Lee Stallard

Cigna’s national survey on the impact of loneliness adds to other research that points to an epidemic of loneliness and social isolation in America and other market democracies, including the UK, Germany and Australia. Protecting Your Employees (and Yourself) from the Stress-Connection Gap. It’s also a superpower for organizations.

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When Leadership is Unstable, Drop an Anchor

Lead Change Blog

Topsy turvy markets. During a crisis season, our CEO told every employee, “If you don’t know what to do, just add value.” It’s counterintuitive, but releasing your grip also relieves accompanying stress. Serial reorgs. Debilitating mid-year budget cuts. Hiring freezes and RIFs. Nebulous succession plans. Maybe you have too.

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Leaders: Build Your Pre-Resilience for Times of Crisis

Strategy Driven

Your organization is going to face a crisis. Our world is too complex, markets too volatile, and technology too fast-paced for us to relax into complacency about organizational safety and normalcy. Organizations turn to their leaders with intensified demands during crisis. This is not a question of IF but WHEN.

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What it Takes to be an Entrepreneurial Leader

Leading Blog

To be able to meet the needs of the enterprise, the entrepreneur must be able to demonstrate five skills , consistently in high-stress situations: self-awareness, facility with the basics of the business, relationship building, motivation, and leading change. Stage four should not require the founder.