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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have emotional intelligence? Either way, emotional intelligence can affect your career. Emotional intelligence encourages us to make good decisions and communicate effectively despite negative emotions and stress.

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Choose growth

Lead Change Blog

His hammers, screwdrivers, and pieces of wood showed me the power of choosing a growth mindset in lieu of settling for a fixed one. Little did I realize it at the time, but Dad demonstrating his willingness to let go of what he thought the solution was and to try other things was an invaluable gift. Be curious, not indifferent.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work.

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The Difference Between Doing and Mastering

The Recovering Engineer

I have even learned what it means to hammer on and pull off. I don’t model the ease and beauty of playing that you might see in a true guitar master like Eric Clapton or Jim Croce (yes, I am showing my age), I can manage to, generally, make sounds that resemble music. I know how to make my left hand create a number of chords.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

For example, I can use a hammer to build a house or to attack my neighbor. In both cases, the hammer is just a hammer. The DISC model is just an observation about human nature and human behavior. It has no moral or ethical standing on its own. It is just like any other tool.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.  Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail.

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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together

Harvard Business Review

If your employees aren’t behaving well, and you’ve already gone through the trouble of hammering home the organization’s civility message, ask yourself, “Have I equipped them to succeed?” ” Don’t assume everyone knows how to be civil; many people never learned the basic skills.

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