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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

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The emotion of the team is a sum-total of emotions and feelings that members of the team experience. Left unnoticed, unexpressed, and unattended, these emotions can grow toxic to harm relationships or grossly undermine team’s potential. The post Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence first appeared on QAspire.

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Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact

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Mark Miller ‘s book “ Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact ” offers excellent guidance on how to escape the quicksand by making right choices that sit at the heart of leadership. This guidance is vital because no team/individual/organization simply drifts towards greatness.

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Measuring Right: Understanding Goodhart’s Law

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A bank executive once insisted that I do him a favor by getting a free credit card (even when I did not require it). Reframe metrics as a tool to learn and adapt: Build team rituals to have a dialogue on leading indicators to learn, adapt and course correct. If you don’t frame your metrics right, they can distort behaviors.

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Mindful Leadership: Productivity and Presence

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It derails our leadership, intent and outcomes. Leadership presence’ is often correlated with personality and charisma of a leader. But I think that leadership presence is way more than physical appearance. Execute with deep focus on the task. Technology and endless notifications on our devices make it even worse.

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Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality of Planning = Quality of Execution: 7 Lessons When a project is executed, a plan is established. Team members ( often referred to as “resources”, unfortunately ) are assigned, milestones are created and the schedule is circulated to all concerned. Conor Neill´s last blog.

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Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers

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High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. Leaders carry a responsibility to ensure their team’s physical as well as mental well being, while enabling them to do their best work.

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Leadership Development Carnival: June 2014 Edition

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Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Beth Miller of Executive Velocity asks “ Does Your Leadership Fear Transparency?