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Leading Change with Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

Numerous research studies identify EQ as more important than technical skills, industry knowledge, and other factors that set apart top-performing leaders. EQ expert Daniel Goleman credits emotional intelligence for 90% of the difference between star performers and average ones in senior leadership roles.

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

The Practical Leader

One study found “a toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition and is 10 times more important than compensation in predicting turnover.” Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people.

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Five Reasons WHY Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

” McClelland’s findings in a 1996 study showed that “when senior managers had a critical mass of Emotional Intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earning goals by 20%. 3 This reality has been repeated in multiple industries in recent years. 3 Goleman D. Emotional Intelligence is the key. 4 Sanchez P.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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What Would Your Headline Be?

Great Leadership By Dan

Without one, your brain is subject to an “amygdala hijack” (Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.) is a leadership scholar and professor, and president and CEO of Goodwill Industries in Western Massachusetts. She consults nationally in areas of stress management and intuition for success. or impulsive, ill-thought out decisions.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

Readers of Daniel Goleman’s “ Emotional Intelligence ” will recall that the intrinsic self-motivation Goleman talks about in the “Self-Management” quadrant of emotional intelligence can only come from deep within a person. Do immediate managers/supervisors seem to care about them as people?

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Weekly Round-Up: On What Makes a Leader, Lessons in Innovation & 15 Procrastination Beating Techniques

leaderCommunicator

So whether you’re a new leader or an industry veteran there’ll be something here for you. If you find yourself constantly scrambling at the last minute to get done what you managed to put off as long as possible, don''t worry--you''re not alone…”. So in case you’ve missed them, here is this week’s round-up of top posts.