The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports, “The leader is a key source of the organization’s emotional tone. I was getting very few responses.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

More than 300 participants will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s best neuroscientists, authors and experts on emotion, learning and business to begin incorporating EQ into their lives and business practices. Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 17, 2012

This week's guest post is from Shirzad Chamine: Daniel Goleman made a compelling and accurate case nearly two decades ago that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) was more important to leadership effectiveness and performance than IQ. But most attempts at increasing EQ have resulted only in temporary improvements.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

I believe I encourage love of work in others when I demonstrate my own, share it, create the space for others to participate in it. Just now, joyfully toiling away with my colleague and friend Karin Zastrow creating some GREAT, new stuff! Thanks for the BEAUTIFUL quote, Mary Jo… loved it and couln’t be more fitting today.

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My Own Coach

JUNE 24, 2013

Some years ago, I came across Daniel Goleman who completed a three-year study with over 3,000 middle-level managers to identify specific leadership behaviors. Goleman and his team also determined each behaviour''s effect on corporate culture and bottom-line profitability. Still having to think about it?

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Coaching Tip

MAY 1, 2013

“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning : intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press). Free Leadership Coaching Tips by subscribing at: [link].

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

You’ll want to make sure the room you are in will invite participation, not stifle it. These kinds of discussions don’t happen often enough, and when they do, considering the small things that make a difference in your surroundings will have an impact on the outcomes of your meeting.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 13, 2010

When you change the negative habits above to more positive ones, you will: be fully present to the individuals and the needs around you talk less and listen more, gaining wisdom and the reputation as a leader who cares become more inclusive, extending the invitation to participate, and releasing the potential of your team open your mind and your heart (..)

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Through your active participation, you will learn and practice the EI skills that are the core of achieving personal awareness, connecting with others, managing stress, engaging healthy conflict and collaboration, and exhibiting resilience and optimism.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Not sure what you mean by “part time&# , but I know of several leaders (one of whom is a CEO in a very large organization) in several organizations I work in who participate in long term mentoring relationships with regular meetings. Mary Jo Asmus : December 10, 2010 at 7:11 pm Scott, I would agree – sort of.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Participating in this workshop was one of the hardest experiences I’ve ever had – and one of the best. I can’t disagree with you anymore that when we go for teaching/coaching we learn a lot from the students or participants. Hang in there. Sometimes good things come to us in the struggle.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

And he and I have participated in a fabulous monthly Master Mind group with Jan Andersen of Beyond Words, Inc. When I started my own business, he was generous and giving of his time to help make it successful. He was, and still is, my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator mentor as I was learning my way around that instrument.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

After college I participated in a program at Walt Disney World, where creating a pleasant work environment was part of their corporate culture and leadership training. Through having leaders that appreciated and went out of their way to encourage us, we in turn were more inclined to support one another and this made work much more enjoyable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Some people are there, like it or not," points out Daniel Goleman, the co-director of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University and author of The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights. Goleman says the first step is to manage it. But proceed cautiously. Principles to Remember.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Inviting others to participate in decisions. Celebrating successes. It is much too rare that we stop to enjoy what has gone well. The effort put into celebration will reinforce the right actions in the future. The results of your collective efforts will be better, and people will feel like they are impacting the organization too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

In his new book Focus , psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman, the father of emotional intelligence (or EQ), provides data that supports the importance of mindfulness in focusing the mind’s cognitive abilities, linking them to qualities of the heart like compassion and courage. Meditation is not the only way to be a mindful leader.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In addition to attending TEDx events in 24 different countries, we created a survey that was shared by TEDx organizers with thousands of participants in over 50 countries. Carriers like Gladwell, Goleman, and Popova do this expertly for us, as do less household-name carriers through their extensive and influential social networks.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

They rate lower than direct reports, direct managers and the participants’ self assessments. In turn, I understand that “small talk” is important to several of my peers, and I make the effort to participate; not necessarily because it is important to me, but because I know that it is important to my peers. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

I arrived in Davos several hours ago, amid daunting traffic, driving snow, and intense security, to participate in my first World Economic Forum. Dan Goleman , for example, is leading a panel on emotional intelligence , and Mehmet Oz is running one called "Preventing Burnout," which includes two leading experts on meditation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

As I participated, one theme seemed omnipresent — that while events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them. The problem seemed not so much identifying what needed to be done as the lack of a plan for making the changes quickly enough.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Sociologists (Luhman, Gambetta, Barber, Giddens, Sztompka, et al) are concerned with the position and role of trust in social systems and this sociological perspective has brought important insight into the nature of trust within a system and the differing ways to measure trust among the participants in the system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

The idea of what executives do changed from a concept of control and authority to a more participative coaching role. This post is part of a series of perspectives by leading thinkers participating in the Sixth Annual Global Drucker Forum, November 13-14 in Vienna. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When this deeply instinctive function takes over, we call it what Daniel Goleman coined in Emotional Intelligence as “amygdala hijack.” Stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol flood our system, immediately preparing us for fight or flight. ” In common psychological parlance we say, “We’ve been triggered.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

When I was creating my course on "Authentic Leadership Development" at Harvard Business School, which also used peer facilitators rather than faculty to lead the groups, I decided to codify the important norms of the group and have all participants sign the Members Contract at their first meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

Meeting Participation. According to Daniel Goleman in a Harvard Business Review article, The Must Have Leadership Skill , he believes emotional intelligence trumps all the other skills. Initiating Action (Initiative). Innovation. Leading/Living The Vision And Values. Managing Conflict. Managing Work (Includes Time Management).

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