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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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Mindful Leadership: Productivity and Presence

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Leading organizations, teams and initiatives is all about producing tangible outcomes. Presence enables us to remain curious and ask right questions. Ability to consume multiple and relevant inputs and pay attention to connect the dots – make sense of it all.

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Conversations That Build Psychological Safety

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The words that people use when dealing with conflicts, failures and during developmental conversations really define the culture of the team or organization. What do these conversations look like in action?

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Conversations That Build Psychological Safety

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The words that people use when dealing with conflicts, failures and during developmental conversations really define the culture of the team or organization. What do these conversations look like in action?

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Great Story: A Manager’s Function

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I recently re-read a fantastic book “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams” by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. The book is filled with hard-won wisdom about executing projects and managing people for highest productivity.

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How to Communicate with Brevity

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Long winded and unfocused conversations in meetings is a waste that costs us our focus and productivity. Over-explanation, too much of context setting and long meetings indicate lack of preparation before communication. For many of us, it is difficult to be brief when we write or talk. In the world of information overload, brevity is a gift.

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

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Consider this story from my own experience: Jay was bright software engineer who was stuck in maintaining a legacy product for over 5 years. He was looking for growth in a complex maze of managerial biases from his team lead, stringent organizational processes and many other constraints.

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