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Development Is Shortsighted: Interpersonal Skills #1 Reason Frontline Leaders Fail

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Some of the key findings include: One in four organizations report a loss in profit due to frontline leader failure. Even more respondents reported a loss of productivity (65 percent) and loss of team member engagement (69 percent). Give leaders a strong foundation in interpersonal skills.

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Help Your Global Talent Succeed and Lead - Cultivate Communication Skills

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A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs. If so, they need persuasive communication skills. What Communication Skills Are Most Critical?

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

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Soft skills are increasingly important in creating successful leaders Guest post from Gary S. Getting Soft The issue with leadership development is that there is too much emphasis on the hard skills (technical knowledge, teachable, easy to quantify) and not enough focus on the soft skills (interpersonal skills, subjective, harder to measure).

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Seven Subconscious Habits That Sabotage Your Ability to Listen – And Lead

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Like a cascading waterfall, direct reports quickly emulate the leader’s changes, and cultural transformation follows organically. Like a cascading waterfall, direct reports quickly emulate the leader’s changes, and cultural transformation follows organically. A conscious or subconscious lack of respect of others. Multitasking.

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Why Managers Don’t Listen (Poor Listener Syndrome): and the Cures!

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One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. However, this is a management and leadership resource, so we’ll stick with listening in the context of a management skill. The cure: Listening skills are relatively easy behaviors to learn, with a little awareness and practice. Listening isn’t rocket science.

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Having the Courage to Trust Your Team

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“Oh, sure,” your workers may think, “I’ll trust you … just as soon as you stop monitoring our e-mails, stop drug testing, or stop requiring to-the-minute time reports.” For instance, consider how challenging it is for new managers to delegate important tasks to their direct reports.

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Leaders Build Trust Through Conflict!

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That is why there is no such thing as “soft skills.” Verbal Jeet, or EPR Skills. This means you need to resolve conflict by using your Ver bal Jeet Skills (EPR = Empathic Listening, Parroting, and “Rewards”). Let’s say that you are a new leader at your company and Fred Flintstone reports to you. Is it safe?

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