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Win/Win: Workplace Well-Being Boosts Company-Well Being

The Practical Leader

BUT…many senior executives still consider “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, perceptions, engagement, and the like secondary to “hard decisions” such as strategies, investments, financial systems/analysis, technology, automation, AI, etc. Everybody wins.

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Tackling Sensitive Issues: How to Talk to an Employee About Body Odor

HR Digest

It’s crucial for maintaining a professional and comfortable workplace environment, yet many managers struggle with how to approach this delicate subject. Four Steps for Addressing Sensitive Topics : Step One: Look beyond the presenting problem to understand any underlying issues.

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Servant Leadership in Action

Leading Blog

Editors Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell have collected some good essays on the subject. T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. Ken Blanchard begins by telling us that some people think you can’t lead and serve at the same time.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

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). Many are generally minor performers.

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The Power of Framing

Leading Blog

Framing a subject is an act of persuasion by leaders, on imbued with ethical choices. Emotions are a part of leadership and emotional intelligence is required for framing. When emotions are running high you have an opportunity for framing. Rule 3: Apply Ethics. Reality” is often contested.

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The Dilemma of L&D: Buy or Build?

The Center For Leadership Studies

The LinkedIn Learning 2021 Workplace Report validated what we have experienced in L&D: In the “now” normal, the skills that leaders need to effectively manage dispersed and hybrid teams require a heightened commitment to developing soft skills like leadership, Emotional Intelligence, creativity and communication.

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Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk

Harvard Business Review

Two academic heavyweights face off on a topic that every student of leadership and HR cares — or at least hears — a lot about: emotional intelligence. My conclusion about emotional intelligence based on this experience? Call it Grant vs. Goleman. ” And the comments fly. ” And the comments fly.