Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2018

Emotional intelligence. Promoting them and offering them people-management responsibility is setting them up for failure. Promotion bumps up the ego and gives a salary hike; however, the real problem starts after the initial period gets over and it’s time for a reality check. Effective delegation. Bump in Ego.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 9, 2024

This not only affects team dynamics but also impacts the company’s bottom line, costing organizations up to 1.5 Recognize the Cost of Poor Hiring: Forbes reports that a staggering 80% of employee turnover results from poor hiring decisions. times an employee’s annual salary.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 18, 2019

Emotional intelligence. Intelligence and technical skills can take you so far, but it’s emotional intelligence that allows you to reach the top. Emotionally fit leaders are able to manage their stress levels without taking their emotions out on their team. Integrity is the foundation of great leadership.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Development of emotional intelligence. An older generation may consider leadership to be all about being the boss and guarding the bottom line, but happily the field has changed since those days. As I discuss in my new best-selling boo k, The Leadership Gap , w hat y ou don’t own ends up owning you.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

On top of hard managerial, left-brain skills that drive bottom-line results, they have uncanny intuition and perception to understand the emotional realities of the circumstances and people around them. Self-awareness, another component of emotional intelligence, is one of the most important capabilities for leaders to develop.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2013

It plagues leaders from the top to the bottom of an organization: new leaders, old leaders, promoted from within, hired from the outside. But too often, it just gums up the works as things grind to halt waiting for executive review. But no one will admit to being one of them. I am just being a servant leader.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 12, 2013

There’s more to succession planning than coming up with lists of candidates for important positions on the back of a cocktail napkin. Then they end up scrambling looking for replacements, hiring overly paid and risky outsiders, or over-promoting unqualified candidates. I’ve been studying succession planning best practices for years.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 19, 2016

If your geeked-up project team along for the ride doesn’t know what direction they’re headed or why they’re being steered in that direction, then you need to stop, put that bus in reverse, park, get everyone off and start over. Finally, you need good bus-driving skills.

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Brigette Hyacinth

APRIL 9, 2020

Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor is giving up his pay for the rest of the year, (March 18, 2020, to Jan. Sadly, many leaders don’t care nor do they wish to care because they think caring is detrimental to the bottom line these days. 7, 2021) to help struggling employees amid the pandemic. Why don’t many leaders think like this?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Even the nation’s top business schools (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Wharton, Berkley) are injecting soft skills into MBA curricula to support new management models such as remote teams, emotional intelligence, predictive analytics, passion and purpose, and mindfulness in the workplace.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence). It’s a high-wire balancing act many executives go through to grab the golden ring.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

 Kris has a great post reminding you that the consequences of procrastinating these conversations are always worse than the interaction itself and urges you to pick up the phone and make that uncomfortable call today.  Check it out for some eye opening results.    Seth Godin's Blog : Do You Need a Permit? .

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With Emotional Intelligence an imperative for 21 st century leadership, a coach is uniquely positioned to speak to the attitudes and approaches of a leader—how well they take care of and consider themselves and how well they take care of and consider those they lead. The great resignation is here, and it’s real. August 2021.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And, in a clear departure from the old adage, “Don’t quit your job until you have another one lined up,” a not so small number of employees are quitting with no backup plan or safety net. But look a little deeper, and you’ll find that it’s not that employees simply want to take Zoom calls from their couches in their pajama bottoms.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

The feeling economy marks the transition from both the physical economy, where our economies were driven largely by brute force, into the thinking economy, where brains and logic were the determining factors, and into the feeling economy that will come to be dominated more by emotional intelligence, empathy, and creativity.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 27, 2013

Today’s more collaborative, creative business models, on the other hand, require leaders with high emotional intelligence – business leaders who can build trust among their colleagues and employees. Yes, there will be times when other people will mess up, and you’ll have to deal with that. Allow room for confrontation.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 23, 2020

2020 is almost over… Like many of us, you’re likely going to stay up on New Year’s Eve just to make sure that old man 2020 is kicked out by a youthful and more hopeful 2021. Bounce Back: 9 Ways to Strengthen Resilience — In Japan, the Daruma Doll is a good luck charm with a rounded and weighted bottom.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Often when we’re faced with the prospect of having to step up to the role of a leader, we can feel an immense sense of pressure. People have certain expectations of what it takes to be a leader, and if you can’t meet those standards then you mustn’t be up to the job. To be strong, decisive, direct, knowledgeable, and all-knowing.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Boost your brand’s bottom line, boost your productivity and bring your business to another level. With that being said, you as the leader need to develop emotional intelligence. This will help them open up with you which will help you identify how you can help them succeed and do their tasks in the highest quality possible.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance James A. Autry, former Fortune 500 exec and bestselling author, shares the secrets to being an effective servant leader in, "The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance."

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CoachStation

AUGUST 11, 2015

Too often I saw people being held accountable for our own failures to set them up for leadership success and support our team members to achieve. Opportunity presented itself in the form of a chance to step-up temporarily into a role providing more money, esteem, credibility or some other perceived benefit. You jumped at it!

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

After we ended our phone call and I hung-up the phone, I finally realized the cause for this problem. Here’s the bottom-line: if you encounter situations that frequently cause you to trip up in your relationships, take a close look at how you’re defining the situation. My wife was not the problem.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence) This is where most C-Level executives fail. Smile or Die!

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, many, if not most, employers will wake up to the realization that what they have done in the past will not work going forward. Patel focuses on essential interpersonal skills, reflected in emotional intelligence, writing, speaking, empathy, clear communication, and conflict resolution.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Susan Scott, author of Fierce Conversations , sums it up well. Understanding this reality is often a huge wake-up call, and in my opinion, not a moment too soon. Emotional intelligence matters a heck of a lot – more even than IQ, particularly if you want to have healthy and productive relationships.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I bring this up because in retrospect I realize I didn’t know what I would do next if I didn’t get married. Keep my skills up to date. The bottom fell out of the stock market when I was preparing to sell my house. I didn’t know what constituted good spouse material or how to make such a partnership work. I said yes.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The bottom line is, aside from your method of choice, how you say things is as important as what you say, particularly when it comes to building social capital. If it looks like someone started to speak but the crowd swallowed up their comment go back and make room for them to speak. Sometimes we misuse them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

They know that by identifying less than helpful behavior and improving themselves, they will make the biggest impact on their organization and the bottom line. Developing staff is as important as the bottom line. For it to end up in The Leadership Museum, would be to rob me of some of my most significant learnings.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

If you want to ENLIST people onto your vision, you have to LISTEN – probably a reason why both the words are made up of same letters. After all this, ensure that the person is fun to work with, social and emotionally intelligent. Don’t rely on emails when you can walk up and talk to a team member. Learning history.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 25, 2010

During a recent review of a sales team for a national company, we identified that the bottom sales "performers" produced less than 20 percent of that of top performers. What are your lowest performers costing your bottom line? What are your lowest performers costing your bottom line? We see this all the time. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 7, 2010

 Given this special occasion, I thought I would change things up a bit with my weekly Fab Five blog picks and feature five posts that I especially enjoyed from the Leadership Development Carnival.  Enjoy and be sure to check out all the other great posts that were included in the carnival!

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 10, 2010

  We often will sample assess a sales team's high and low performers in order to show the "spread" between the top and bottom performers.    The difference between the top and bottom performers was almost one million dollars in the last quarter reviewed. A million dollars in one quarter! . 

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly | Main | Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks » August 23, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Every Monday I like to round up five blog posts that I found to be especially good reading over the past week. 

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Gallup’s latest employee engagement meta-analysis shows that business units in the top quartile are 17% more productive, experience 70% fewer safety incidents, experience 41% less absenteeism, have 10% better customer ratings and are 21% more profitable compared with business units in the bottom quartile. (5).

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

 As the health and wellness of an organization's workforce can have a direct impact on its performance and bottom line I thought I would take this opportunity to share a great podcast from the folks at Maxim Health Systems to help you and your organization better prepare for this year's flu season.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

  The Management Center even takes things a step further and offers up suggestions for how you can tweak their materials so they make sense for your team or organization.  Bottom line, this is a great collection of resources that is well worth your time to look over. 

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

There is an old saying I remember hearing when I was growing up in Taiwan: Spilled water is hard to regain. Being able to relate to others, find commonalities, and work toward a common goal are all wrapped up in how each person understands and protects the face of others. “Don’t be a frog living at the bottom of a well.”

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