The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high. Directive, brightest-person-in-the-room leaders build co-dependence on them as the chief problem solver and crisis manager.

Leadership 59

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Goleman Crisis 59

Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2013

Management is “ Choose Yourself ” – consciously selecting emotional response. Among the benefits that organizations have reported: EQ has twice the power of IQ to predict overall performance. Higher EQ managers in a major restaurant chain created 34 percent greater annual profit growth. Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E.

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Freedman Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Chief Operating Officer 113

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2011

This powerful leadership force was first publicized in J. Sterling Livingston’s classic 1969 Harvard Business Review article entitled “ Pygmalion in Management.&# A unique characteristic of superior managers is the ability to create high performance expectations that subordinates fulfill.

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Shaw Power Emotional Intelligence Goleman 49

Coaching Tip

MAY 28, 2013

You will collaborate, lead, coach, manage, and serve in meaningful ways, by adapting to the communication needs of the moment. Source: Shawn Kent Hayashi: Conversations that Get Results and Inspire Collaboration: Engage Your Team, Your Peers, and Your Manager to Take Action. Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Goleman Licensing 133

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2023

their way to positions of power. Since I began studying, applying, and teaching leadership skills early in my career, I’ve believed that high performers are made, not born. It’s also a proven path to greater happiness and life satisfaction. So, leadership is an inside job. Some bosses can bully, bluster, and B.S.

Emotional Intelligence 52

Emotional Intelligence Goleman Follow-up Leadership Development 52

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 13, 2010

Sometimes the nature of this information, its source, or the manner in which it was delivered, puts some kind of strange electric charge into the knee, and consequently, it jerks upward, causing a powerful reaction. Anger must be managed – that release must go somewhere other than the knee. Do some deep breathing.

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Information Blog Goleman Emotional Intelligence 301

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 19, 2010

This, in turn focuses your attention and shapes your actions, thereby determining what’s possible and not possible for you as a leader.” ~Tracy Goss, The Last Word on Power What winning strategy do you have that has helped you to achieve success but may now be limiting you? Who can you ask?

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Strategy Greenleaf Maslow Goleman 150

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 17, 2011

The risk of falling back on squabbling, defensiveness, and power plays in light of limited resources is all too possible. It’s a vicious cycle, when debate creeps into the ugly realm, with words meant to wound and grasps at power become the norm.

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Commitment Greenleaf Maslow Goleman 188

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

I work almost exclusively with mid- to upper- management in organizations. These are the people who’ve had many years of experience managing others, which makes it even more puzzling that the skill of inquiry hasn’t been accepted and valued. Sadly, it often isn’t something that THEIR managers think is important.

Leadership Styles 202

Leadership Styles Greenleaf Maslow Blog 202

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 15, 2010

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose). I wonder what people think “management&# is about when they get promoted? And how true.

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Short-term Long-term Skills Blog 196

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Discuss the importance of their commitment: It is important for them to know that they are responsible for their own actions and career. When they make a promise to follow through on an action that will further their career, they should follow through. Stop over and view a different look at the power of mentoring.

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Mentor How To Emotional Intelligence Guidelines 273

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Bret Simmons takes us into sudden death overtime as we reflect on the importance of self management in leaders: Prudence: An Undervalued Virtue of Leadership. Gwyn Teatro of You’re Not The Boss of Me plays quarterback as she leads discussion of the next play in the huddle with Managing and Leading….Lessons is hiring.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 220

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

This weekend, a Wall Street Journal essay by Jonah Lehrer called “The Power Trip” highlights research that supports the view that when in power, a leader may have a greater tendency to act unethically or immorally. Is there hope for ethical, moral power to prevail? That is also the abuse of power, dont you think?

Ethics 184

Ethics Morale Open-book Blog 184

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Questions can give us a goal in life for fighting, questions can provide a tremendous power and energy to achieve our goals. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. What keeps us from asking, then?

Blog 172

Blog Greenleaf Maslow Goleman 172

Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

They assure that management takes responsibility and accountability for helping people develop. Without respect, leaders could be impossible to have power to lead their men to work together toward their goals. They hire talented people, they develop talented people, and they promote talented people.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Self-aware 187

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. So take five and enjoy the inspirational quotes and reflect on the questions that follow.

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Greenleaf Maslow Goleman Self-aware 124

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

Sonia Di Maulo : August 1, 2010 at 12:43 pm Powerful message and activity, Mary Jo! Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. If that is true, then the same characteristics that make for good human beings also make for good leaders.

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Greenleaf Maslow Blog Goleman 177

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Authority and power being what they are, we might fear the retribution that can come from speaking up. At one point in my career, I worked for a man who was a tyrant, bigot and sexist. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired).

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Leadership Follow-up Blog Greenleaf 150

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

That big, hairy audacious project you want to manage? Leadership is a kind of effluence or power to make other people will to follow and support you. I also feel that many organizations train their people to be a manager rather than a leader. Management and leadership intersect; we must have both, and know when to use them.

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Leadership Self-aware Executive Coaching Blog 179

Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 18, 2010

Words: People listen closely to those in management and leadership roles. Actions: Followers watch managers and leaders more vigilantly than anyone (sometimes called “hypervigilance”). I write a lot about listening – it is the single most powerful tool an executive can have.

Leadership 186

Leadership McCarthy Blog Greenleaf 186

Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Being wrong is a necessary part of your leadership journey; one that encourages you to take risks and humbles you when it happens. Learn from it, and you will become a better leader.

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Learning-by-Doing Blog Environment Greenleaf 188

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The power to communicate is the key to forging productive relationships. Because of my position, my words have a lot more power than I am even aware of. It truly makes a difference to be guided and impacted by someone who not only loves their career–but who is a great and compassionate leader as well.

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Self-aware Blog Learning-by-Doing Greenleaf 140

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Sean Whitlock: September 9, 2010 at 4:17 pm This is such a powerful quote, and certainly something that all leaders should practice in their roles. For most managers (and other leaders) it would require a major paradigm shift in their styles to start sincerely asking these questions of those they’re leading. Good reminder!

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Cooperrider Leadership Altman Blog 169

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Management Emotional Intelligence Leadership Drotter 14

You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

This is my interpretation of Mr Goleman and company’s view of a variety of leadership styles; the characteristics of each; and when it’s appropriate as a tool to maintain what he refers to as a positive emotional climate. What do you think? → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Leadership Styles Goleman Emotional Intelligence Leadership 40

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Folks need to understand you are really no different than them, you are just at a different place at a different time along your career path and therefore have a different role right now. I recently had an experience where I needed to spend the afternoon alone with a particularly high ranking division manager. Good stuff.

Blog 172

Blog Self-aware Trout Learning-by-Doing 172

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Many believe that when they request feedback from their staff, peers, and manager that they will hear the unvarnished truth about their performance; seldom does that happen. This may have nothing to do with the leader who is asking; but it may have a lot to do with the fact that the leader is in a position of power.

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Follow-up Blog Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 229

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

Daniel Goleman and Richard E. Such was the case with Chris, a management consultant facing a health and career crisis. This story had facilitated his ascent up the firm’s career ladder. Chris felt indebted to the firm and to the boss who had invested a great deal in his career. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Emotional Intelligence 15

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Goleman Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Paying due attention to others is tantamount to career success.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 360-Degree Feedback How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information. If you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you''re missing out on the many ways you can take advantage of this social network to build the professional relationships you need to advance in your career. Leadership Managing yourself'

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