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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

The good news for many of us is that our IQ is less important to success and happiness than our EQ (Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence). I’ve extensively quoted and cited the expanding body of emotional intelligence (EI) research for many years in my writing and workshops. Too many are bully bosses.

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Does Working With AI Help Or Hinder Employees?

The Horizons Tracker

Help or hinder It’s commonly assumed that conscientious employees are strong performers at work, due to their focus on details and generally strong work ethic. Then, if tasks don’t require cooperation with technology so much, then people who score highly for conscientiousness can come to the fore.

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Adversaries into Allies

Leading Blog

This is a guidebook to emotional intelligence and should be read from cover to cover. Manipulation aims at control, not cooperation. A manipulator will play on your negative emotions in order to elicit your compliance.” It’s the little things we forget. But here’s a caution: You can’t fake this stuff … for long.

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19 Key Leadership Competencies & Behaviors from 29 Top Experts

Miles Anthony Smith

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Even if you are working in a difficult culture, do what you can to make an impact in your sphere of influence. They can be learned, absorbed, honed.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

Emotional Intelligence. Make sure you can work within those whilst still maintaining your own personal values too – ethical working, doing a job well not just fast enough, using your skills to meet their needs, on their terms! Chris Cooper ( Life Complete ) Choose a career that aligns with your values. Just lessons.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

One intellectual movement, called “emotional intelligence,” introduced by Daniel Goleman over 15 years ago, shined a spotlight on people skills. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue.

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What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees

Harvard Business Review

Secondly, they are able to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships, build a broad network of contacts and form alliances, and be influential and persuasive with a range of different stakeholders. The ability to manage oneself and to manage others are the core elements of emotional intelligence.