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Emotional Intelligence As Competitive Differentiator

N2Growth Blog

People with high emotional intelligence quotients (EQ) are easy to talk with. Once accepted, these folks can spark the cooperation needed to drive winning solutions through collaborative efforts with their colleagues. They are great listeners and strong communicators in both the written and spoken word.

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Is Cooperation The New Efficiency?

Lead Change Blog

I commented to her that I think the ability to gain cooperation is an underestimated component of efficiency. I was a mainframe systems manager. The more I understood their jobs, their routines, and their responsibilities, the more likely I would make intelligent requests of them. Cooperation Is Better Than Compliance.

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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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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

AI is changing how workers trust and engage with their managers—and connection is at the heart of these changes. But people still turn to human managers who can understand how they feel, c oach them in their careers, and build culture. These are areas where machines excel: providing accurate information quickly.

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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

The Silent Power Behind Emotional Intelligence. “The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.” The Interpersonal dimension is characterized as the ability to understand other people around us, what motivates them, how they work as well as how to work cooperatively with them.

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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.

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Does Working With AI Help Or Hinder Employees?

The Horizons Tracker

This virtuous cycle results in organizations, recruiters, and HR managers valuing employees that are highly conscientious, whether in terms of recruitment, development, or promotion. Then, if tasks don’t require cooperation with technology so much, then people who score highly for conscientiousness can come to the fore.