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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Previous blogs in this series have cited research proving the most successful leaders have strong EI profiles. ® assessment is not a report card of how healthy your relationships are, or how successful your decision making has been, or how well you handle stress! The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

But having a grasp of terms like EBITDA and net present value are important no matter where you sit on the org chart. “If you can speak the language of money, you will be more successful,” he says. If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. How can you boost your financial acumen?

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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

Don't overuse I (try not to begin paragraphs or successive sentences with it), but do lean heavily on we, our, you, and your. By the time you find it (or give up trying), you've lost the writer's train of thought. Those are friendly words that pull readers into a document. Use contractions. Use them judiciously.

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The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy

HR Digest

It’s not a one-time event, whether it be a three-day seminar or a three-week training program. Financial training programs for first- and second-line managers must begin with basic terminology. A successful financial literacy program should provide managers with opportunities to utilize their financial skills on a regular basis.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. The first component of a Deal Profile is figuring out how to define success. It did this in a few ways.

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Do you need to reshuffle a few things now before things get too busy? rm on a consistent basis.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Successful companies shape their high-level strategies by relying not on complicated frameworks but on simple rules of thumb. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA. Next, ALL's CEO assembled a cross-functional team to develop simple rules for prioritizing capital spending.