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To Keep You Growing: How to Avoid Being Stuck in the Muck

The Practical Leader

You can get Informal feedback through external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, anonymous online surveys, external assessments, informal networking, moose hunting , and so on. Prescription: Strengthen your Emotional Intelligence. Symptom: I, robot.

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Leading a Multicultural Team

Center for Creative Leadership

Cultural Intelligence (CQ): A Must-Have Skill for Leading Multicultural Teams. creating focus groups if necessary ? ” What’s the Difference Between Cultural Intelligence & Emotional Intelligence? ” How Can You Develop Cultural Intelligence? .”

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Change Your Employees' Minds, Change Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Through focus groups with the bankers, the bank's leaders quickly found that most of them found customer interactions uncomfortable, and preferred paperwork to people. Why wasn't the new process working? Within six months, customer-facing time and sales improvements were back on track.

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