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Fostering Team Emotional Intelligence

QAspire

Tuning into team emotions, fostering productive work relationships, building trust, and building a conducive environment within the team is the constant work of leadership. Here is a high-level summary of the context as well as four skill areas of team emotional intelligence in form of sketchnote.

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This Strategic Pivot to Address COVID Will Help Your Business Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . Being deprived of basic humans needs that we naturally get from work, such as sense of connection, tribe, meaning, and purpose. Subpar skills in virtual communication and collaboration.

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Featured Leading Voice: Mary Schaefer

Lead Change Blog

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Mary Schaefer , a coach, trainer, consultant and speaker who helps develop a culture of engagement and empowerment with tech managers and employees. Mary’s mission is to create work cultures where organizations and human beings can both thrive. Mary has a B.S.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? Absolutely, but there is one caveat… You need to be absorbing and applying what you read; it won’t help you if it goes in one ear and out the other.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither. Being kind and firm.

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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

Now, you’re going to be managing a team of high-performers in a division of your company that everyone’s buzzing about. You’re well aware that you’ll need to rely on your emotional intelligence skills to understand and work through your new team’s dynamics. Managing Yourself Book.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Empathy is a core component of emotional intelligence. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! When communicating, you need to have a clear and concise central message. If these needs are met, people can thrive in that culture. Strangers don’t.