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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

” This ROI comes from many places, including increasing employee productivity, positive outcomes on employee management, talent management, and retention in an organization because executives who work with coaches are better equipped to lead their teams more effectively.

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The Power of Listening in Helping People Change

Harvard Business Review

Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. In a recent paper , we consistently demonstrated that experiencing high quality (attentive, empathic, and non-judgmental) listening can positively shape speakers’ emotions and attitudes. Harry Haysom/Getty Images.

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

Levels of team coordination and conflict management were also assessed. In fact, teams with less self-aware individuals made worse decisions, engaged in less coordination, and showed less conflict management. For example, self-management training can help people plan, apply, monitor, and adjust their newly learned competencies.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/14/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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The Emotions That Make Us More Creative

Harvard Business Review

A recent neuroscience study led by Roger Beaty (and which I was a collaborator on) suggests that creative people have greater connections between two areas of the brain that are typically at odds: the brain network of regions associated with focus and attentional control, and the brain network of regions associated with imagination and spontaneity.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Yet study after study, including my own , tells us the qualities that leaders in today’s world need are intuitive, dynamic, collaborative, and grounded in here-and-now emotional intelligence. How talent management is changing. What would work better? Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.