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6 Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance
May 15, 2018
Team performance is a key factor in overall organizational success. But for many leaders, cultivating a high-performing and effective team can be quite a daunting task. How can you get people with varying attitudes, professional habits, and personalities to work cohesively as an efficient unit? Emotional Intelligence, also known as EI, of yourself and each...
How to Use Your EQ to Become a Better Team Leader
May 07, 2018
As business leaders and managers, we often put pressure on ourselves to be consistently driven, inspiring, and balanced. However, leading a team is a difficult job at times, with countless obstacles to overcome daily, which requires the ability to have top-notch interpersonal skills at any given moment. Emotional Intelligence (or EI) can help exhausted or...
Your Guide to More Mindful Leadership in 6 Simple Steps
April 20, 2018
Outside of the workplace, mindfulness is a topic that saturates mainstream media, lifestyle blogs, and how we organize our personal lives. However, once we enter the professional realm, we can see that mindfulness hasn’t quite made its mark as a necessary part of effective leadership and teamwork. Becoming a more mindful leader can help keep...
Leadership Development: The Unexpected Key to Succession Planning Success
April 12, 2018
As your business grows and your company culture inevitably shifts with the times, it’s vital that current leadership consider the type of leadership necessary to keep the business thriving in the future. According to the HR Council, succession planning is the acknowledgement that current staff “will not be with an organization indefinitely” through the cultivation of...
Emotional Intelligence: Women’s Unexpected Key to the C-Suite
March 16, 2018
Women in the modern workplace often carry with them personal career hopes, ambitions, and goals. However, when compared to men, women also face numerous obstacles when striving to obtain positions at the C-Suite level. This is due to the invisible “glass ceiling,” which can impede women’s abilities to reach senior leadership positions by placing additional...
Shatter the Glass Ceiling by Coaching Women Who Lead
March 06, 2018
In the modern workplace, there’s been an important conversational shift taking place: providing the path for women to find success as best-in-class leaders. Traditionally, when people think of executive-level leaders and organizational CEOs, the image of a powerful man in a suit comes to mind. However, this picture is changing, as gender-related topical issues in...
Your Emotionally Intelligent Guide to Leading Change Management
February 13, 2018
Whether an organizational change is sudden or carefully planned out, some repercussions cannot be foreseen. It is during times of change where a leader’s abilities to effectively take charge, support, and manage their team are tested. Effective change management is a vital piece of leadership, and most leaders will have to step up to the...
The Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Authentic Leadership
January 12, 2018
Modern leadership styles are transforming. This is in part due to a change in cultural norms, while for others, these changes have stemmed from the experience of authentically leading a team and finding success while doing so. We’ve moved away from removed leadership, with managers who had little interaction with the team members they were...
8 Ways to Level Up Your Leadership Capabilities in 2018
January 08, 2018
With the arrival of the New Year comes fresh starts, resolutions, and an unparalleled motivation to find organizational success. Whether you’re a C-Suite leader of a major enterprise or a high-potential employee trying to cultivate high-value leadership skills, emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership capabilities go hand-in-hand. According to a study by TalentSmart that tested EI with 33...
Build a Resilient Workplace Culture With These 3 Simple Steps
December 12, 2017
The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” Within the modern organization, leaders and team members are faced with professional challenges and tough problems on a daily basis. From stressful emails, to the idea that employees must always be “plugged-in” to work-related issues even after hours, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to...