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Top Strategies to Make Employees Feel Heard

November 20, 2023

Employee experience is essential for any organization. It starts with making sure that employees feel heard and valued. Employees who feel their opinions are being listened to are more likely to stay motivated and committed to the company’s success. This article will discuss some of the top strategies organizations can use to make their employees...

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How to Build a Resilient Team: Which Skills to Grow

May 16, 2023

Building resilient workplaces is crucial to ensure long-term success in today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world. This is especially true considering how external factors like economic downturns, natural disasters, or global pandemics can disrupt operations often leading to financial loss and reputational damage.  A resilient workplace can better withstand these shocks and respond quickly to mitigate...

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How to Take a “Coach Approach” to Management

June 14, 2022

If you’ve ever played sports then you know that coaches (and their leadership styles) can make or break a team. A coach understands that their job is twofold: To support individual team members and help them reach their full potential To create a cohesive team that performs to its highest capacity Coaches can’t play on...

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How to Become a Better Business Owner by Developing Your Emotional Intelligence

September 15, 2020

Do you want to become a better business owner who inspires their staff? The secret to inspiring leadership is emotional intelligence! Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to manage your emotions and control how you react to other people’s emotions. As a business owner, having the ability to manage your emotions can help you resolve...

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5 Ways to Become a More Resilient Leader

August 19, 2020

Do you want to become more resilient and lead confidently through times of change?  Building resilience is essential to becoming a leader who can successfully navigate hardship and difficulty. Even better: studies have shown that leaders with high levels of resilience are viewed as being more effective than their peers, direct reports, and their managers....

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How to Use the Hardiness Resilience Gauge to Increase Your Leadership Abilities

August 11, 2020

Wondering how to become a resilient leader? Looking for ways to build your skillset and bounce back faster from times of stress, trauma, and disaster? In this article, we’ll discuss how to use the Hardiness Resilience Gauge (HRG) to increase your leadership abilities. Leaders who develop resilience, which is defined as the ability to withstand,...

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6 Ways to Model Resilient Leadership

February 12, 2020

Our lives and workplaces throw more at us than ever before. From adapting to changing technology, to managing an intergenerational workforce, leaders have a responsibility to demonstrate hardiness and resilience in their management style.What does a resilient leader look like?Resilient leaders recognize that one leadership style isn’t applicable to every situation, or for coaching and developing every employee’s skills.In some situations it makes more sense to lead, and in others it’s more...

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IT Leaders: Champion Technological Transformation with Emotional Intelligence

May 06, 2019

Natasha Music, ACC, PMP is a compassionate leader and certified executive coach with over 20 years of IT leadership experience in both public and private sector organizations. She is an EI ADVANTAGE Associate, and practices coaching from her base in Victoria, BC.“Thrive on Change: Outside – In” - these words represent the key philosophy of the DXC Technology, the organization that I work for. Change is the only constant and to succeed in the digital era, organizations will need to leverage IT...

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How to Lead With Emotional Intelligence in 2019

January 02, 2019

Are you ready to lead with emotional intelligence in 2019?Emotional intelligence (EI) has rapidly become one of the most sought-after skills in upper management and across the board in many organizations. This is because businesses are waking up to the fact that the best bosses are those who show empathy and manage their teams with care.With the start of the new calendar year comes a fresh opportunity to re-frame how you lead your workplace teams, and how to do it with the thoughtfulness and...

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Change Management and Workplace Health: Tips for Successful Transitions

September 18, 2018

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