We've known for some time that leaders require higher levels of emotional intelligence as they pursue career advancement. There's now accumulating evidence that cognitive fitness is becoming a focal area for high-achieving leaders. Until recently, busy executives could find few guidelines for … [Read more...] about Brain Fitness for Leaders
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The Mindful Leader: Sit and Be Still
"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be." —Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric Most business books focus on how leaders can achieve more. How can you do more, better…and faster? This full-length article takes the opposite tack: how and why, as leaders, you should sit … [Read more...] about The Mindful Leader: Sit and Be Still
The Magic Ratio of Positive and Negative Moments
According to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, each day we experience approximately 20,000 moments. A moment is defined as a few seconds in which our brain records an experience. The quality of our days is determined by how our brains recognize and categorize our moments—either as … [Read more...] about The Magic Ratio of Positive and Negative Moments
The Business Case for Coaching
Coaching paves the way for decision makers to create higher levels of organizational effectiveness through dialogue, inquiry and positive interactions. Coaching creates awareness, purpose, competence and well-being among participants. Coaching is NOT another feel good exercise based in soft skills … [Read more...] about The Business Case for Coaching
Creating Powerful Teams
Teams are the most common business unit for high performance. Although the word gets used loosely and not always appropriately, there is universal acceptance that teams create opportunities for high performance results. The most significant research on groups of people working together occurred … [Read more...] about Creating Powerful Teams
Human Relationships at Work: The New Frontier
“Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.” —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945 Leaders and managers can study, train and be coached. But if they fail to work on their interpersonal skills, they will not … [Read more...] about Human Relationships at Work: The New Frontier
Leadership Power Stress: Creating Renewal
Effective executives often find themselves caught in a cycle of stress and sacrifice, without any possibility or time for recovery or renewal. Most of those who make it to the top have proven track records for influencing others, getting teams to work together and achieving results. Such leaders … [Read more...] about Leadership Power Stress: Creating Renewal
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Conversational IQ: 5 Conversational Blind Spots
Is there such a thing as conversational intelligence? It could be that some leaders are naturally more adept at the art of conversation. It’s certainly true that we all could improve our ability to engage and influence others through conversations. “Human beings are the most highly social species … [Read more...] about Conversational IQ: 5 Conversational Blind Spots
How to Cultivate Executive Presence
Someone in your company may have recently been promoted to a leadership position. This person successfully competed against other qualified candidates, some of whom were probably just as experienced and smart. As often happens in judging one candidate over another, the decision most likely came … [Read more...] about How to Cultivate Executive Presence