Tag: Leadership
Conducting a successful Q&A session can make or break your presentation. The Q&A is an opportunity to find out what the audience members are thinking, share expertise and build rapport.
Done professionally the Q&A can leave a lasting impression on your subordinates, peers and leaders.
Maintaining your composure is key to keeping the audience with you.
Knowing who we are and understanding what we contribute can lead to a meaningful, rich and full life.
Self-Actualization, one of the fifteen competencies of emotional intelligence, is the ability to realize one’s potential capabilities. It is that deep inner calling that motivates us to have an enthusiastic commitment to long-term goals.
We realize self-actualization by maximizing our development and continuing to strive toward our dreams-one day at a time.
Continue reading “Creating Your Legacy – Self-Actualization”
Understanding people with different preferences can be beneficial in every day work situations. It can help teams clarify problems, make decisions, create more positive meetings and unify communication.
According to the work of Carl Jung, when your mind is active, you are involved in one of two mental processes:
The workplace is truly a new place. In this place the boss isn’t always the guy with the gray hair anymore.
As baby boomers age and younger, technology savvy workers move up the chain of command, generations are beginning to experience a very different workplace dynamic.
Now, those leading the company teams may be much younger than the workers they are asked to lead. This, of course, can lead to challenges and conflict.
Continue reading “Remember When your Boss was Older than You?”
Happiness on the job has many factors – the right pay, location, challenges that suit our capabilities, benefits, and more. For all the hours spent at work, the boss is also a critical factor in evaluating whether or not to accept that new position.
But what can you really find out about the boss during the length of an interview or two?
Plenty! According to Caroline Levchuck, author of the article, “Four Questions to Ask a Potential Manager.”
Continue reading “What should you learn from the Potential Boss During the Interview?”
Most of us know about the success of Phil Jackson and his unique coaching style that led to six NBA championships.
But have you ever thought about it in regard to the type preferences of the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)?
In type theory, there are two ways of taking in information – Sensing and Intuition. People tend to trust one of these preferences over the other.
On your next team project watch how the various MBTI preferences play out!
A good mentor relationship enables both the mentor and the mentee to develop and grow new talents and increase self-awareness.
The mentee can receive objective advice that keeps him/her from falling into common pitfalls and become more in tuned with what is needed for his/her development. The mentor can hone leadership skills and benefit from seeing another person positively grow and change.
Open communication with others fosters trust, enhances information flow, builds relationships and increases respect. Effective leaders know the value of two-way communication.
Our relationships at work can make or break our ability to implement our vision and goals. Changing situations demand increasingly sophisticated interpersonal skills.
Embracing the power of type preferences can have a tremendous impact on how we reach others. Use the following tips to communicate deliberately in your next conversation with someone of the opposite preference.
While learning about Emotional Intelligence, many people find it difficult to understand why empathy is an important competency for leadership. Some people proudly proclaim that they don’t have much empathy, while others roll their eyes about this “warm and fuzzy” virtue.
But what people fail to realize is that when we show lack of empathy in our daily lives, it serves as a roadblock not only to our relationships but also to our coaching abilities.
Empathy is the ability to read other people and see things from their perspective.
It involves tuning into body language, facial expression, posture and tone. When we show empathy we “hear” the whole message both verbally and non-verbally. We work to understand rather than projecting our own interpretation of reality on them.
