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Soft Skills Training in the Digital Age: Strategies and Best Practices

Clarity Consultants

Unlike hard skills, soft skills such as active listening, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking can’t be mastered through static content alone. Emotional Intelligence Being able to read a room, even a virtual one, matters. This also supports a culture of continuous learning.

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To Develop Cultural Dexterity, Seek It Out

Harvard Business

Global organizations need leaders with cultural dexterity — the ability and know-how to make a sale in Seoul just as effectively as they host a meeting in Riyadh. At West Point, one negotiation training exercise is designed to replicate a Middle Eastern environment with native speakers of the languages of that region.

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How the Most Emotionally Intelligent CEOs Handle Their Power

Harvard Business

In fact, as an inside candidate, he’d had the benefit of learning his company’s culture before stepping into the CEO role. In essence, two key emotional intelligence competencies, self-awareness and empathy, had disappeared from his tool kit. Consider “James,” a CEO I met some years back. Insight Center.

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How to Use Mindfulness to Increase Your Team’s Creativity

Harvard Business

Then we administered a 10-minute mindfulness exercise and afterward asked them to continue brainstorming the creative task. Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. Companies such as Google and Aetna offer corporate-based mindfulness programs to strengthen their employees’ emotional intelligence and well-being.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work

Harvard Business

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

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The Right Questions Can Reveal the Right Problems

Harmonious Workplaces

Leverage Empathy in Inquiry Constructive questioning encourages a culture of openness, fosters innovative thinking, and promotes a deeper understanding of challenges and opportunities. Unraveling the interplay of authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence and psychological well-being.

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4 Ways to Control Your Emotions in Tense Moments

Harvard Business

But given my professions about candor in our culture, I was somewhat trapped. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions. I’ve failed as many of these moments as I’ve mastered — but by working intentionally on these simple exercises, my successes are far more common.