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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions.

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The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader

Harvard Business

Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. However, a 2015 survey of 1,000 working adults showed that eight of the top nine complaints about leaders concerned behaviors that were absent ; employees were most concerned about what their bosses didn’t do. You and Your Team Series.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

Emotional intelligence can help you here. In an ethical organization, talent management is a transparent and objective process — everyone gets a fair shake. Self-awareness enables you to build and strengthen that inner compass. How employees feel about the company. We want to work for businesses we can be proud of.

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If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work

Harvard Business

A good manager doesn’t need technical expertise, this argument goes, but rather, a mix of qualities like charisma, organizational skills, and emotional intelligence. It’s not uncommon to hear people assert that it’s a bad idea to promote an engineer to lead other engineers, or an editor to lead other editors.

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The Surprising Role of Goodwill in Building Trust

Organizational Talent Consulting

." ~ Dale Carnegie Leaders display and create goodwill by being: friendly helpful cooperative and taking an interest in followers' well-being A leader can build their goodwill capacity by developing their emotional intelligence, helping followers, and spending time establishing high-quality relationships. Berrett Doolittle, J.

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When Employees Think the Boss Is Unfair, They’re More Likely to Disengage and Leave

Harvard Business

“People pick up on bias when they see opportunities handed to colleagues for unclear reasons,” Kate Burke, Head of Human Capital and Chief Talent Officer at AllianceBernstein , advised us. Other results from survey respondents at large companies were surprising. Employee perception of bias takes an emotional toll.

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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business

. “Merit is vastly more important than gender or race, and efforts to ‘balance’ gender and race diminish the overall quality of an organization by reducing collective merit of the personnel,” a male engineer commented in the survey. Said another , women “will always be safe from a RIF [reduction in force].