Women and Emotional Intelligence Excellence
Emotional intelligence. Is it an under deployed leadership trait? Is it a skill that a conscious leader brings to the table? Should it be considered criteria for selecting and advancing new leaders? These are good questions. When addressed in leadership selection and advancement criteria, the impact of training and advancing Emotionally Intelligent leaders with the […]
Re-Engaging Employees in 2016
You’ve revamped your interview process. You’ve focused your efforts on hiring the right people for the position. However, your team’s progress is stagnant. The problem might not be your company, but instead part of a worldwide employee engagement crisis. According to research from Gallup, employee engagement in the U.S. has remained low and stagnant since […]
Losing It At Work Impacts Empathy
Mentally spiraling out of control at work is a symptom of stress and poor stress management skills that impacts workplace Empathy. Losing it at work, when taken to extremes, produces an emotionally hostile and physically dangerous workplace. This results in expensive lawsuits, which if defensible still cost a business more money to defend than […]
Leading on an Emotional Level
Emotional intelligence is an often overlooked leadership trait. It is the ability to identify and assess your own emotions and the emotions and feelings of those around you. Leading on an emotional level means that you understand how your words and actions affect others. Emotionally intelligent leaders understand how to overcome stress and help others […]
TIGERS Success Series 2013 Employee Engagement Blog Recap
Here is the 3rd part of a 5 part series recapping the blogs and articles posted in 2013. The Employee Engagement blog recap is loaded with great information on both employee engagement and disengagement in the workplace. But just what is employee engagement? By most definitions it is an employee’s level of involvement, emotional commitment, […]
A Healthy Team Is A Productive One
The Hartford, on September 25, released its third in a series of four reports this year providing insights on various trends in the workplace. Best-selling author and marketing consultant Lindsey Pollak shares her expertise on the Millennial generation and what both employees and employers can anticipate going forward. The first two reports, published in April […]
People You Work With May be Retaliating Against Something You Don’t Even Realize You Did
Guest Perspective: Tony Lacertosa, Peerless Leadership Development. Do you know what you’re saying and doing? I’m asking, not to question your abilities, but to remind you that our words and actions may be perceived by others differently than how they were intended. In my experience, I’ve observed that most leaders strive to build good […]
Encourage Risk-Taking to Bolster Team Building Success
Risk is defined as a ‘situation involving exposure to danger or failure.’ So when you mention the word, risk, several emotions come to mind such as: Fear Failure Stress Anxiety But without the element of risk, there would be no new discoveries, innovation, or progress – especially in the world of business. Without risk, organizations […]
Replace a Cut-Throat Work Culture with an Empathetic Culture To Spark Engagement
When you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you understand their situation, feelings, and motives. That’s empathy…and today’s corporations, leaders, and employees seem to come up short on this basic soft skill. Empathy is a skill important to building good workforce relationships. When individuals are empathetic, they recognize emotions being experienced by another, […]
Equal Opportuity Screams Ahead As The Rubber Meets the Road
You hire the very best individuals for the team, right? That sentence use to be delivered with a wink and a nod in the back room of private social and networking clubs. Everyone knew that there were ways to keep “those” people out of the running for senior positions. I’ve sat back with a jaded […]
