There’s a saying that goes your “IQ gets you hired but your personality ‘EQ’ gets you fired”. Whilst there is of course much truth in this I suggest an Employer can help Employees develop their EQ (Emotional Intelligence or EI) so that their IQ gets them hired and their EQ gets them promoted.
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Archive for February, 2009
Emotional Intelligence and People Skills
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Goals, Leadership, Positive Psychology, tagged Emotional Intelligence, Exec, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Leadership and Self-Awareness
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Leadership, Positive Psychology, tagged Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Development on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post is a primer for the coaching we do with Leadership and Self-Awareness.
Put simply a Leader can not be an Authentic Leader without self-awareness. The top three coaching objectives that Leaders ask us for at the start of an assignment are:
Leadership – developing interpersonal and team leadership skills.
Self-awareness – becoming more aware of my [...]
Executive Coach Tip of the Day
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Leadership, Positive Psychology, tagged Exec, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s the Executive Coach Tips of the Day from my Twitter:
Recognize the skills and traits you don’t possess, and hire the people who have them.
Read Leadership & Self Deception by the Arbinger Group – http://tinyurl.com/bojbzy (I am not affiliated)
Never deal with another person simply as a means to an end.
A vague value system can lead [...]
Can you change?
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Positive Psychology, tagged Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development on February 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There’s a Zen story of a frog that was swimming happily in a river, minding his own business. Suddenly, he heard a voice calling out to him. Swimming toward the sound, the frog saw a scorpion standing on the riverbank. The scorpion said, “I need to get across the river. Please give me a ride.” [...]
Incentives need to be moral incentives
Posted in Leadership on February 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I would recommend watching this Ted video from the 2009 meeting – my take on Virtue -
To be virtuous means to be perfectly rational and to know both how to act in private life and with respect to one’s friends, business associates, fellow citizens or countrymen, or indeed other members of the human race
In the [...]
This week’s Executive Coach Tips
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Leadership, Positive Psychology, tagged Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Development on February 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every day I put an Executive Coach Tip of the Day on my Twitter feed. Here’s the list from last week:
An authentic leader is consistent and not a sort of chameleon, changing colors for certain groups
Realise there is never a Right Way to do a Wrong Thing.
A leader is only as successful as their [...]
Stop accepting average
Posted in Coaching Benefits, Goals, tagged Executive Coaching, Goals on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of [...]
How Organizational Culture contributed to the Crisis
Posted in Leadership, tagged Executive Coaching, Leadership, Organizational Culture on February 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As important as culture is, it remains one of the most misunderstood concepts in business today. People often confuse it with more specific things, such as internal policies and procedures, or dismiss it altogether as a “soft science.” For this reason, strong cultures may be common among some firms, but they remain rare among businesses [...]
Organised versus Disorganised Companies
Posted in Environmental, Leadership, tagged Executive Coaching, Leadership Development on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple of years ago I worked on a major global project assisting a client with a change program. The outcome of the program was very dependent upon the climate created by the leaders at the head office and in each business unit. The climate of any company is a much unappreciated but essential ingredient [...]
Competitive advantage of People
Posted in Leadership, tagged Executive Coaching, People development on February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Competitive advantage in business comes not from ideas or concepts but from people, people who have the ability to actually think of and crucially implement ideas and concepts.
Once you build a strong culture that all of the people employed in the business feel, it is very hard to duplicate it because of the values and [...]
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