Perhaps one of the most significant challenges to any manager or HR staff member is to implement a fair, equitable, and effective performance improvement plan for employees. Employees have wants and desires, and those that feel a sense of purpose in their work are far more likely to be productive than those that do not.…
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Understanding your thinking process Did you know you that as a senior executive, you and your team receive around 11 million pieces of data in to your brain in each moment? All this data goes into the back part of your brain which has a filter mechanism. After filtering the data, it only sends…
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Organizations are undergoing constant and rapid change in how they must do business in our challenging times, necessitating strong and agile leadership, perhaps like never before. If leadership were such an easy skill to train, we’d all be able to generate positive and meaningful change in the workplace without the need for leadership in the…
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Every person is represented by a little circle in the EQ code. Each little circle is either green and happy, or red and hurt. Most people are held back because when they’re red they don’t know how to deal with it. So, we’re going to learn how to do the internal to external flip. This…
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Changes in the workplace don’t always happen in ways we’d like. Employees and colleagues can be resistant to change, and in our modern world, it’s undoubtedly worth allowing them to voice their concerns. Management must always balance the interests of their valued employees while endeavoring to enact meaningful changes necessary to push the goals and…
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Do you know those moments when your fight, flight or freeze instinct kicks in? That’s when your safety response is triggered. Many things cause a safety trigger. It could be standing on a roof, presenting to the board members at work, or talking to a customer. Even a smell can be a trigger. When we’re…
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Our mindset determines the ‘profit’ we get out of life both in our personal life and also our careers. Let’s look at why the state of our mindset is important to business and team members alike. So why do some businesses plateau and some evolve at a very rapid rate? Truth be known, the game…
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We’re programmed to notice potential safety and hurt issues before noticing feeling happy or loving both in the workplace and at home. It’s a natural response to tune into what’s not going right in our world. If we grow up in a place where there are no tigers or lions, our body doesn’t know that.…
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In today’s business culture, it’s prized to be logical. We don’t put much emphasis on our feelings, especially in the workplace. When we’re talking with team members, we want to know their thoughts on a topic but we rarely ask how they’re feeling about it. Many of us have been taught to dismiss our emotions…
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People are the most important resource in an organization, so why does this perhaps cliché statement often take a back seat to raw numbers and financial reporting on a quarterly statement? What is EQ? Emotional intelligence (often simply called EQ) is our individual connections with feelings and emotions, which don’t really factor in GAAP or…
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