Leaders without emotional awareness, do not relate well to others or engage with them, and in fact, are more likely to cause dissatisfaction, conflict and performance dysfunction. It’s less than 30 years since the idea of emotions having an impact…
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Emotional Awareness – A Must for Organizational Wellness
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The Skill of Positive Presence for Emotional Awareness
Influential leaders are highly practiced with the skill of ‘Positive Presence’ and it places them in a position to model emotionally balanced behaviour. More important, it enables them to be responsive to others’ needs, which is a primary contributor to…
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Are You Aware Enough to Connect?
Relationships, by their nature, require constant and consistent tending. The quality of the care you put into relationships with your colleagues translates into either a negative or a positive experience. That is, the other person perceives every one of your…
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The Emotional Bank – How Wealthy Are You?
Self-examination reveals many things, including your level of sincerity, which is a trait all enlightened leaders share. Sincerity is synonymous with genuineness, honesty, and authenticity. In his best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey presented the…
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Emotional Connection – The Three Points of Contact
A leader’s emotional awareness is important because employees relate to their leaders on an emotional level in several ways: First, how employees feel (e.g., awed, intimidated, indifferent, impressed) about their leader influences the way they do their job and the…
Emotional Awareness – Are You?
Twenty years ago, the idea of emotions having an impact on personal and professional success, productivity and performance was given a new name: emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI), first defined in an article by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer,…
Emotional Awareness – So What?
Stress impacts your behaviour as a leader, your mental capacity, and even your physical health. Your ability to manage the stress of today’s work world is largely dependent on your ability to develop emotional awareness. That being said, developing emotional…
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Workplace Behaviour – What’s Your Style?
Your emotions are your response to your thinking and mental patterns. Your mental patterns, in turn predict your behavioural style. Your behavioural style has the ability to stir up emotions in others. Behavioural style, or social/communication style, is the way…
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Emotional Awareness – Where Are You?
Authenticity, humility, honesty, and courage are hallmark leadership traits that research has attributed to a leader’s emotional awareness. In today’s knowledge economy in which the majority of your workforce is made up of knowledge workers – those people whose jobs…
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