Make Sure Your Next Big Meeting Actually Accomplishes Something How many times have you walked out of a theoretically important meeting and thought, “What did we accomplish?” More often than not, the problem isn’t with what did or didn’t happen … Continue reading
Link: Ask These 4 Interview Questions to Screen for Emotional Intelligence – 4 great questions for evaluating a candidate’s EI in interviews http://ift.tt/1ZwKHMc
The Right Way to Challenge How Meetings Are Run When meetings veer off track, everyone’s time gets wasted. But what if you’re not in charge and the meeting leader is the source of inefficiency? It can be daunting to question … Continue reading
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Link: Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses. – No wonder recruiting and retaining talent is getting to be such a challenge…I am working on a project for a client now focused on teaching managers how to hire … Continue reading
Great Harvard Business Review tip…it’s easy to save our skills for the people who are professional contacts and ignore our skills with the people who we hope to spend our whole lives with. Avoid Fighting With Your Spouse When You … Continue reading
Link: Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains the energy reserves of your brain – First we were encouraged to multi-task, then increasingly we hear of the “myth of multt-tasking”. BrainSmart ™ companies are increasingly instituting policies that provide for uninterrupted time … Continue reading
Link: Which Gen Am I REALLY When I Work? – Facilitating a workshop today on generations in the workplace…always a joy to see participants wake up to the differences, and to the skills for how to get along, manage, team … Continue reading
Link: my best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation — Ask… – This is a fascinating and funny-if-not-so-tragic example of how low EI cost a clueless manager the team’s best employee…and … Continue reading
Link: How Does “Creativity” Translate Across Different Cultures? – One of my favorite workshops to facilitate is the one on Creativity in the Workplace that I developed in the last few years for fortune 1,000 company and refined for them … Continue reading