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Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

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But unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your IQ, EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve. enumerates the specific components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. This is the “social skill” component of emotional intelligence.

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Education & Experience Don’t Guarantee Success—Attitude & Habits Do

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Talent matters, too, but aside from skills (which develop from experience) much of your talent is an innate tendency to perform better in certain areas. Though many habits form unconsciously, it is possible to purposefully create habits that will make you successful. The key to successfully forming good habits is consistency.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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And those skills translate directly into the office or boardroom. A 2015 article in The Atlantic titled “For a More Creative Brain, Travel” argued that traveling and soaking up foreign experiences increases cognitive flexibility, an important part of creativity. Good communication is important regardless of the setting or language.

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How to Improve Your Neuroplasticity for Business Growth

Stephanie LH Calahan

It is continuously forming new (or strengthing exsisting) neural connections throughout life. The more you practice something – a belief, a skill, an exercise or a talent – the stronger the connection becomes in your brain. Reduce Stress. That includes how you respond to stress in your life. Look at both areas.

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3 Soft Skills Those in Leadership Roles Should Develop to Be Better

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One answer, he believes, is those in leadership fine-tuning their soft skills. Khan, who has worked in academia and found his calling in entrepreneurship, co-founded SkillsCamp in 2015 to do just that: teaching those in business leadership roles and educators soft skills. Creativity can come in many forms. Why bother?

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The Quest for My Best Sales Month Ever

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The other offers me an unsolicited assignment to write about the relationships that formed after a retired soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder sent his Purple Heart to a NASCAR driver. The most lucrative month of my solopreneur career was September 2015. Now I see it as a skill to be mastered.

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Executives and Assistants are Struggling Today

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Executives and Assistants Working in Partnership: The Definitive Guide (by Joan Burge with Chrissy Scivicque) will be released early October 2015. Understanding perceptions and defining expectations form and strengthen the foundation to build the partnership between you and your leader. Clarifying perceptions and expectations.