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24 Do’s and Don’ts to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Success

How you handle high levels of stress can mean the difference between being assertive and poised or being negative and disgruntled. Emotional intelligence is particularly important when pitching a proposal. Strong emotional intelligence and healthy, lasting relationships are formed by knowing how to best engage each person.

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Quiet Quitting = Suffering in Silence. Silence isn’t good. Period. By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Doing the bare minimum of work involves passive aggressive behaviors which are a form of retaliation and a cry for help. The quiet quitters do not feel empowered to assert themselves to their leaders about the root problems, so they justify their mediocre performance with thoughts such as; “ Why should I work so hard?

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

Listen with empathy not sympathy and be assertive in your response. If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting.