attachment styles and relationships

High Performance Teams Have Leaders Who Focus on Awareness

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High performance teams are led by people with a high and well-balanced level of emotional intelligence. Staying in the place of empowered leadership grounded in well-being is essential to cultivate authentic and inspiring culture where people have the drive to create unprecedented results. This means that, to be a good team leader you should have…
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stress and anxiety at work

Resiliency Training: How to Cope with Stress and Anxiety at Work

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In a previous post, we shared the fact that approximately 1 in 9 people experience work-related anxiety on the job. While knowing that your work makes you anxious certainly has value, knowing what you can do about it is even more important. So, we’d like to offer a few ideas on how resiliency training will…
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collective trauma

Coaching Leadership Style – Inspiring Growth Mindset in the Workplace

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There are a variety of leadership styles and techniques; perhaps as many as there are people and personality types. However, tops among the most effective approaches in collaborative and coaching leadership style is an approach which fosters a growth mindset among team members in the workplace. The coaching style of leadership is the antidote to…
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coaching leadership style

Best Leadership Skills – Fast is Slow & Slow is Fast

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With change being the one true constant in life, combined with the fast-paced rate of change today, the relentless pursuit of solid information that can lead to positive outcomes would seem to be a logical choice. And yet, there is an increasing amount of research that indicates slowing down may be among the best leadership…
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coping with frustration

Building High Performance Teams – Coping with Frustration

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Building high-performance teams requires a wealth of leadership skills and depth of self-perception that not all of us possess, often leading to frustration at the poor performance of your team. For example: What does it really mean when you feel frustrated with your team? Are they just poor performers? Does HR need to “get a…
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building high performance teams

Best Leadership Skills – Reality Testing as a Workplace Tool

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One of the best leadership skills you can possess is to consistently live in the real world; to be able to clearly distinguish objective reality from your subjective perspective or impressions. A powerful tool for doing this is known as reality testing, which can be defined as: the objective evaluation of our internal interpretation of…
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team building

Effective Leadership Qualities – Mindfulness as a Leadership Skill

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There is a growing amount of research-based evidence that mindfulness enhances the qualities that are essential to Emotional Intelligence (EI), which may also lead to an increase in effective leadership qualities. How is this possible? Of course, as mindfulness has become more popular as a treatment for a diverse set of physical and emotional conditions,…
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decision making process

Decision Making – Prediction and Judgment Based on Reality

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According to an article at the Harvard Business Review, good decision making requires a sense of two things: “How different choices change the likelihood of different outcomes and how desirable each of those outcomes is. In other words… decision making requires both prediction and judgment.” Of course, this presupposes that your decision-making process is reality-based…
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