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May Recommended Reading

31 May

Effective leadership depends on emotional intelligence

From Harvey Schachter: “Much attention has been paid to the emotional intelligence of managers. But in an era of teams, what about folks who take a leadership roles in groups, often because they are a technical whiz?”

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How to Seriously Motivate People

From The Corner Office by Steve Tobak: “The vast majority of workplace problems are actually management problems. While that statement was meant to be about improving quality, to me, it’s always had a broader meaning.  I’ve always thought of it as an axiom for improving all kinds of management and organizational systems… including how to motivate employees.”

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10 Online To Do List Manager Solutions to Get Things Done

From Work Awesome: “Cloud-based task managers are becoming more compelling and practical every day. It’s not uncommon for employees to spend their professional and personal time between three computers: a laptop, work desktop and home desktop. Throw an iPhone or Blackberry into the mix, and synchronization across all of these devices becomes an unwieldy engineering project. There has to be a better way.”

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How to Improve Your Public Speaking by Practicing Out Loud

From Michael Hyatt: “I came away from the Dynamic Communicators Workshop with numerous action items. However, the one that had the single biggest immediate impact was this:  Before you give a speech, practice it out loud, on your feet, as though you were in front of a live audience.  I know, that probably doesn’t sound too revolutionary. But for some reason, I had unconsciously come to the conclusion that I didn’t need to do this. Boy, was I wrong.”

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April recommended reading

29 Apr

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3 Steps To Managing Workplace Conflict With Emotional Intelligence

From OPEN Forum: “No matter how great a corporate culture you create, no matter how good a role model you are, it’s inevitable that situations will arise that require you to mitigate emotional stress within the ranks. Personal conflicts, outside pressures, and job-related stress will eventually become a factor to be dealt with in any workplace setting. How well leaders handle those situations depends on their emotional intelligence…”

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The Five Levels of Delegation

From Michael Hyatt: “Delegation is critical to leadership. You can’t take on more responsibility unless you are willing to delegate to others. But that doesn’t mean it is always easy…”

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Leading From Your Strengths

From Growing Leaders: “A while back, I got to meet one of my favorite authors. Marcus Buckingham was speaking in Atlanta, and I was fortunate enough to connect with him for a few moments backstage, thanks to a little help from a few friends. Marcus is the bestselling author of First Break All the Rules, and Now Discover Your Strengths. His latest book is entitled, The One Thing You Need to Know. He is a remarkable communicator whose message is revolutionary. Let me summarize what he spoke about that morning…”

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Saying Yes to Time Management

From Working Girl: “I’m a people pleaser. If someone needs help, a ride, advice, an errand, a favor…they usually come to me – mostly because they know I’ll say yes.

You see, saying no has never been one of my fortes. The art of saying no in the workplace is especially hard for me since I’m not the gal in charge.”

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December recommended reading

06 Dec
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The Good News About Good Bosses

From Bob Sutton’s Work Matters: “A recent poll by StrategyOne of over 500 American workers finds that over 80% of employees feel respected by their supervisors and believe their supervisors value their work.”

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What I Learned from Oprah and Marcus Buckingham

From Escape from Corporate America: “The bottom line, according to Oprah and Marcus, is that your real job in life is to find out why you are here. In order to make any kind of lasting contribution, your job must “feed” you in some way.”

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Inspirational Quotes Blog

This inspirational quotes blog posts at least one quote every day; sometimes two or three.  If that’s not enough, you can follow him on Twitter to get even more quotes.

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Civility at Work

From Daniel Goleman: “People at work in any organization face a panoply of forces that easily overpower the urge to be civil: stress, multi-tasking, too much to do with too little time, or too little support. Stress and distractedness – not meanspiritness – are the most common enemies of civility at work.”

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Set up Outlook 2007/2010 to Master Your Now (MYN)

From Master Your (Workday) Now: “This video teaches you a subset of the complete MYN Outlook system; just enough so that you’ll be using the core of the Outlook MYN system in only a few minutes. You’ll have a system to get your long list of tasks for the new year organized, and then a way to stay ahead of too-many e-mails and too many to-do’s.”

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Winners of the 2010 World’s Best Presentation Contest

From SlideShare: Late each year, people are encouraged to enter presentation slides or videos in SlideShare’s Best Presentation Contest.  Then SlideShare members vote, and expert judges select the final winners in a variety of categories.

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Is emotional intelligence important?

26 Jun

A month ago, I barely knew what emotional intelligence was.  It just didn’t seem that important.

Emotional intelligence is your ability to be aware of the emotions of yourself and others.  It’s the skill to manage your own emotions.  Plus it’s your talent to manage  relationships with other people.

Like many people, I thought being skilled at my job was the most important thing.  I spent what little time I had for professional development on learning how to do more work faster, better, longer. Read the rest of this entry »