Posts Tagged ‘leaders’
Build Strong Stakeholder Relationships Through These Three Social Intelligence Methods
Form lasting connections to stakeholders and help them feel understood by using the three social intelligence methods of empathetic listening, echoing and mirroring, and building rapport
Read MoreThe Trap of Getting Back to Normal in the Pandemic
Your company can survive and thrive in the new abnormal of the pandemic by protecting yourself from mental blindspots such as the normalcy bias.
Read MoreHow Your Household Can Survive and Thrive During This Pandemic
You can survive and thrive in the new abnormal of the pandemic by identifying and addressing fundamental needs of your household: safety, connection, and self-esteem.
Read MoreWhat Is Unconscious Bias (And How You Can Defeat It)
To address unconscious bias requires understanding what it is and where and how you might fall into it. Just as importantly, it requires developing a series of healthy mental habits that prevent you from falling for unconscious bias.
Read MoreThe Secret of Getting Optimistic and Pessimistic Employees to Collaborate Effectively
Maximize the value that pessimists and optimists bring to your enterprise by helping them work together well. Optimists should generate half-baked ideas and give them to the pessimists, who would select the most viable notions and finish baking them into full-fledged plans.
Read MoreHow to Prevent Failure in Working From Home to Address the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
To prevent disasters in transitioning to working from home, imagine that your transition completely failed. Then, brainstorm all plausible reasons for failure, and generate solutions to these potential problems. Do the same to maximize success.
Read More8 Powerful Questions You Need to Ask Before Stakeholder Engagement
Asking the 8 Powerful Questions during a pre-engagement stakeholder assessment will lead to better engagement and stronger relationships with your stakeholders.
Read MoreWhy You Should Hire Women Over Men, According to Science
If you care about your bottom line, hire women over men. Due to gender discrimination, women had to work harder to get the same career position as men, and you will on average get a better worker if you hire a woman.
Read MoreHow to Deal With Colleagues in Denial
To get colleagues in denial to believe the truth, use EGRIP: 1) discover their emotions; 2) then their goals; 3) build up rapport; 4) provide info to change their mind; 5) offer positive reinforcement for them updating their beliefs.
Read More5 Key Questions for Everyday Decisions (Videocast and Podcast of the “Wise Decision Maker Show”)
How can you make everyday decisions quickly? Answer 5 key questions: 1) What info do I need? 2) What cognitive biases might harm me? 3) What would a trusted adviser say? 4) How might this fail? 5) Why might I revise this decision?
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