Have you ever eaten a compliment sandwich? You know what I’m talking about. Sandwiching a piece of negative feedback between two pieces of unrelated positive feedback—between two compliments. Somewhere, in some corporate training manual or […]
Networking is a powerful tool for building a strong team in an organization. A leader’s networking skills will help them connect with the right people. These people will bring success and valuable resources that help […]
It’s not often that we see a well designed study that tries to explain how a leader’s personality affects the performance of a company. As I reported here previously, there is very credible evidence that […]
The “Big Five” factors of personality are broad dimensions used to describe human personality. The factors are openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. In a number of research studies, across a wide variety of […]
There are two popular models of emotional intelligence (EI): the ability model and the mixed model. The ability model involves emotion perception, emotion understanding, emotion facilitation, and emotion regulation for the purpose of affecting desired […]
Servant leadership is a belief in and practice of “leadership that places the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader, emphasizing leader behaviors that focus on follower development and de-emphasizing glorification of […]