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The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice

Meeting icebreakers can be as painful as a bucket of ice down your shorts.  The icebreaker’s intent?  Loosen things up, meet people, set the stage for effective work. The challenge, if you are going to use an icebreaker, is to understand the difference between hokey and intentional. Know your audience is a constant refrain.  But sometimes, [...]

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Your star performer creates employee resentment

In school, those model students who shine above others and are always ready to “help” others risk more than a roll of their classmates’ eyes in the working world.  In organizations the model employee willing to help others risks outright employee resentment.  How you identify and manage these star performers may impact more than just [...]

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Sam Thompson, Vice President, Progress Partners

“Toby regularly demonstrates a noble ability to think on his feet when offered the challenge. He has a sound ability to quickly ramp up with a team, conceptualize process, communicate the options back to the room, and then provide actionable dialogue. “When a business or team becomes out of sync with it’s market, customers or [...]

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The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on others.  Still a little to warm and fuzzy?  What about a 30% increase in bottom line performance? Emotional Intelligence is vital to maximize any return on human capital.  Why does this matter?  The happier [...]

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Emotion versus intelligence – the tortoise and the hare

In a prior post I advocate emotional intelligence as a more important quality job interview criteria than a corporate or team culture fit. What is emotional intelligence or EI? And what does the EI vs. IQ debate mean? Where IQ intends to measure the ability to reason deductively or inductively. Much has come to light [...]

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