Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence

Published on: Monday, May 21, 2012

Are You Really Capable of Change?

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: leadership, joseph daniel mccool, innovation, change, behavior, opportunities, executive success, emotional intelligence

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Lots of business leaders say they're ready for change. They're eager to get on with something new. But the ugly truth, particularly for executives with a painfully deficit of self-awareness, is that they're simply incapable of change.

This incapacity to see an enterprise from a new or different perspective or to pursue a new course that may require an open-mind and willingness to engage in serious discovery is debilitating. It stops companies in their tracks. It prevents them from ever reaching their full potential. It alienates more self-aware peers and subordinates, and it can also have devastating results on executive careers.

Published on: Thursday, March 15, 2012

Are Hard or Soft Skills More Important?

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: robyn greenspan, leadership, ceo, management, communication, emotional intelligence, expertise

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One can have the very best technical and functionally specific expertise but cannot be considered a leader without engaging followers, and that is done through effective communication, relationship-building and developing emotional connections.

"I would argue that it is the proficiency in the 'soft' skills like empathy, communication and emotional intelligence that determine whether a leader is even able to successfully employ the 'hard' skills like analysis, risk management and operating efficiencies. You really can't operate efficiently if you can't get the best from your people, and they may not 'hear' you if there's no emotional connection," began one of the discussions within the ExecuNet community.

Published on: Friday, January 27, 2012

Does Your Brain Need an Upgrade?

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: world business forum, robyn greenspan, executive recruiters, executive hiring, diversity, emotional intelligence, claudio fernández-aráoz

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"Nothing is more important for our career success than making great people decisions," said Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, author of Great People Decisions at the 2011 World Business Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported. When he surveyed which of the thousands of business leaders in the audience were formally trained in this selection process, very few raised their hands.