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When you joined your company, the HR department probably suggested how you could develop, and maybe suggested a course or two. And that’s it, your development was left to you and maybe your manager once a year when you had to fill in some forms during your performance appraisal.
I have always felt this hands off approach to the development of talent to be sadly lacking.… Read more
Here’s a little bit of fun, and a tongue in cheek test. Try it on your team members,
Below are four simple questions. Try to answer all of them before looking at the answers.
#1: How do you put a giraffe into a fridge?
#2: How do you put an elephant into a fridge?
#3: The King of the Jungle is holding a meeting for all of the animals.
I’ve written about resilience and how to develop it to enhance your eQ, here’s a quick quiz to assess your own resilience.
Resilience is the process of adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, says the late Al Siebert, PhD, founder of The Resiliency Center in Portland, Oregon USA.
Interested to find out how resilient you are? Take this quiz, adapted from Siebert’s book The Resiliency Advantage.… Read more
One of the characteristics I find most lacking in new managers is resilience; the ability to bounce back when things don’t go as planned.
All too often the sight and sound of an irritated, dissatisfied, or angry boss or customer, drives many young managers to thoughts of resignation. But it doesn’t have to be this way. By building up your eQ skills focusing on resilience, your life will be made immeasurably happier.… Read more
I’m a reader, I love reading articles and books, and I like to know what others are reading.
Amazon’s Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos was recently interviewed on CNBC.
One of the best parts of the interview is the detail given by Bezos about some of the books he’s shared with Amazon’s top executives — he uses these as frameworks for shaping the future of the company.… Read more