Reading about emotional intelligence and being emotionally intelligent in certain situations is two different things. It’s kind of like a lot of things, including nursing for instance. There are nurses who are book smart and there are nurses who become great nurses who continually learn throughout their nursing career, becoming better and better. Another great…
Month: February 2019
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves ~ Wednesday’s Book of the Week
This week’s book of the week is Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves. It is a small book and short read, but what I like most about it is that it really focuses on getting you to understanding your emotional intelligence (EQ). You find out what level you’re at and then are…
Process for Continued Leadership Growth
Many times when we think of leadership, we think of a person. True leadership should move through someone, not be someone. True leadership teaches and mentors so that others may lead. It empowers others so that it may multiply it’s efforts. That is the real goal of this blog: to equip you with the mentorship…
Influence’s Tools, Concession and Consistency
This week’s Book of the Week is Influence by Robert B. Cialdini. Some of these techniques for influence whether in sales or negotiations, you may have heard before. But, the big lesson in his collection of techniques is keeping them in mind and using them more frequently. Also when you can throw in more than…
Lead like Shirley Chisholm
What do you define as leadership? Someone who’s able to move massive amounts of people? Someone who’s able to lead movements like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandi? Maybe you think of someone who kept a country from dividing and stood with moral courage like Abraham Lincoln. Or maybe you think of someone like a…