As an organizational coach I see it often - HR or L&D reaching out for assistance with a member of the team who is struggling to fit in or work with others. They are exceptional at their job, but there is "something" holding them back. This “something” can be difficult to describe, but usually comes down to the human factors at work, or their emotional intelligence (EI) - in comparison to others in the same environment. EI skills and behaviours are as important as your intellect, experience and background in determining success at work and in life. Measuring emotional intelligence should therefore be added to hiring processes, not to replace other strategies but to strengthen existing processes. Discover how to incorporate EI into your candidate acquisition processes.
Brendon Burchard, my favourite High Performance guru teaches that when we have big goals and big dreams we need to ‘check-in’ with other people on a regular basis to socialize our learnings. This lesson inspired a talk I gave at my Toastmasters Club in September 2021 titled: My Favourite F-Word.
It is also a concept that I teach all my clients as it is fundamental to how we build resilience and how we develop a growth mindset. Can you guess what my favourite F-Word is?
Discover the Six Behaviours that will help you to become a better Project Manager. As a project manager you need to, not only manage the processes that your particular governance model requires you to execute, but you also have to facilitate performance, i.e. get your team (and possibly even third party teams) to do their best, and to deliver their work effectively and efficiently in order to bring the project in on time, cost and quality. Discover the 6 behaviours that will help you to inspire performance and motivate self and others to deliver on client expectations.
When you rethink your challenges you reveal your potential. This is one of the principles by which I have learned, over time, to lead my life. It also inspired one of the primary values driving the Revo brand: Empowerment; and why I, personally, find coaching so meaningful. In this blog I shared my thoughts on coaching and mentoring as part of a recent talk I gave as part of the Toastmasters Effective Coaching Pathway - Level 4: Improvements Through Positive Coaching. I am a member of the Kloof Toastmasters Business Club, Durban South Africa.
We all experience a wide range of pleasant and unpleasant feelings at work as we interact with colleagues, customers, suppliers and others. These feelings influence decisions, behaviour and performance. Pleasant feelings have a ‘broaden and build’ effect causing us to think more broadly, engage more deeply and perform better. Unpleasant emotions tend to have a ‘narrow and limiting’ effect, causing us to be more closed-minded, less engaging and poorer at performing. Do you know the emotions that are driving the decisions, behaviours and culture of your organization?
