As a society, we talk a lot about leadership. This concept has become it's own industry with books, lectures, podcasts, seminars and trinkets. Yet, in all of the various words expended on business, entrepreneurship, and leadership, there are few that discuss the role of empathy as a key to the development of emotional intelligence. If you are in a position of leadership and have a desire to improve your employee engagement as well as team development, there is great value in continuing to grow your own emotional intelligence as you deal with people from various backgrounds. To be a leader in developing others you must start by leading yourself to set an example for how growth is a both a priority as well as an ever evolving process for individuals and their teams. Read more in our article published in About Leader titled How to Lead With Empathy and give us your feedback on how you are developing yourself and your teams. Step out of your comfort zone, make some smart mistakes, build a thriving team and be the leader that your team deserves. If you are resistant to change as well as growing as a leader, you will continue to attract and manage the team that you deserve.
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Are you a leader or serving in a management role? Do you deal with employee engagement and struggle with turnover? You may find our article, Strong Leaders Always Play the Blame Game, published in Young, Fabulous and Self Employed Magazine (YFS) helpful. The article is satirical and yet many of the negative practices we discuss are too often the go-to for those dealing with motivation, team building and discipline. We hope this narrative assists you to check some of the issues that may be disrupting your growth as an organization and develop some creative solutions to regain your path to success as a team. Excerpt: High employee turnover can become one of the deepest drains on organizational growth. It perpetuates a stasis in the development of your employees, inhibits engagement and results in poor client satisfaction. Consistently high employee turnover is a blaring alarm for prospective new hires and clients. It’s a silent warning to proceed with caution. If you didn't catch the nuggets of knowledge when the article The Cause, Cost and Countermeasure to Conflict in an Organization was published with the Project Management Times, you know have the opportunity to read it through the Business Analyst Times. Excerpt, "Recognize the cost of inaction. Managers spend much of their time putting out fires, and yet our discussion to this point has demonstrated that the cure for dysfunction may be closer that you think. By understanding the cost of conflict, we recognize the value of investing in practices that will help our organization to identify and address these hot beds of discordance within our teams." Read more HERE. Tips to help you recognize, realize and reduce conflict causes can be essential to building team engagement. Let us know what you think and if you have found methods that have been helpful with your teams. There once was a business leader
You may know him rather well He knew that change was coming But how to get there he could not tell So he paced and he pranced As thoughts in his leadership mind danced Daily he scurried about Going to and fro But never did he pause to listen If answers from within he could glisten He made a call from without And decided to spend a great deal of money Still never pausing to see If his own hive had any honey When the dollars were spent And nothing had changed He turned to his team members But they were estranged The ship had long sailed As the leader refused to listen Let this short story serve as your warning lesson Or you too may find All those who would will not any more Refer to previous article Disruption, Innovation and Simply Listening for more on this topic. |
AuthorThoughts on personal and professional development. Jon Isaacson, The Intentional Restorer, is a contractor, author, and host of The DYOJO Podcast. The goal of The DYOJO is to help growth-minded restoration professionals shorten their DANG learning curve for personal and professional development. You can watch The DYOJO Podcast on YouTube on Thursdays or listen on your favorite podcast platform.
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