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5 Strategic Reasons to Invest in Your Leaders Now!

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The tension is growing within your leadership pipeline, and now is the time to respond! To help, we are reflecting on five significant challenges facing today’s leader and providing recommendations for how to strategically support them and the future performance of your business. Check out our white paper, “5 Strategic Reasons to Invest in Your Leaders Now!” to learn more

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What Is Team Coaching?

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High-performing teams don’t just happen. At The People Side, we view Team Coaching as the development solution of choice when you’re trying to elevate the impact and value of a leadership team. Download “What Is Team Coaching? to learn more about how Team Coaching works and take a quick quiz to determine if it’s the right solution for your team.

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Matt Jewett Matt Jewett

Emotional Intelligence: Putting it Into Practice

This month at The People Side, we are exploring Emotional Intelligence. One of the key elements of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is Empathy, which, put simply, means appreciating how other people feel. We asked our Executive Coaches to provide their best advice for putting Empathy into practice.

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Claire Williams Claire Williams

Emotional Intelligence: When a Good Thing Can Be Too Much

Many leaders who take the EQi-2.0 assessment initially believe that the higher their score in a particular emotional intelligence competency, the more effective they must be in that area. However, we’ve all heard the phrase “too much of a good thing”; like many things in life, EQ in excess can actually do harm. Read on to find out what EQ on overdrive looks like.

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Claire Williams Claire Williams

You Can’t Be Great at Leadership Until You’re Great at This

In our Leadership Gamechangers series, this month we’re focused on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) as a key leadership capability. While there’s much more to EQ than Self-Awareness, understanding ourselves is the critical pre-requisite for effectively managing ourselves, our interactions, and our performance. Keep reading for our best advice on cultivating Self-Awareness.

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Executive Coaching Team Executive Coaching Team

Creating Psychological Safety

This month at The People Side we are exploring the concept of Psychological Safety – why it matters, what it means, the neuroscience behind it, and the behaviors that create it. To help leaders foster a more psychologically safe workplace, we asked our Executive Coaches to provide their best advice for putting this topic into practice.

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Candyce Penteado Candyce Penteado

Welcome to the VUCA World!

The first time I heard the term “VUCA” was eight years ago when I was teaching a leadership class on the West Point campus in New York. A former Army General led my class…

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Candyce Penteado Candyce Penteado

Be a Learner, not a Knower

have been developing leaders for nearly 20 years, but it never ceases to amaze me when someone comes to my training class with low expectations of learning anything.

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Candyce Penteado Candyce Penteado

Why Didn't You Tell Me?

For the past 10 years, I have been a part of the faculty at GE Crotonville. Crotonville is an oasis in Upstate New York where the best leaders are flown…

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