Are You “Socially Intelligent”?

Are You “Socially Intelligent”?

We talk a lot about emotional intelligence—but what about “Social Intelligence”? We all like to think that we have good interpersonal skills and that we are way beyond the basics of how to interact with others effectively. Yet everyone can relate to this example...

3 Practices to Nourish Your Relationships

I often ask leaders I work with in organizations, university programs, and executive coaching sessions, “What is most important to you?” Not surprisingly, “my family and relationships” always falls in the top two answers. (Health is the other one.) Interpersonal...

“I’m Right–Don’t You Think?”

I was recently talking to an acquaintance I hadn’t been in touch with for several years. During the course of our conversation, she conveyed her extreme frustration with her current boss and her life in general. She described to me what she termed an “extreme...

Would You Be Elected to Lead?

What if you had to be elected to your leadership position by your team, and peers?  Instead of being moved to higher leadership responsibility by the leaders in the existing hierarchy, what if your career fate rested in the hands of the people that work for you and...