Mindsets: The Key to Leader Transformation

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Riley and Jordan are two regional leaders for a large bank who have just flown into Chicago for their organization’s annual meeting, which includes a variety of leadership development trainings. In the days leading up to the training, both Riley and Jordan were encouraged to take a short personal mindset assessment. Riley’s results were largely […]

What You Need to Know about Self-Awareness

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Self-awareness expert, Tasha Eurich says that there are two types of people: Those who think they are self-aware Those who actually are She has found that 95% of people think they are self-aware, yet only 10-15% are really self-aware. This is led her to suggest that 80% of us are lying to ourselves about ourselves. […]

Mindsets Eat Strategy for Breakfast

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You have probably heard the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I think a more accurate statement is usually “mindsets eat strategy for breakfast.” Mindsets shape how leaders and employees see and interpret their world, which is what leads to a specific culture, or typical pattern of thinking and behaving within groups. If an organization […]

Owning Your Mindsets: The Key to Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence is a fancy term for possessing self-awareness and other-awareness in the following ways: Self-awareness = ability to (1) diagnose and recognize our emotions, and (2) control our own emotions Other-awareness = ability to (1) recognize and diagnose emotions displayed by others, and (2) respond appropriately to others’ emotional cues. Interesting factoids regarding emotional […]

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