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Leadership Skills: Reading the Behaviors on Your Team
In managing a team, it's important that you build good team leadership skills, and one ways to do that is to learn to read the behaviors of your team members. Humans are very complex! Commingling emotion, personality, temperament, intellect, and the motivations of the heart can make understanding what someone really wants hard to decipher. Having finely honed emotional intelligence (EQ) skills allows a leader to read the source of frustration in others and give them what they actually need in order to once again be happily engaged and productive. The following examples show how leaders can help ease tension by paying close attention to how their employees are acting.
Warning Signs that You Are Not Delegating
Over the past 25 years of serving as a leader and a consultant, I have seen a number of warning signs that pointed to staff members, business owners, church pastors, and leaders (including myself) not delegating. (You can read about the 7 things that keep leaders from delegating here.)
Breaking the Cycle of Living to Impress
Why do the majority of us try to impress others?
It probably begins as a child when you start to compare what you have or don’t have to others around you. Then, it is reinforced by so many others who really mean well. Sometimes it’s your parents who want you to have the best, so they can be seen as parents who give their kid only the best. It’s also reinforced by the kids you hang out with or by the “cool” kids in the neighborhood.
7 Actions of Leaders with High EQ
Leaders who consistently display emotional maturity are more likely to have a high performing and loyal team following them. But being an emotionally intelligent (EQ) leader takes a lot of hard work over time. EQ skills are best developed by focusing on one or two at a time and practicing them until they start to come naturally.
5 Keys to Contentment
Living a life of contentment is not easy, especially if you will have to radically change your lifestyle in order to do it. Here are five key steps to help you on your way to choosing contentment. Many of these principles even come from the Bible!