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Learning Agility
What are you going to put on your development plate this spring? Consider your learning agility. Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, is known for deliberately seeking out the unfamiliar and figuring out how to get things done when faced with new challenges. This is a key component of being an agile learner. “ “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy > According to... -
Listening Leaders
For many of us, listening is a challenging skill to master. One could argue that listening is simple – it requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we really don’t have to do anything else. So what gets in the way? While someone is speaking, our minds are busy reacting or filtering: Assuming – I know what you are going to say Solving – I wish... -
Self-Awareness
Daniel Goleman in his 1998 book Emotional Intelligence, referred to self-awareness as the first component of emotional intelligence and defined it as “the ability to recognize and understand your moods, emotions, and drives, as well as their effect on others”. More recently in Becoming an Agile Leader by Victoria Swisher, 2012, self-awareness is described as “the degree to which an individual has personal insight, clearly understands their own strengths...