Moving The Needle For Leadership Development In 2018
Amit Gautam, Founder & Director of Technology Solutions – UpsideLMS
Lift Your Leadership
Elizabeth McCormick, A former US Army Black Hawk Pilot
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Danita Bye, Member, Forbes Coaches Council
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Stanislav Shekshnia, Senior Partner, Ward Howell International
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A new study by researcher Shawn Achor shows that women’s forums that strike a healthy mix of social connection, support, and motivation create lasting intellectual, professional, and financial results for female participants. In addition, a 2017 study showed 86% of female respondents believe participating in their corporate women’s employee resource groups (ERGs) specifically benefitted them and their career. And a whopping 70% of those respondents said their women’s ERGs had actually helped to create policy changes at work.
As long ago as the time of Hippocrates in the first century BC, it was known that the brain was divided into two halves with each half performing different functions and being responsible for different types of thinking. At that time, it was known that the left hemisphere was responsible for rational, analytical and logical thought and was considered to be the essential part of the brain. The right hemisphere was thought to be the lesser half - at best passive, at worst a remnant of an earlier stage of human development.
Effective corporate leadership is vital to the success of a company, but leadership isn’t something that people are born with. Individuals must learn how to be good leaders through the use of practice and dedication to becoming a strong leader. In fact, quality leadership consists of numerous skills that those who lead have learned, ones that can also be taught to others. With the right leadership training program, you can ensure that the best leaders run your company.
In the world of Human Resources and Learning and Development, the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI/EQ) is nothing new. Dan Goleman wrote the book Emotional Intelligence in 1996 and at The Institute for Health and Human Potential, we’ve been delivering our Science of Emotional training programs to organizations for more than 20 years.
The modern workplace is a rapidly changing environment and it doesn’t look like slowing down anytime soon. With advances in technology and many jobs being replaced by algorithmic computers and advances in robotics, effective leadership has never been more important. The ability to change, choose what has never been chosen before, and go beyond what everyone else thinks is possible will be the most effective qualities of leaders moving into the future.