You’ve heard it a million times before: always make a good impression. Great advice, right? It’s time to do the same with your kickoff meetings. Start with a bang. Come out swinging. Now’s not the time to hold back. Anything...
Why Do We Promote (or follow) Leaders Lacking a Critical Attribute? Poor emotional intelligence, or a total lack thereof, sticks out like a sore thumb. It is particularly confounding when the void shows up in our leaders....
If you are reading this, my guess is there’s a good chance this is not the first blog you have read from eQ, thanks for following us! We get a lot of feedback from our network that our blogs are great resources for...
Research by the University of Scranton concluded that 92% of us making New Year’s resolutions will break them. While a more optimistic Covey study said only 77% of us will fail to follow through. Basically, as individuals, we’re...
Last week was far from my best. On the same morning I received an unexpected email from a client terminating our engagement, I got a text from my Mom letting me know one of my brothers was in the hospital. All while I was...
“It takes so long for me to prepare for annual reviews – it wipes me out.” “I don’t find performance reviews useful at all. It’s only a chance for my boss to talk at me about his/her goals for me, but isn’t really about ME.” ...
As a business, you need to have compelling reasons in place for a customer or candidate to want to work with you, or for you. There are a lot of competitors out there, and a lot of relationships already established. So, how...
There’s an old expression about being “the cobbler’s children who have no shoes” that speaks to the very real tendency we can have as service providers to do better for others than we do for ourselves. For those of you under...
If you spend your day putting out fires, find the cause…you may be the fire hazard When I was a teenager, my family adopted the elderly dog of a family friend who no longer could care for her full time. We already had two cats...
