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Social Awareness cognitive readiness social intelligence Sep 06, 2023

Adam burst into 90 seconds of non-stop profanity. All to tell Sam he had enough and he couldn’t take it anymore.

Once Adam got everything off his chest and calmed down. Sam got more background. Adam felt disrespected, wasn’t getting cooperation, and was beginning to question how he...

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Perceived Emotion cognitive readiness emotional intelligence Aug 23, 2023

Have you ever closed your eyes in a meeting?

Like in a 1-on-1, was the other person talking, and you just shut your eyes? Them thinking you might be nodding off or bored with what they’re saying? I bet that was uncomfortable for them.

Some people, like myself, close their eyes to get a...

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Remember Under Pressure cognitive intelligence cognitive readiness memory Aug 09, 2023

She was frozen. Standing in front of a room full of her peers and upper management, she didn’t know what to say. How could this happen?

This is her project, she’s the lead, she knows everything about what’s going on. But now, she’s reading her slides and flipping through...

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Mindfulness attentional focus cognitive readiness Jul 26, 2023

Mindfulness is not meditation.

I believe a lot of people think mindfulness is meditation so they don’t have to do it. They think to themselves that it’s to mystical or woo-woo, they don’t associate themselves with those things, so now they don’t have to practice...

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Social Intelligence cognitive readiness social intelligence Jul 12, 2023

To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The S and fourth category is Social Intelligence.

Have you ever seen people who...

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Emotional Intelligence cognitive readiness emotional intelligence Jun 28, 2023

To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The E and third category is Emotional Intelligence.

Emotional intelligence, EQ,...

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Cognitive Intelligence cognitive intelligence cognitive readiness Jun 21, 2023

To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The C and second category is Cognitive Intelligence.

Cognitive intelligence is an...

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Attentional Focus attentional focus cognitive readiness Jun 14, 2023

To help remember the four categories of cognitive readiness, we use ACES. This is not only a good way to remember but a good way to understand as one category feeds into the next particularly well, in this order. The A and first category is Attentional Focus.

Attentional focus is the focus of an...

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Future-Proof Your Leadership Skills with Cognitive Readiness cognitive readiness leadership Jun 07, 2023

The best way for a leader or manager to improve their skills for the 21st century culture is cognitive readiness.

How do you ensure your leadership skills keep up to date and improve as your career, business, industry, and world changes? How do you make the best possible decisions when dealing...

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You’re doing empathy wrong cognitive readiness emotional intelligence May 31, 2023

Has your significant other ever complained? I’ll wait. You may have to really think about that. Is it so infrequent that you forgot the last time they did or you didn’t even notice?

Enough sarcasm, it happens all the time, right?

How does it usually go? After you two talked and...

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Working with People or Around Them? cognitive readiness social intelligence May 17, 2023

How going it alone is hurting you

A lot of leaders and managers surprisingly go it alone, but that actually hurts more than it helps.

Because leaders don’t have the training or experience, they fall back on what they know: if it’s got to be done right, they’ve got to do it...

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Practice Your Skills cognitive intelligence cognitive readiness Jul 07, 2022

Practice for goodness’ sakes

It drives me crazy when people don’t practice. It doesn’t matter if they have asked me for help, received help from others, or read a book or watch some videos. The vast majority of people do not practice what they learn.

How do they expect to...

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