Travis Bradberry

challenges successful people overcome

7 Challenges Successful People Overcome

Here are a few challenges successful people overcome and how they do it. Where others see impenetrable barriers, successful people see challenges to embrace and obstacles to overcome. It’s truly fascinating how successful people approach problems. Their ability to let go of negativity boosts their confidence in the face of hardship, which otherwise holds so…

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Emotional Intelligence Strategies and Solutions

Emotional Intelligence and Job Function

The Technical Manual for the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal reveals interesting findings from a study of more than 13,000 individuals worldwide. Employees from various job functions, in different organizations and countries, were asked to evaluate their emotional intelligence by answering 28 questions. Job functions included sales, marketing, finance, operations, customer service, human resources, information technology (IT), engineering,…

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Emotional Conversations

9 Things That Make Good Employees Quit

It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about—few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter:…

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Emotional Conversations

How Emotionally Intelligent People Handle Toxic People

Toxic people defy logic. Some are oblivious to their negative effects on others, while some enjoy causing chaos and provoking people. Either way, they create unnecessary complexity, strife, and worst of all stress. The Effects of Stress on the Brain Studies have long shown that stress can have a lasting, negative impact on the brain….

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Are You An Adaptive Leader?

One of the most popular Dilbert comic strips in the cartoon’s history begins with Dilbert’s boss relaying senior leadership’s explanation for the company’s low profits. In response to his boss, Dilbert asks incredulously, “So they’re saying that profits went up because of great leadership and down because of a weak economy?” To which Dilbert’s boss…

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