Travis Bradberry

Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, clearly among the greatest leaders of our time, had different childhoods, different experiences, different struggles, and different goals. Yet both had a transformational impact upon those around them. What sets these two men apart as leaders? Transformational leadership. Unlike the traditional, dogmatic transactional leader or the hands-off…

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Increasing Your Salary with Emotional Intelligence

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Know anyone who wants to make more money? They’ll have to get in line. I think we’d all be hard-pressed to find a coworker, family member or friend who wouldn’t like to make more money. The trouble with earning more money is that it often requires a great sacrifice. With a higher salary come the…

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Why Your Coworkers Lack Emotional Intelligence

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If you are an emotionally intelligent manager, you work hard to have good relationships with your direct reports and are rewarded by your employer for doing so. You pick up on the moods of your people, and you’ve mastered the art of using your team’s collective feelings—both the sour and the irrationally exuberant—to create positive…

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7 Things Great Listeners Do Differently

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Listening is a bit like intelligence—most everyone thinks they’re above average, even though that’s impossible.And listening is a skill you want to be great at. A recent study conducted at George Washington University showed that listening can influence up to 40% of a leader’s job performance.

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9 Skills You Should Learn That Pay Dividends Forever

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The further along you are in your career, the easier it is to fall back on the mistaken assumption that you’ve made it and have all the skills you need to succeed.

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Master the Art of the First Impression

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Amy Cuddy, a psychologist at the Harvard Business School, has been studying first impressions for more than a decade. She and her colleagues found that we make snap judgments about other people that answer two primary questions

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8 Mistakes That Make Good Employees Leave

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It’s tough to hold on to good employees, but it shouldn’t be. Most of the mistakes that companies make are easily avoided. When you do make mistakes, your best employees are the first to go, because they have the most options.

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7 Things That Happen When You Learn to Be Alone

7 Incredible Things That Happen Once You Learn To Be Alone

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We live in a world of constant contact—a place that’s losing sight of the importance of being alone. Offices are abandoning cubicles in favor of shared desks and wide-open common spaces. And, rather than sitting at their desks working independently, school children are put in groups. It seems that a never-ending “ping” has become our…

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8 Secrets of Great Communicators

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When it comes to communication, we all tend to think we’re pretty good at it. Truth is, even those of us who are good communicators aren’t nearly as good as we think we are. This overestimation of our ability to communicate is magnified when interacting with people we know well.

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Stress Literally Shrinks Your Brain (7 Ways To Reverse This Effect)

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We all know that living under stressful conditions has serious emotional, even physical, consequences. So why do we have so much trouble taking action to reduce our stress levels and improve our lives?

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