A wonderful TED presentation delivered by Itay Talgam. An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge - creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this delightful presentation, through demonstrating the styles of six great 20th Century conductors, Talgam illustrates how conductors do just that and in so doing provides an interesting metaphor for all leaders. I particularly like his comment on how it is not just the conductors story that is important but how it is important to enable other peoples stories to be heard at the same time. I hope you enjoy it.
Exceptional leaders recognise the need for life-long learning and continued improvement in their performance to remain on top. Business leader coaching has blasted into the mainstream as organisations realise their long-term success hinges on the aptitude of their leaders. Today’s workplace not only demands immediate results, but mistakes have become more costly. The irreplaceable guidance and feedback provided by business leader coaches facilitates peak performance among clients. Leaders learn while enmeshed in the context of their own unique work environment. Tailored specifically to the individual client’s needs, personality, and learning style, clients enjoy direct and substantial improvements in the management of their careers.
Your age, weight, income, IQ these are among the most important numbers that converge to form a comprehensive picture of your existence. Most people can readily recall these figures. Many believe these numbers dictate a person’s place or status in the world, but do you know the most important number to predict your success in work, love, and play? Your emotional quotient (EQ) represents how well you know yourself, understand others, and balance the demands of life.
If you are like most people, you spend one third of your life at work, or half of your waking hours. For many, the work that you do plays a significant role in defining who you are. Not only your job title and status; but your colleagues and associations; your financial well-being; your level of satisfaction or of frustration; your very sense of self is largely determined by your career, or by your lack of one. That is why it is so crucial that your career fits who you are, and that it accurately reflects your most deeply held values.
Have you ever sat down to study for a test or an assessment with great intentions to cover volumes of material, only to find that time slips by with no significant amount of revision or exam preparation completed? Have you found your mind wandering, daydreaming and contemplating more appealing activities than study? Unfortunately, this is not unusual and many students, who have the capacity to achieve high marks, end up with less than remarkable results because they have simply never learnt how to study. Studying is a skill and, fortunately, it is one that you can learn. Here are ten tips to help you make your study more effective.
Do you ever get irritated when a family member asks you to do something that you know they could do for themselves? Do you sometimes feel obligated to take on extra tasks at work to show your competence, cheerfulness, cooperativeness, or team spirit—or, worse yet, because you feel too intimidated to tell your boss or manager that you’d love to help but your plate is already piled precariously high with projects? Have you ever taken on a responsibility for a friend, neighbour, club, school, church, or other entity that you knew didn’t fit your schedule, your talent, your temperament, or your vision for your life simply because you felt you couldn’t say no? Well, if you have been in this situation, you’re not alone.
The latest buzz in the business and academic world is EQ, or Emotional Quotient, also referred to as emotional intelligence. EQ is touted as rivalling IQ as a measure of human potential. Corporations, school systems, health care providers, child development practitioners, and individuals hoping to improve daily functioning and well being, are all scrambling to find ways to develop and strengthen their emotional intelligence.
Do you have problems meeting your goals? Do you set goals, only to drift away from them after just a few weeks, or worse, after a few days? Do your resolutions fade as quickly as the new year celebrations? Have you by now, thoroughly convinced yourself that you're a useless goal-setter, that you'll never keep your resolutions, never be able to achieve your goals? If you answered Yes to any of these questions, don't despair, you are not alone, and the problem may not be with you - it may be with your goals!Download PDF Version of this article