Emotional Intelligence in times of COVID-19
Research shows that rates of depression, stress, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress have risen significantly in the last year. As organizations and leaders, how can we provide the support our people need and access our own emotional intelligence in times of COVID-19?
What happens when procrastination gets the best of us?
About 20 percent of adults have regular bouts of procrastination. What happens when procrastination gets the best of us?
Stillness at the Core: How to Be at Your Best in Seemingly Never-Ending Uncertainty
2021. The calendar year has changed. However, if we are expecting things to be different just because a new year has begun, we are bound to be disappointed. Practiced the following three techniques to be at your best in seemingly never-ending uncertainty.
How Perfectionism Kills Excellence
Some people believe perfectionism is a positive trait. However, we have found that perfectionism kills excellence, harms relationships, compromises results in the long term, and generates frustration and disappointment.
Culture Change: For Culture to Change, Leaders Must Change
Leaders usually understand intellectually the logical connection between their behaviors and the resulting organizational culture. In our work at Axialent, we have never seen leaders rejecting their responsibility in that. What seems harder for leaders to envision from the beginning are the implications for their own personal transformation.
Survivor Syndrome: Tapping into the Player Within
How can leaders respond to the current challenges in a constructive way? One way is by asking people what they need to be at their best, inviting them to be players and to regain control of their situation.
Survivor Syndrome: Building Bridges
If “meeting people where they are” makes us feel loved and valued and can help us thrive, why do we often experience disconnection or misunderstandings instead? And how can we increase our connection to build bridges and “meet people where they are?”
Survivor Syndrome: Connecting Through Crisis
Being able to “put things on the table” and address difficult topics in an open, caring and compassionate way is a powerful way to increase connection among your employees.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Empathy and gratitude as a character-building workout
Whatever the lenses we choose to practice gratitude and empathy, they can be helpful to get some understanding of what others are living during this crisis. Realizing that can help put things in perspective – and it’s one of many ways in which we can individually do our work to avoid letting this crisis go to waste.
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Who do you want to become?
One of the most tangible aspects of a crisis like the one we are living is the material damage it causes: sickness, death, lost jobs, etc. There is, however, a less tangible but also very important dimension: the net balance a crisis has on our character as individuals, and the overall impact on society as a whole stemming from this.