Inspire Leadership Blog
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EQ Delivers Your IQ
EQ delivers your IQ skills, knowledge and competence. If your EQ is underdeveloped, you are not delivering up to your value.
Dropping the Knife of Judgment
How do we drop the knives of judgment to create footholds of vulnerability and problem-solving, one neighbor, one person at a time?
#Microjoy to Engage Optimism
When optimism and joy are in short supply, it\’s time to engage #microjoy to strengthen our resilience.
How to Be Safe – Really
Ignoring Inclusion Safety is as deadly and negatively contagious as any pandemic. We need hand, head and heart all engaged for collaborative problem solving and solutions.
Keep Validation in Your Medicine Cabinet
Validation is a maximum-effect-with-minimum-effort emotional intelligence practice that increases engagement and COVID Brain relief.
My Encounter with a Toad: A Personal Path to Inclusion
Projection is our fast track to polarization and exclusion. When we’re alienated from what is within us, we will attempt to control and subjugate what is without.
Don\’t Be Fine: Your Team Needs You!
Fine is a word devoid of the emotional connection that is essential to professional success. Here are practical tips to invite greater engagement in your team meetings.
Dear Team: Don\’t Fence Me In!
How Essential Motivator (Temperament) Theory helps us recognize our core psychological needs, values and talents, and better leverage our differences together.
Stay Strong! Show Your Emotions
In chronic uncertainty, stay strong and carry on means to engage your emotions and emotional intelligence.