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Social Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Leaders and entire organizations have discovered that success in the workplace has significantly less to do with intelligence or core job competencies and more to do with emotional and behavioral intelligence. The best technicians and the most brilliant team members will often end up with the highest degree of dysfunction when their emotional intelligence is very low. The fattest human resource files have very little to do with job knowledge and generally, have a great deal to do with poor behavioral adaptation and emotional intelligence.

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Motivation: The Art & Science of Recharging Human Batteries
Behavioral scientists and psychologists, such as Taylor, Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Skinner, Blake and Mouton, and Argyris, were concerned with human models and the most effective ways to motivate people. They all tried to discover what motivates people and how can organizations tap their resources to enhance their performance through highly motivated teams. If the ultimate organizational goal is higher productivity, superior quality, customer satisfaction and happiness, and increased net profit they have to invest in their people’s welfare and being.

Old New Ways to Motivate Employees
Over the last quarter century, I have studied and taught the theories on motivation of Taylor, Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Argyris, and McLland. Although each of those management and behavioral scientists has tackled the topic from a different point of view, defending his opinion with both theoretical research, observation, I find Herzberg’s theory the most practical and easy to implement in the workplace. Naturally, the work of all those scientists complements the whole approach to the very important topic of motivation, but herzberg’s points more clearly at the satisfiers and dissatisfiers in the workplace. His focus on the job content as a lasting motivator qualifies for more analysis and serious consideration.

Exploring Beyond Keywords Into Behavioral Research
Let's talk a bit in this article about researching the "search behavior" of your target audience as opposed to just "hunting for the keywords" they might be using. The difference between "keyword research" and "behavioral research" is that keyword research keeps us in a rather technical mode and focused on finding out what words people are entering into a search box while searching. But "behavioral research" has the added advantage of enlightenment and understanding that not only reveals what keyword phrases are being used, but why those keywords are being used.

Are You The Perfect Fit For Your Role?
Last week I arrived home from a conference to an email inbox that was very full. I spotted an email with a subject line reading: Behavioral Test. Never mind that they’re not called tests. It’s a survey that spits out an assessment of a person's natural behavioral style. There are no wrong or right assessments.
Financial Intelligence
For years, academic experts have been measuring people’s intelligence by administering an I.Q. test. More recently, behavioral scientists and those in the field of psychology have been discussing a principle they call emotional intelligence. I would submit there is another intellectual area of expertise I would call financial intelligence.

Social Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Leaders and entire organizations have discovered that success in the workplace has significantly less to do with intelligence or core job competencies and more to do with emotional and behavioral intelligence. The best technicians and the most brilliant team members will often end up with the highest degree of dysfunction when their emotional intelligence is very low. The fattest human resource files have very little to do with job knowledge and generally, have a great deal to do with poor behavioral adaptation and emotional intelligence.
Ultimate Comparison of Top Salespeople to Salespeople Who Fail
If you've been following this Blog you know I sometimes refer to the elite 5% of salespeople, the next 20% and the bottom 74%. After reading Super Freakonomics I was moved to take a new look at our data on the more than 400,000 salespeople we have assessed. Behavioral scientists would look at our data on the top 5% and report on some common findings. It might look like this...
Organization Development Techniques
OD is short for Organization Development. This is not a new term. Behavioral scientists have been writing about Organization Development for over 30 years. The science has evolved into many different approaches all aimed at the same objective: to enable massive improvements in organizational performance through specific and planned interventions. I have been involved with dozens of OD efforts over the past decades. Some of these have resulted in the desired improvement. Some have not. Let’s review four major types of OD interventions (there are others, but they are usually variations or combinations of these four):

Mastering Job Interviews Using the SOAR Answer Model
Make a great impression on your interviewer by mastering artful responses to behavioral job interview questions. The S.O.A.R. Answer Model is helpful for preparing for interview questions as well as keeping you focused in the interview while answering questions, especially behavioral questions.

Behavioral Tips and Interview Questions
Today, most employers are using behavioral interviews instead of the traditional personal interviews for selecting the candidates. Behavioral interviews are the interviews where the candidate is given any situation and interviewer will ask the candidate about his reaction if he were in that particular situation. That means, the behavior of the candidate is reviewed in such interviews.
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