Leadership Development Resources at the Library & Knowledge Services : Selected Articles

Unlike your IQ, your EQ is highly malleable. As you train your brain by repeatedly practicing new emotionally intelligent behaviors, your brain builds the pathways needed to make them into habits. Before long, you will begin responding to your surroundings with emotional intelligence without even having to think about it. And as your brain reinforces the use of new behaviors, the connections supporting old, destructive behaviors will die off.

No matter how well trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own. That’s where coaching comes in.

Provides a framework for understanding the exercise of interpersonal influence in organizations. Describes some of the "myths and realities" of management that new managers discover--specifically, that managers are dependent on a complex network of relationships to get work done, and that they must influence others by relying on sources of power other than their formal positional authority. Describes influence as exchange within these networks of mutually beneficial relationships

The difference between managers and leaders lies in the conceptions
they hold, deep in their psyches, of chaos and order.

As part of an institution's core ideology and envisioned future, the article discusses the importance of fixed, core values and core purpose in successful business operations.

discusses each component of emotional intelligence and shows through examples how to recognize it in potential leaders, how and why it leads to measurable business results, and how it can be learned.

How to improve employee engagement and alignment in today’s organizations. One-way, top-down communication between leaders and their employees is no longer useful or even realistic. Five long-term business trends are forcing the shift from corporate communication to organizational conversation.

No matter how well trained people are, few can sustain their best performance on their own. That’s where coaching comes in.

Clinical leadership skills are more imperative in today's environment than ever before. Addresses the importance of institutional support for "a habit of inquiry," excellence and data expertise among clinical leaders for the organization to thrive.

Are leaders born or made? If the answer is made, then can leadership be taught and learned? These and other similar questions are the focus of this article which reviews the research in both leadership development and education. In addition to the literature review, a clear distinction is drawn between leadership development and education; current theory-building efforts are illustrated; and the paper concludes by proposing future directions in leadership development and education research.

Introduces a structured analytic process and methodology for integrating into professional practice proven interest-based negotiation technique for overcoming obstacles while achieving best outcomes.

You want to design the best company on earth to work for. What would it be like? The response from hundreds of executives all over the world, in a nutshell, is that their dream organization Is a place where: ' You can be yourself. ' You're told what's really going on.

Critiquing weak performance is a job nobody likes. but by taking a more open approach, you can be a better boss - and get a lot more from your team.

We all know what confidence, competence and authoirty sound like. Or do we?

Great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open to change.

Interviews with experienced buyers in large organizations yielded several
insights about gender differences. Greater sensitivity to differences among clients has also improved connections among colleagues. Companies should turn their focus on clients when they are in the proceee of promoting diviersity.

Persistent gender bias too often disrupts the learning process at the heart of becoming a leader. Here’s how to
correct the problem.

Describes the characteristics of well-being in resident physicians to develop resident wellness initiatives in postgraduate medical education