Four Key Steps to Achieve Your Goals in 2025

Four Key Steps to Achieve Your Goals in 2025

The Emotional Intelligence Behind Achieving Goals in 2025 The Emotional Intelligence Behind Achieving Goals in 2025 Change is an inevitable part of life, but how we navigate change determines our success. Leaders who excel in times of uncertainty rely on emotional intelligence to harmonize the dialogue between the emotional and logical parts of their brains to pursue excellence. This balance enables them to adapt, connect, and inspire—qualities that are essential for achieving meaningful goals. Transforming Intentions into Actions Achieving goals isn’t about wishful thinking or clinging to outdated methods. As we know, doing the same old things won’t open new…
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A Journey of Transformation Through Teaming

A Journey of Transformation Through Teaming

Aligning with Eddie Have you ever found yourself at the crossroads of another organizational transformation, feeling both the thrill and the weight of impending change? Throughout my career, rallying diverse teams toward a common goal has become a familiar theme. Change is daunting — people naturally resist the unfamiliar and cling to the known. Yet, as we all know, change is the only constant in life. In smaller teams, fostering personal connections and sharing visions and dreams around the lunch table is easier. However, maintaining this intimacy and alignment becomes increasingly challenging as organizations grow. Values and strategies can become…
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Build Your Personal Board of Directors: A Strategic Tool for Leadership Excellence

Build Your Personal Board of Directors: A Strategic Tool for Leadership Excellence

In today’s complex professional landscape, success hinges not just on what you know, but who supports you. Establishing a Personal Board of Directors, consisting of mentors, advisors, coaches, peers, sponsors, and confidantes, is essential for anyone serious about their professional and personal development. What is a Personal Board of Directors? A Personal Board of Directors is a handpicked group of seasoned professionals who bring diverse perspectives to help you navigate both career and personal challenges. This board goes beyond mere career advancement; it’s about creating a robust framework for comprehensive leadership development. Why You Need a Personal Board of Directors…
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Breaking the Mold: The True Essence of Effective Leadership

Breaking the Mold: The True Essence of Effective Leadership

Redefining Leadership Embracing Your Authentic Self: Leadership isn’t a rigid mold that we must each fit into, rather it is a fluid reflection of our deepest values and truths. Rather than look and act a certain way, we need to know and share our authentic self with others. The most effective leaders are those who continually reflect on their actions, decisions, and the impact they have on others. Awareness is every leader’s Superpower. The Essence of Self-Discovery: My own leadership journey began not in boardrooms or seminars, but through years of reflection. I pondered over questions like, “Who am I…
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How to Fund Your Leadership Journey: Tapping into (Hidden) Company-Sponsored Training Budgets

How to Fund Your Leadership Journey: Tapping into (Hidden) Company-Sponsored Training Budgets

Emerging leaders know the importance of investing in themselves to stay competitive. They’re looking to learn, grow, and discover who they are professionally and make their mark. But they sometimes hit some misconceptions and perceived roadblocks. Separating Fact from Fiction to Seize the Opportunity to Level Up As someone who has served as a Chief People Officer and Chief of Staff, I can tell you the absolute truth: Organizations, both large and small, allocate budgets for employee development. These funds are intended to nurture talent, increase employee retention, prepare future leaders, and enhance the skills of existing ones. Here’s where…
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Fostering Mental Health Awareness in Your Team

As we observe Mental Health Awareness Month in May, it is an excellent reminder for leaders to recognize their crucial role in caring for their teams and helping them avoid burnout. Employee burnout is a real concern, and according to the World Health Organization is a syndrome that can be characterized by 3 dimensions: exhaustion or energy depletion, decreased engagement at work, feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job, and reduced productivity or efficacy. To ensure delivery of results for the organization, leaders must take responsibility for setting up their teams for success. Understanding the Reasons for Burnout…
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3 Critical Questions to Ask Before Accepting Your Next Job

( … to avoid a toxic manager and workplace) Interviewing for a new job is a two-way street. Not only are employers looking for a candidate with the right fit for the position, but prospective employees are looking for a company where they feel valued and know they can grow, thrive, and achieve their career goals. As an employee or employer, it is critical to stop and consider what drives engagement in the workplace. If 67% of employees are either not engaged or actively disengaged, what elements are required at the individual, team, and company level to ensure workers are…
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Who OWNS Leadership Development?

It's Not Optional! When people tell me they hire strong leaders who are self-directed and they don’t need a formal leadership development program, I call BS. According to a 2022 Gallup article, nearly 7 in 10 employees worldwide are either not engaged or are actively disengaged in their job. They lack passion for their roles and don’t care to innovate, create, or put anything more into their jobs than the bare minimum. Leaders bear the responsibility to change that statistic. However, as reported by CareerBuilder, 58% of managers have never received formal leadership training. That means nearly 2/3 of your…
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Gratitude

Gratitude is the positive emotion of being thankful. It includes the capacity to appreciate what we have and thank others for their contributions. This E3 Emotional Quality is such a powerful leadership capability. The rewards of mastering this are exponential – gratitude boosts morale, enhances well-being, and improves productivity within a team. It’s so simple to act upon, but easily forgotten in practice. We all want to express gratitude and know it is the right thing to do, but if it isn’t second nature, an unconscious competency in your leadership toolkit, it will too often fall to the bottom of the priority list.    Unconscious Competence  As leaders,…
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From Consultant to CMO, The E3E Formula in Action: Genefa Murphy, CMO Five9

Ninety-two percent - The number of people that will NOT accomplish their goals this year! That number haunts me and motivates me to help inspire and enable people to defy those odds. So, what are the 8% doing differently? It is not rocket science, it is not complicated, you do not need a Ph.D., nor do you need money. The answer is simple. Follow the E3 Formula: E3E = EXPRESS + ENGAGE + EXECUTE, powered by EMOTIONS.  E Equals Why is committed to highlighting the 8% of leaders that do succeed and how they leverage the formula, intuitively or deliberately.…
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