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Category Archives: Personal Development

What is Emotional Intelligence

What Exactly Is Emotional Intelligence?

Communication, Personal DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensOctober 6, 2023Leave a comment

You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘emotional intelligence’ before.  (It’s also sometimes called ‘emotional quotient,’ which we’re not going to use,…

How To Take Initiative

Business, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Human Resources, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensAugust 1, 20231 Comment

Making important decisions, acting like a leader, being a person your colleagues can count on to get the job done…

The Single Best Technique to Prepare for a Presentation

Business, Careers, Communication, Personal Development, Professional Development, Public SpeakingBy Jeff HavensApril 3, 2023Leave a comment

In the past two decades I’ve delivered well over a thousand presentations, mostly live but also increasingly virtual as well…

Negotiate Like a Child

Negotiate Like a Child

Business, Communication, Job Skills, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensJanuary 5, 20231 Comment

I’m just coming off a very lovely few weeks with my family.  We saw friends, went skiing, and spent 12…

lazy young people

Destroying the Myth of the Disloyal Young Worker

Business, Change Management, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Generations In The Workplace, Personal Development, Professional Development, TeambuildingBy Jeff HavensDecember 5, 20221 Comment

As 2022 draws to a close, there are two issues that seem to have completely dominated the year – supply…

the most important sentence in leadership

The Most Important Sentence in Leadership

Business, Careers, Communication, Conquering Fear, Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Interviewing, Job Skills, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensOctober 31, 2022Leave a comment

At its most basic, effective leadership consists of two key components.  One of them is the human element – that’s…

What You Can Learn From a Pig Farmer

What You Can Learn from Pig Farmers and Pharmacies

Business, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Job Skills, Leadership, Motivation, Personal Development, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensOctober 4, 2022Leave a comment

One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about my job is the opportunity to meet people living in places I…

striving for consensus

Is Striving For Consensus Keeping You From Moving Forward?

Business, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Difficult Conversations, Innovation, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensAugust 8, 2022Leave a comment

Recently my wife and I were in Barcelona, visiting her family and 87 of their closest friends.  (Not quite, but…

Setting and Changing Goals

Why We Sometimes Give Up On Our Goals (And Why That’s OK)

Business, Careers, Change Management, Communication, Conquering Fear, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Human Resources, Leadership, Motivation, Personal Development, Professional Development, Work Life BalanceBy Jeff HavensMay 4, 2022Leave a comment

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut.  I also wanted to be a builder (which was…

sorry

Do Apologies Really Matter?

Personal Development, UncategorizedBy Jeff HavensFebruary 7, 20227 Comments

Recently somebody got mad at me for something they shouldn’t have.  That’s not just my opinion, either; they even agreed…

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