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The Jiminy Cricket Effect: Cognitive Dissonance and the Urge for Consistency
Conscience is an inner voice that tells us what is right and what is wrong. When we are about to do something that is inconsistent with our conscience, we feel uneasy about. That feeling of unease is what psychologists call “cognitive...
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The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities
Peter Salovey and John Mayer developed a model of Emotional Intelligence based on four abilities. The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities focuses on how we process emotional information and use it to navigate...
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Cold Calling to Get a Sales Appointment
In the professional world, cold calling is not about making the sale, but to move you one step closer. And the most frequent first step is to get an appointment.
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Traits Models of Leadership
There are many approaches to modeling leadership. But, perhaps the oldest assumes that leaders are people born with a specific set of qualities, or traits. Today, we still recognize that there are some traits that can make us better...
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The Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton took the idea of task versus relationship focus and turned it into a full-blown model of five leadership styles: their Leadership Grid.
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Robert House and Path Goal Theory [Situational Leadership]
Path-Goal Theory is a contingency model of leadership. Like other situational leadership models, the approach you take to leading is dependent on the situation. In this case, you look at the people you are leading and the nature of the...
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Avoid Leaking Authority and Giving up Gravitas
In other videos on Gravitas, I've spoken about acquiring authority. In this last video of the series, I talk briefly about how to avoid leaking authority.
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Basics of Motivation: Incentives - do they work?
One thing most people 'know' about motivation is the value of incentives. The problem is... Incentives don't always work. So, in this video, we'll look at when incentives do and do not work and understand why.
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The Psychology of Motivation: Understand the Basics
Motivation is a mental and emotional state. So, we need to understand the basics of the psychology of motivation and how motivation works in the brain. That's what we will do in this video.
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Establishing Team Behavior Norms - Team Development
Team behavior norms are the unwritten rules that team members follow. Establishing your team behavior norms is an important step in moving your team to high performance mode.
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John Whitmore's Team Development Model
He may be most famous for his GROW Model of coaching, but John Whitmore's Team Development Model is a valuable way to understand how groups form into teams.
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Why do we need Organizations? Structure vs Agility
Why do we need Organizations? The answer lies in the trade-off of Structure versus Agility.
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What are Charles Handy's Gods of Management?
In Charles Handy’s 1978 book, Gods of Management, he articulated four organizational cultures or models for how the organization works.
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Four Quadrants of Team Leadership
A team can focus on two things: task and relationship. And, for each, there are 2 elements: the content and the process. This gives us 4 quadrants of team leadership.
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Daniel Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders
In his book, The New Leaders, Daniel Goleman and his co-authors set out 6 leadership styles for team leaders.
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Get a Favor: How to Get Someone to Help you or Do You a Favor
We often need other people to do something for us. But we don’t necessarily have the authority to tell them to do it, or to ask them and expect them to comply. This is where influence is at a premium. You need to combine some long-term...
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Critical Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: The Cases For and Against
Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...
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Travelling to Your Presentation: Speaker's Checklists for Road Warrior Presenters
Wherever you go to present – whether the next meeting room down the hall, or a big hotel in a foreign country, it’s a good idea to have a speaker's checklist of what you need to take, and what to do when you arrive. Here are two useful...
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What is an Organization? - the Nature of Organizations
This is the first video of our course on the nature of organizations, so we answer the question: 'What is an Organization?'
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How to Support Your Team for Learning: 7 Things
A big part of how I see my responsibilities as a team leader is in developing the skills, talents, and knowledge of the people under my care. I need to support them for learning.
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Fostering Responsibility within Your Remote Team
This challenge is about how to create accountability, responsibility, and an appropriate balance of managerial control and team-member autonomy. It is especially hard in remote teams.
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Unity, Diversity, and Comradery in Moby Dick
Ishmael, the narrator of Moby Dick, forms a deep bond with Queequeg, another worker aboard the ship coming from the Pacific Islands. Through this friendship, Melville explores themes of friendship, marriage-like intimacy, and mutual...
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Frederick Herzberg and the Two-factor Theory - Content Models of Motivation
Motivation is not the opposite of de-motivation. That's the conclusion that Frederick Herzberg came to. Rather, he recognized there are two sets of factors: Motivators, and Hygiene factors. In this video, we examine Frederick Herzberg's...
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The Fundamentals of Motivation - Motives, Drives, and being Blocked
In this video, let's start our solid content on workplace motivation with the fundamentals of motivation: - Drives - Motives - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation - What happens when we find ourselves blocked