The CHAMPIONS TRIBE with AbiolaChamp

Behaviours Reflecting Lack of Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

There are many things that happen in the workplace that are usually dismissed as inconsequential but on a more cursory look, such behaviours speak to a lack of emotional intelligence. Most organizations usually comprise very sound personnel or those with high intellectual quotient,but Emotional Intelligence is largely lacking. Many teams with highly skilled manpower are not even aware of these traits because there is a level of success being achieved, the inability to even identify the absence of the broad elements of emotional intelligence shows that such teams are not operating optimally.The leadership of organizations must therefore take it upon itself to audit their teamsand identify the presence or otherwise of these crucial social skills. Do your team members have organizational awareness? Do they have conflict management skills? Do they have an achievement orientation? Is there a strong level of teamwork? Do they display a low or high level of empathy? How fast are they to adapt to new paradigms? Do they have a positive outlook towards the organization’s goals? These are the crucial questions that needs answers. Here are eight signs that the people in your organization are reflecting a lack of emotional intelligence.

Fun Things You Can Do To Recharge Yourself

One of the things you must come to terms with is that in some sense, you are a limited resource.  This means amongst many other things that, you neither have the energy to do everything you wish to do nor can you continue working indefinitely. The human body as ingenious as it is, is designed to balance out stress and rest. One of the challenges many people in the corporate world face is the inability to find a work-life balance or better put, a work-life integration. Rest should be a fundamental part of how you allocate your time, it doesn’t imply laziness – being a work horse isn’t always a good thing because it does have future implications.Research shows that the clear majority of bosses agree that vacation improves an employee's focus (78%) and alleviates burnout (81%). Employees who reported that their company encourages vacation (68%) are much happier with their jobs than those who work at places where either vacation is discouraged or managers are ambivalent about taking time off (42%). They are also more likely to use all of their vacation time (77% compared with 51%).  Letting your hair down is the recognition that you know and value your physical, mental and psycho-social wellbeing. By choosing to shelve strenuous activities and engage in relaxing and recharging activities, you’re giving yourself the permission to refresh and rejuvenate. Quality leisure time lowers your blood pressure, improves your digestion, increases the flow of blood to your muscles, improves the quality of your sleep, reduces your fatigue and boosts your own confidence. You have to intermittently find out time and indulge yourself in fun and entertaining activities, it makes you not just a better person but more importantly – a healthy person.Source of Data https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/workers-taking-more-vacation-.aspx

How Leaders Demonstrate High Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is non-negotiable for leaders in any facet of life, this is becausepeople skills is a more powerful determinant of success than even technical skills.Emotional intelligence is essentially the capacity to be aware of, control, and expressone's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously andempathetically. The concept, largely popularized by Daniel Goleman who defined it as, “array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance” is very important for decision-makers to grasp so as to achieve improved outcomes.One of the broad components of emotional intelligence is self-awareness which is one of the sterling qualities most leaders lack and as such they are unable to lead themselves let alone lead others effectively.When leaders do embrace this concept, the results are palpable both in the interim and in the long run. Emotional intelligence is quite an important skill to possess because it enhances communication, problem-solving, administration and fosters better relationships amongst stakeholders. Where certain traits of a leader are consistent with the tenets of emotional intelligent, it is believe that it has been learnt and is being practised.This episode provide tell-tale signs that a leader has a high level of emotional intelligence.

Why Most Salespeople Are Defeated In The Marketplace

Selling is perhaps the single most important activity that any profit-seeking organization engages in. If you’re not selling, then you might go out of business faster than you think. At the end of the day, it all comes down to the bottom-line; the numbers have to add up. Sales for such organizations is the exchange of value between themselves and their customers where the businesses typically offer goods or services at a determined (monetary) price. It is basically the consummation of the forces of demand and supply.As with many other things, selling is both a science and an art. It is a skill that requiresvery strategic application when executing. So if the revenue of your organization isn’tas impressive as you would love for it to be, it is most likely that your salespeople aredoing something wrong – they need a more systematic approach to consistently closing great sales. Your salespeople should realize in their engagements with prospective and existing customers that value is the name of the game – if people don’t feel as thoughthey are getting commensurate value for their money, it would be difficult to move the needle from prospecting to selling and repeat patronage.This episode provides simple reasons most salespeople aren’t making fantastic sales and what to do to gain better results.

Signs That Show Bad Communication

Communication is one of the most important phenomenon in the world today. It ispractically impossible to achieve anything without an exchange and understanding ofideas. Communication is central to civilization and everything that human beings have done since the beginning of time. Productive communication becomes an even more indispensable tool for people and organizations that seek to achieve desired outcomes in a profitable manner. It is a major catalyst for relationship management owing to the critical role it plays in harmonizing varying positions, conflict resolution and other engagements.Bad communication is a function of many factors but they can be broadly categorizedinto nurture and nature – nature for innate ability or inability, nurture for the learntability or the lack of it thereof. Many people are not self-aware to know that they are bad communicators because they have not been exposed to an environment that has challenged what they call normal. Possessing great communication skills in today’s world is learnt, it is both a science and an art but there are unmistakable signatures that expose the lack of effective communication. This episode shows eight signs of bad communication.