Building Emotional Resilience: Tools for Managing Stress and Overwhelming Emotions

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In our everyday life, we come across various life hassles that are a cause of stress for us. Some would cause minute inconveniences while some can have a profound effect on us. Emotional resilience helps us not only deal with these uncertain situations but also to come out of it as stronger individuals. Most of us must have heard of …

Embracing Challenges and Fostering A Positive Learning Environment

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Learning has many definitions. Some define it as a permanent change in behaviour, others offer the explanation that it occurs due to a person’s experiences. The crux of all these definitions is ultimately that learning is a life-long process wherein an individual grasps or at least tries to grasp and inculcate the abundant knowledge they acquire in the world. However, …

Cracking the Code of High-Performing teams: Psychological Strategies for building effective team dynamics in the Workplace

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The APA (American Psychological Association) defines performance as “any activity or collection of responses that leads to a result or has an effect on the environment”. However, in the current fast-paced and result-oriented business world, performance can’t be equated with simply a result or an effect. It has to be a good, rather exceptional result for you to be qualified …

Beyond Words: The Power of Emotions in Teamwork and Strategies for effective collaboration

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Emotions illuminate various levels of human engagement. In daily life, human interactions are influenced by both positive and negative emotions. Interaction between humans requires the coexistence of emotions. Team building requires emotional intelligence, according to Randy Taran’s book “Beyond Words”. A team’s success is dependent on emotional intelligence, as demonstrated in the book “Beyond Words,” while the opposite can lead …

Effects Of Leadership On Team Dynamics And Performance

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John Maxwell quoted that “Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.” John Maxwell’s definition does away with hierarchy and authority and instead focuses on the ability to influence. Leadership is defined as the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objective. Leadership is an influential process that enables managers to get their people to work willingly …

Importance of Self Awareness in the Workplace

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Self -Awareness is our recognition of ‘SELF’, our Character, our Strengths and Weaknesses, our Desires, and our Likes and Dislikes. Socrates once said: ‘To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.’ “The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.” Self-awareness is having a clear perception of who you are, …

Fostering an Open Culture for Team Effectiveness

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Openness, Trust & Psychological Safety Openness is at the core of the concept of psychological safety. This concept was spoken about by Harvard’s Amy Edmondson in a 1999 journal article where she spoke of it in context to team learning and performance. She defined it as an absence of interpersonal fear and where people can speak up about work-related topics …

Cognitive Dominance and Leader-Follower Exchange Dynamics

Dr. Farah Naqvi Leaderhsip Development

Leadership has always been a topical subject in both academic research and the business world. The success of an organization is often attributed to its leader. Going by the researches in social psychology, people use two primary strategies to navigate up in the hierarchy. The first strategy is ‘dominance’ where people try to attain social rank by coercion, intimidation, fear, …