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Empathy vs. Detachment

International Coach Academy

One side represents the client’s perspective, and one side represents mine. Knowing how important a leader is to an employee’s experience it is easy to see how critical strong leadership skills are. Empathy is one of the more critical skills needed to become an effective leader.

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Creating High-Performing Teams Like a Jazz Band with Gerald J. Leonard

Crestcom

I joined a band later on with some friends of mine and I had to talk about this in my TEDx talk. And I think it also makes soft skills that much more important, too. Leonard: But you know what that, what happened was I just fell in love with playing the guitar and playing, you know, string instruments.

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Check-up for self-delusion | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

The nail in the coffin wasn't the NFL studies – it was a teammate of mine who after playing 9 years of tackle football is having memory problems. Mine is financial, theirs is physical. Trunk's arguments made here… Regarding football, I call "poppycock," if only as a matter of rhetoric (hers and mine).

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