| | | Leading With Your EQ As a leadership development trainer, Jennifer Stanford realized a change of focus was needed. The popular leadership advice 20 years ago included explaining your leadership style to your employees, so they would know how to approach you. It espoused an almost parent-child relationship, where an employee needed to adjust her behavior based on a boss’s preference.
Stanford, CEO of Emergent Performance Solutions and the keynote speaker for the upcoming Adventist Women Leaders Luncheon, knew that people could behave for a short period of time in a way that appealed to others. However, if they didn’t believe in it, the behavior would quickly stop. Then she was introduced to the emotional intelligence (EQ) leadership approach, based on psychology research that built “better character and better relationships". |
| | "It flows through everything I do: 'How do we bring the best of ourselves in all areas?'" |
| “As we are trying to move up the leadership ladder or have impact … it’s really about where my power comes from,” she said. “[It’s] not from demonstrating who I am. It’s being able to connect with people.” She not only incorporated the ideas into her business, but found it enhanced her interactions with her husband and the Pathfinders at church. “It flows through everything I do: '... How do we bring the best of ourselves in all areas?'” For 15 years, she has trained leaders to focus on emotional intelligence. At the Adventist Women Leaders Luncheon (see invitation below) to be held Jan. 16, 2019, at the North American Division Ministries Convention in Albuquerque, N.M., she’ll offer her insight on growing as leaders and increasing your ability to connect to a broader audience with differing perspectives. Hope to see you there! |
| | — Michele Joseph, managing editor, Adventist Women Leaders newsletter |
| | Meditations
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." — Philippians 2:3,4, New International Version |
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| | | Coming up Is EQ more important than IQ? |
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