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Yes, You [Lawyers] Can Train That [Emotional Intelligence]. . . and Here’s the Best Way. . . .
By Dan DeFoe On October 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment · In Ability Emotional Intelligence, Attorney Mental Health, Attorney Professionalism, Attorney Well-Being, Career & Professional Development, Emotion Understanding, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence Training, Lawyer Characteristics, Legal Education, Legal Leadership, Professional Development, Training and Development
Like leaders in educational, business, medical, and other professional services organizations routinely do, legal leaders should want to train and develop their people. But, concerns about costs and benefits and projected return on investment in personal and professional development activities and programs work against and often derail implementation of those initiatives.
Other reasons include […]
Happiness, Quality Social Connections, and the Emotionally Intelligent Introverted Lawyer
By Dan DeFoe On December 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment · In Ability Emotional Intelligence, Attorney Well-Being, Big Five, Emotion Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence Training, Happiness, Interpersonal Relationships, Introversion, Lawyer Characteristics, Legal Leadership, Personality, Training and Development, Well-being
Can introverts achieve happiness? Researchers recently untangled some of the knots in the complex associations between happiness, personality, social relationships, and emotion regulation. They examined how quality social relationships and emotion regulation ability might positively affect the happiness of introverts. Their results clarify the nature of those complex associations, and the authors suggest how introverts […]
In the business (including legal services) world, job satisfaction determines key performance behaviors and outcomes critical to the life, health, and sustained prosperity of not only the organizations, but their workers, too. A leader’s effectiveness, i.e. the overall performance of leadership behaviors, influences workers’ job satisfaction. Emotional intelligence, shown by a line of […]
“Sensitive, but not sentimental.” That phrase can aptly describe the emotionally intelligent manager. Recent research suggests that leaders of legal and other organizations can put their fears about ineffective, “too soft” leadership aside. Why?
Research shows that emotionally intelligent managers’ greater sensitivities do not necessarily handicap their effectiveness at making tough decisions and their influence […]
Emotions can capture and dominate the mind, change information processing channels, and color the perception, thinking and decision-making processes, and behavior of lawyers and other professionals in their workplaces. Just like their counterparts in the business world and the medical profession who already have, legal leaders and lawyers must appreciate and accept the mounting evidence […]
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