When you become a manager, is it your IQ, your technical skills and your knowledge of the industry you’re in which is paramount – or your ability to influence, inspire and engage others? Or do they both matter equally? Generally speaking, we promote people to manager or supervisor because they’re good at what they do. [...]

Many of you are familiar with Emotional Intelligence. According to Daniel Goleman’s model, Self-Awareness is one of two domains in the area of Personal Competence. The second one is Self-Management which is not covered in this article. You might think of Self-Awareness as setting the stage for your life. For that reason, it as an [...]