8 Leaders Loop skills on emotional intelligence & relationships. Read each one, then prove it with a short Skill Check to build toward your Leaders Loop Credentials.
There is no single right way to handle a disagreement, only a right way for the situation in front of you. The Thomas-Kilmann model gives you five named options and a way to choose between them on purpose, instead of reaching for the same reflex every time.
The day you need a colleague to drop everything and help you is the worst possible day to start building the relationship, which is why the leaders who get things done invest in those bonds long before the pressure arrives.
The contacts who open the most doors are rarely your closest friends, they're the people you half-know, in corners of the world your inner circle never reaches. Understanding why turns networking from a chore into a discipline.
Feedback is the cheapest development tool a leader has and the one most often botched, and the research says botching it doesn't just waste the moment, it can leave the person worse than if you'd said nothing.
Trust feels like a single thing you either have or you don't, but the research breaks it into parts, and once you can see the parts, you can work on the one that's actually letting you down.
The leaders we call "intuitive" rarely have a sixth sense, they have a habit of checking their first guess before they act on it, because everyday mind-reading is far less accurate than the confident feeling it produces.
Before you can manage a team, you have to manage the one person who is always in the room, yourself. These two skills are how that is done, and most leaders are worse at the first than they think.
Empathy is not about being nice. It is the skill of accurately reading what other people are thinking and feeling, and then deciding what to do with that information, which is a separate skill entirely.
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