by Mindy Kantor | Aug 22, 2023 | Career, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership
When you’re “situationally aware,” you keenly observe your surroundings and pick up on both verbal and nonverbal cues from others. You trust your gut instincts about what’s happening around you and integrate that knowledge to help you choose how to act. Sometimes...
by Mindy Kantor | Aug 8, 2023 | Change/Transformation, Emotional Intelligence, Enneagram, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360, MBTI, Mindset, Self-Leadership, Sparketype
Many factors play a role in our path forward, such as our core motivation, purpose, drive, desires, successes, and failures. How our journeys unfold with unique experiences may be sprinkled with some highs and lows and messiness in the middle. Our interpersonal...
by Mindy Kantor | Jul 18, 2023 | Change/Transformation, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360, Mindset, Self-Leadership
If you’re like me and grew up in an environment where time was equated to clichés such as “Don’t waste my time,” “Time is money,” and “Being early means being on time,” you may have also adopted a “rush to get things done, so you can focus on what you’d like to”...
by Mindy Kantor | Jun 6, 2023 | Career, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Self-Leadership
It can be exciting and unnerving when asked to present to higher-level management or senior executives about a specific activity or high-visibility project. The more you prepare in advance, taking into account what’s important to your stakeholders, the better equipped...
by Mindy Kantor | May 16, 2023 | Career, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360, Mindset, Self-Leadership
You don’t need a specific job title to motivate and guide others. It’s a choice you can make at any moment. Taking a more active role in the well-being of others not only positively impacts them but activates the best in you as well. Sometimes all it takes is showing...
by Mindy Kantor | May 2, 2023 | Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership
Previously, I’ve highlighted ways to create buy-in for ideas and “influence without authority” by educating, asserting, motivating, and establishing a vision for the future. I’ve also shared how our brain processes the information it receives through our senses—to...
