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 | Jun 20, 2023 | Communication, Mindset, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership
We all have times when our messages land as intended and times when they do not. It can be pretty disheartening and disruptive when what we say causes friction rather than connection in our relationships. We may not even be aware of the reason. Our approach—or lack of...
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...
by Mindy Kantor | Apr 18, 2023 | Career, Emotional Intelligence, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360, Mindset, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership, Sparketype
If you are feeling unmotivated, overwhelmed, exhausted, or stressed, it may be time to reclaim your authority over how you allocate your energy. Your personal brand suffers when you take on more and more activities that directly compete with those you’ve already...
by Mindy Kantor | Apr 4, 2023 | Assessments, Change/Transformation, Emotional Intelligence, Enneagram, Mindset, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership, Sparketype
It can be quite uncomfortable when you hit a juncture in your personal or professional transformation effort and begin to question the following: “Am I or [project X] headed in the right direction?” Whether you’ve lost sight of the overall purpose or are uncertain...
by Mindy Kantor | Mar 7, 2023 | Change/Transformation, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Enneagram, EQ-i 2.0/EQ 360, FIRO, MBTI, Personal Branding, Self-Leadership
The term “covering up” has various meanings. From a communication perspective, I’m referring to holding back from expressing yourself fully to protect or conceal an aspect of yourself from others. For example, do you: Close yourself off from others in fear of them...
