Posts Tagged ‘personal growth’

A few months ago, I came across a quote that has become a big part of what I teach in the realm of resolving conflict, leadership skills, and the DISC model of human behavior. I think that it came from one of the books written by the folks over at Vital Smarts. I don’t remember for sure, and I was unable to track it down today. Anyway, here’s the quote:

“You are on the wrong side of your eyeballs to be objective about you.”

In my blog reading this week, I came across this post by Kevin Eikenberry: Five Great Benefits to Leadership or Executive Coaching, and I was once again reminded of the quote above.

If you want to continue learning and growing as a leader, teacher, parent, or just generally as a person, find someone you trust to give you the objective perspective you need to make the changes necessary to become the person that you want to be.

In my experience, failure to accept outside perspective on issues where emotional intelligence is the driving factor in personal growth is a leading indicator for lack of progress in those areas.

Seek wise counsel. Look for objective, trustworthy, experienced mentors and teachers. Get on the other side of your eyeballs so that you can learn and grow.

Poor communication often precedes conflict escalation. If you want to become a master at resolving conflict so that you can move past the conflict to productivity, improving your communication skills can really make a difference.

As I was doing some research today, I found two fairly complete lists of communication skills articles. Here they are:

• http://www.inc.com/guides/growth/23032.html
• http://www.mindtools.com/page8.html

Read, enjoy and learn. Both of these lists have some really good suggestions.

Monday Momentum Message: Work to Improve Your Communication Skills