Understanding your strengths and weaknesses as an executive can only help you become a more effective leader. Though undergoing a round of assessments may seem like a futile attempt to tell you what you already know about yourself, these tests can be quite relevant in the information they provide. Assessments can give you insight into areas where

  Everyone thinks they’re smart. And lots of people are. If we hired applicants based on raw aptitude, perhaps we wouldn’t have a war on talent. We know making things happen at work is not solely based on our cognitive skills. It's funny -- when I sit at talent calibration meetings, I sometimes hear the

  One of the most critical decisions you can make is to take on the role as leader. If you aspire to this role, have you considered the intricacies of being a leader? There are three essential fundamentals that will help you become an exemplary leader: high emotional intelligence, inner agility and emotional bonding with

Experts say the ability to read, understand and respond to emotions in ourselves and others is crucial in predicting our health, happiness and success. You might think you're fairly intelligent, but are you emotionally intelligent? It's our emotional intelligence that gives us the ability to read our instinctive feelings and those of others. It also

    ("When You Make A Mess, Have Fun Cleaning It Up" is a special series of articles being published every Monday and Wednesday on Forbes during March and April. This is #7 in the series.) The senior executive—let’s call him Ralph—was fuming. You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears. And

  Anger is one powerful human emotion. It is also a very normal human emotion that needs to be expressed in a healthy way. But there's a place and time for appropriate anger, and we all have to learn how to manage it before it escalates. That takes emotional intelligence -- the ability to exercise self-awareness to understand the situation