Posts by Valerie Patrick
How Better Beliefs Make Cognitive Biases Your Friend
How do better beliefs make cognitive biases your friend? Misunderstood cognitive biases reveal poor beliefs that limit performance. Three simple steps can be followed to improve performance. The first step is to uncover the faulty belief behind the misunderstood cognitive bias. The second step is to replace the faulty belief with a new belief that…
Read More026 – How to Avoid Disastrous Consequences in Technical Organizations
In this episode, Jill Schiefelbein, President of The Dynamic Communicator and author of Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, and Manage Your Business, talks about powerful ways for technical professionals to avoid some of the most common traps of poor communication in the workplace. Jill provides several science-based communication tips and even an example…
Read More025 – How to Improve Rapport with NLP
In this episode, Dr. Nancy Mramor Kajuth, author of two award-winning books and President of Transformedia LLC, talks about the power of NLP or neurolingistics programming to improve interactions with others in the workplace. Dr. Mramor talks about several different science-based techniques from neurolinguistics programming to build rapport with another person. == Subscribe to the…
Read More024 – How to Increase the Emotional Intelligence of a Team
In this episode, Dr. Vanessa Druskat, Associate Professor of Management at University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, talks about why emotional intelligence is important to team performance. Dr. Druskat also talks about the three, universal social needs that must be addressed in team settings and provides examples of ways to be…
Read More023 – How to Be an Inclusive Leader
In this episode, Lauren Leader-Chivee, an activist, expert, and advisor on diversity and women’s issues and author of “Crossing the Thinnest Line: How Embracing Diversity – from the Office to the Oscars – Makes America Stronger,” talks about why and how American diversity is its best and most underleveraged asset. Ms. Leader-Chivee also talks about…
Read More022 – How Women Can Be Better Negotiators
In this episode, Dr. Linda Babcock, the James M. Walton Professor of Economics and Professor of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about the factors that help close the performance gap between women and men when it comes to negotiation. Dr. Babcock shares her research findings on interventions that help level the…
Read More021 – How to Predict the IQ of a Team
In this episode, Dr. Anita Woolley, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University, talks about the IQ of a team which is measured by the performance of the team on a variety of different tasks. Dr. Woolley shares her research findings on what attributes of team members are predictive of a…
Read More020 – Social Tactics for Common Leadership Challenges
In this episode, Dr. Christina Fong, management professor at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, talks about a unique emotional state key to high levels of creativity as well as the art and science of self-promotion. Dr. Fong shares how a promotion and leading a change initiative can be opportunities for high creativity. Dr.…
Read More019 – How Organizations Can Embrace Creative Change
In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Mueller, management professor at the University of San Diego, provides a preview of her soon-to-be-released book titled Creative Change: Why We Resist It…How We Can Embrace It. Dr. Mueller talks about the new conversation that organizations need to be having in order to nurture the kind of creativity required for…
Read More018- How to Thrive by Closing the Gender Leadership Gap
In this episode, I describe what the gender leadership gap is and the primary benefit of closing the gender leadership gap. I also discuss the 4 leadership behaviors that come more naturally to men then to women on average and the 4 leadership behaviors that come more naturally to women then to men on average.…
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