by Joanie Connell | May 31, 2023 | Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Listening
During a critical team meeting at a fast-paced tech startup, Miguel, a zealous programmer, openly criticized his coworker Victoria’s proposal. “This plan is ridiculously flawed and unworkable. I can’t believe you wasted our time with this,” he...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 13, 2017 | Generations, Leadership, Podcast
The BizWiz podcast is a short, 15 minute interview on a targeted business issue. In this episode, Doug Sandler interviews Joanie Connell on Millennials at work. Questions you’ll get answers to: How are Millennials changing the way people do business? Why...
by Joanie Connell | May 30, 2017 | Blog, Women Leaders
Women leaders are scrutinized at work for how they handle emotional situations. To be successful, follow these five tips to improve your emotional finesse. Be emotionally flexible One of the biggest challenges for women leaders is to navigate the fine line...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog, Emotional Intelligence, Hiring, Leadership, REAL Life Skills, Values
Do you agree with this? It’s harder to turn someone down than to be turned down. By the way people communicate these days, it certainly seems true. Take, for example, the number of times you’ve emailed someone and they’ve failed to reply. Have you done that to people...
by Joanie Connell | Jun 9, 2015 | News
By Joanie Connell On May 21, we taught the first Rady School Center for Executive Education (CED) course completely in the VirBELA virtual world. The course was aptly titled “Managing High Performance Distributed Teams” and we had participants as far away as England...