Thank you for attending Leadership Training. As promised, here is a page full of resources, including follow-up reading, self-assessments, book recommendations, and more! Please feel free to reach out to me anytime!
Perception versus Reality:
- Perception vs. Reality: Gaining Clarity Within – The Pleasant Mind, May 27, 2022
- Perception is Not Reality – Psychology Today, August 5, 2019
- Eight Ways Your Perception of Reality is Skewed – Greater Good Magazine (University of California – Berkeley), September 3, 2020
Stradivarius Effect:
- Violinists Can’t Tell the Difference Between Stradivarius Violins and New Ones – Discover, January 2, 2012
- Players and Listeners Both Prefer a New Violin to a Stradivarius – The Atlantic, May 8, 2017
- Study Finds the Accidental Genius of Stradivarius Violins – The Telegraph, July 11, 2018
- The Secrets of the Violin – Part III: The Stradivarius Effect – Medici.tv (documentary)
- The Look of Music – Harvard Gazette, August 19, 2013
- People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise – Harvard Business Review, May 19, 2016
Dunning-Kruger Effect:
- Why Bad Leaders Think They Are Good Leaders – Business Insider, August 19, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Helps Explain Why People Resist Hearing Constructive Criticism – Forbes, February 22, 2017
- Those Who Can’t, Don’t Know It – Harvard Business Review, December 2005
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows Why Some People Think They’re Great Even When Their Work is Terrible – Forbes, January 24, 2017
Self-Assessments:
- MindTools.com EQ Self-Assessment (FREE) – A great tool for a simple assessment of your emotional intelligence and some steps to improvement. (15 questions, approximately 5 minutes)
- Rebel Talents’ Rebel Assessment (FREE) – How much of a rebel are you? This is a fantastic test to see how rebellious you are in your problem-solving skills…and how to make the most of that talent! (30 questions, approximately 15 minutes)
- What Type of Problem-Solver Are You? from Stop Guessing (book) – Thought-provoking questions to 24 scenarios that help to assess what kind of problem-solver you are and a look at your possible strengths and weaknesses. (24 questions, approximately 15 minutes)
- Negotiation/Conflict Management Style Assessment
Problem Solving:
- Problem-Solving Strategies and Obstacles, VeryWell Mind
- Why Groups Struggle to Solve Problems Together, Harvard Business Review
- Take This 5-Minute Test To See If You Have High Emotional Intelligence, INC.
- The Secret To Better Problem Solving, HBR Podcast
- When Solving Problems, Think About What You Could Do, Not What You Should Do, Harvard Business Review
- Let Your Workers Rebel, Harvard Business Review
- BOOK: Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life, by Francesca Gino (available on Amazon)
- Drunk People are Better at Creative Problem-Solving – Harvard Business Review, May-June 2018 issue
Book Recommendations (while I LOVE to support local business and I encourage you to do so, I have included Amazon links for each book, especially for you fellow Prime members):
- Setting the Table, by Danny Meyer
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher and William Ury
- Getting Past No: Negotiating In Difficult Situations, by William Ury
- Year of Yes, by Shonda Rhimes
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, by Chris Voss
- Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, et al
Other Resources:
- Is the Dress White and Gold or Black and Blue? – Business Insider
- Bullet Journal: We discussed this as a tool to help track and see emerging trends that can assist you with problem-solving, goal-setting, and EQ development and improvement. The link above is a how-to from the inventor of the Bullet Journal. Also, here’s an alternative link to a very minimalist approach to the Bullet Journal. And one more link you might enjoy (though this video is somewhat lengthy) is this video entitled “what I was doing wrong in my bullet journal.”
Downloads:
- Problem Solving with Emotional Intelligence (worksheet)