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Why Great Leaders Stop Being Right So Quickly conscious leadership effective communication emotional intelligence executive presence influence as a leader leadership blog leadership coaching leadership habits leadership timing speaking too soon leadership Sep 24, 2025

 

There’s a reflex most leaders carry—one they rarely question.

It’s the impulse to answer.
To solve.
To be right.

And often… they are right.

But here's the trap: when you're quick to speak, your vo...

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Are You Safe to Challenge? A Leadership Lesson from the Cockpit creating safe teams crew resource management decision making under pressure effective communication emotional intelligence executive coaching flight 173 case study hooper rees james rees coach leadership blind spots leadership development managing stress psychological safety team communication team trust Sep 18, 2025

What One Flight Crew Got Wrong—and What Every Leader Should Learn

In 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 crashed just a few miles from Portland’s airport.
The plane didn’t go down because of weather, tur...

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The One Thing That Quietly Kills Team Performance blind spots conscious leadership effective communication emotional intelligence eq executive coaching high-performing teams leadership leadership development leadership growth leadership habits mindset shift reactive habits self-awareness team performance Aug 04, 2025

It's not laziness.
It’s not bad intentions.
And it’s definitely not a lack of effort.

The real issue?
Blind spots.

I was reminded of this again last week while working with a brilliant leadership team ...

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Would Your Team Benefit from Stronger EQ? effective communication emotional intelligence empathy in leadership eq training high-performing teams leadership skills team performance Jan 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected workplace, teams thrive when individuals bring emotional intelligence (EQ) to the table. The ability to understand and manage emotions—both your own and others...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Key to Psychological Safety in Teams effective communication emotional intelligence empathy in leadership eq training high-performing teams leadership skills psychological safety team dynamics team performance Jan 07, 2025

 When two or more people come together, their brains unconsciously scan the environment for potential threats. This deeply ingrained survival mechanism, rooted in our evolutionary history, doesn’t jus...

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