Author: Eric Douglas Blog

Eric Douglas is the senior partner and founder of Leading Resources Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on developing high-performing organizations. For more than 20 years, Eric has successfully helped a wide array of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations achieve breakthroughs in performance. His new book The Leadership Equation helps leaders achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a leadership culture.

Zeroing In On Your Own Communication Style

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Understanding your style of communicating would be relatively easy if you limited yourself to one of the four basic styles. However, depending on the situation, you …

Team Operating Principles

These “rules of engagement” or “operating principles” can go a long way toward minimizing team conflicts and helping people build trust.

Four Basic Communication Styles (Video Explanations)

When you take the Communication Styles Profile, the first payoff is discovering the styles of communicating you use most often – Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer. We tend to use two of these styles more than the others. But we have within ourselves the ability to use any of these styles in different situations. Directors …

The Benefits of Onboard Coaching: Assuring the Success of New Executives

One of the most valuable ways to assure high levels of success for leaders in your organization is to create an effective onboard coaching experience.

Personality Theory

Anthropology helps answer the question, “where did our communication styles come from?”

Where Do Communication Styles Come From?

Our research has shown that there are four basic styles of communicating. These styles affect all of our communications with other people.

What’s Your Preferred Decision-Making Style?

Everyone has a preferred decision-making style. Knowing your style can give you more insight into why you make the decisions you do and help you to improve your decisions.

Why Communication Competency Is More Important Than Ever

Several trends are making communication competency more important today than ever before.

CNIP Leadership

Recently I came up with a new acronym – CNIP – to describe a process that leaders can use to think about what’s important.

How do you help someone become a skilled, competent communicator?

Consultants are usually hired to help organizations revolutionize their way of doing business. Sometimes the solutions are readily apparent:

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