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  When I conduct workshops with executives, I give them an exercise: Write down as many feeling words as you can in 30 seconds. When those 30 seconds are over, I ask everyone who is impressed with their list to raise their hands. No one has ever raised their hand.  The average number of feeling words they're able to produce is five.  The vast majority of the audience feels horrified by their inability to name feeling words beyond happy, sad, angry, anxious, and scared. But they quickly gain a sense of relief when they learn that their counterparts (whom they admire and respect) have equally slim emotional vocabularies. The truth is, despite the fact that we throw around the phrase emotional intelligence, most of us don't spend much time actually thinking about our emotions and how those emotions affect how we think and how we behave.  If you're like most people, your lack of emotional awareness might be affecting your professional life. Here are four emotional mistak...

  As digital transformation initiatives accelerate, it is a good time to think about who in your company is leading these efforts, and who gets a voice in those plans. In a recent report, 86% of manufacturers have appointed digital transformation leaders—37% are from operations, and 30% from IT and the remaining span across engineering, finance and dedicated digital transformation teams. An important team that must be considered in relation to digital transformation efforts though, is HR and people operations . Digital Transformations Are About People Although digital transformation is heavily technology centered, it’s a mistake to only focus on roles and departments that are tech-intensive. Digital transformations are just as much about the people as they are about the technology. “There’s a myth that digital transformation is more tech focused. In reality, it’s the people that make it happen,” said Christopher Lind, Head of Global Digital Learning at GE Healthcare. “If you're vie...