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5 Tips for Better Brainstorming Meetings

5 Tips for Better Brainstorming Meetings

A handful of useful tips and tricks for more effective brainstorming meetings (5 min).

#culturedrop, Leadership, Work Culture, Being a Better Employee, Communication, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, ProductivityGalen EmanueleSeptember 24, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How to Have a Difficult or Sensitive Conversation

How to Have a Difficult or Sensitive Conversation

A gentle step-by-step approach to effectively have a difficult conversation (5 min).

#culturedrop, Conflict, Being a Better Employee, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, Communication, Career DevelopmentGalen EmanueleSeptember 10, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Can't Be Here for the Haters

Can't Be Here for the Haters

We can't run teams (and our lives) catering to the loudest negative voices (4 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Conflict, Being a Better Employee, Work Culture, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback, LeadershipGalen EmanueleSeptember 3, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

5 Ways to Level Up Your Career

5 Ways to Level Up Your Career

My list of 5 'musts' to level up your career, regardless of your role or industry (5 min).

#culturedrop, Career Development, Professional Development, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, ConflictGalen EmanueleAugust 20, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Embracing Change Using a Tool From Improv

Embracing Change Using a Tool From Improv

Some tools from improv to help you embrace and be better at change (5 min).

#culturedrop, Career Development, Professional Development, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, Navigating ChangeGalen EmanueleAugust 13, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Improving Emotional Intelligence Part 3: Skilled Listening

Improving Emotional Intelligence Part 3: Skilled Listening

How you make others feel has a huge impact on building healthy relationships (3 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Career Development, Mindset, Communication, Professional Development, Being a Better EmployeeGalen EmanueleJune 4, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Don't Punish People

Don't Punish People

It's a real bad look to drill holes in other people's boats (2 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Work Culture, Conflict, Career Development, MindsetGalen EmanueleMay 28, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Dealing With Someone Who Complains About Others

Dealing With Someone Who Complains About Others

Some tools to help redirect and guide someone who's complaining about others (5 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Work Culture, Leadership, ConflictGalen EmanueleMay 21, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Consistency Builds Trust & Confidence

Consistency Builds Trust & Confidence

Trust and confidence in ourselves and others doesn't fall from the sky (3 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Professional Development, Work Culture, LeadershipGalen EmanueleMay 14, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

A Conflict Management Tip to Keep Peace of Mind

A Conflict Management Tip to Keep Peace of Mind

A really useful tool to help when navigating difficult situations or people (3 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better EmployeeGalen EmanueleMay 7, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How Workplaces Are Like Romantic Relationships

How Workplaces Are Like Romantic Relationships

If it ain't good, you don't owe anyone to stay in it - which goes both ways (3 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, Work Culture, Career Development, Hiring & FiringGalen EmanueleApril 23, 2024Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Be Kind, Be Gentle

Be Kind, Be Gentle

Being kind unlocks a lot of doors in yourself and others (2 min).

#culturedrop, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, Career Development, Emotional IntelligenceGalen EmanueleDecember 5, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

The Best Use of Power & Authority as a Leader

The Best Use of Power & Authority as a Leader

How and when it makes sense for leaders to assert their authority (3 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Accountability, Being a Better Employee, Communication, Mindset, Saying YesGalen EmanueleSeptember 19, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Bring Out the Best in Other People

Bring Out the Best in Other People

You can apply this at work, at home, really anywhere to level up your personal impact (3 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Being a Better Employee, Career Development, Communication, Saying YesGalen EmanueleAugust 8, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Stop Badmouthing & Gossip

Stop Badmouthing & Gossip

A thing I wish every company and individual person had a zero tolerance policy for (2 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Accountability, Being a Better Employee, Emotional IntelligenceGalen EmanueleJuly 25, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Personal Impact: What Are Your Three Words?

Personal Impact: What Are Your Three Words?

Identifying how you want to impact others and show up in your role/life (3 min).

#culturedrop, Being a Better Employee, Accountability, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, Work CultureGalen EmanueleJune 6, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

How to Develop & Promote Future Leaders from Within

How to Develop & Promote Future Leaders from Within

How to use internal development to retain talent & strengthen culture (5 min).

#culturedrop, Being a Better Employee, Career Development, Feedback, Leadership, Professional DevelopmentGalen EmanueleJanuary 31, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

The Growth Mindset Destroyer: Starting Perfect

The Growth Mindset Destroyer: Starting Perfect

This simple mindset shift is key to growth mindset and applies to any and everything (3 min).

#culturedrop, Emotional Intelligence, Being a Better Employee, Career Development, Mindset, Navigating ChangeGalen EmanueleJanuary 10, 2023Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Changing Negative Behavior With "Three Nice Things"

Changing Negative Behavior With "Three Nice Things"

A simple trick to use in the moment to replace this behavior (2 min).

#culturedrop, Being a Better Employee, Emotional Intelligence, Mindset, CommunicationGalen EmanueleDecember 13, 2022Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop

Make Peace with a Challenging Coworker

Make Peace with a Challenging Coworker

Go generate something good (2 min).

#culturedrop, Communication, Being a Better Employee, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Conflict, Work CultureGalen EmanueleNovember 22, 2022Shift Yes, Galen Emanuele, team culture, teams, eq, Culture Drop, #culturedrop