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INTERVIEW

Steve Cockram

GIANT Worldwide

The average team functions
with less than 60% of
its real potential

Steve Cockram is an expert in organizational management, emotional intelligence and
interpersonal communication. He is one of the founders of GIANT Worldwide, global
consulting company for leadership. He is a consultant for top businessmen and leaders
worldwide. We talked to him about the verbal communication of young people in the new
age of technological connection, on the effective communication in an organization, on
emotional intelligence…

Modern kids are spending most of culture so as parents we have worked
their time playing with their mobiles, hard at making sure they develop their
laptops, and tablets rather than commu- interpersonal/social skills as well as
nicating among themselves. In two de- their technical ones. History tells us
cades they will be the new leaders in the that humans are ingenious, adaptable
world. Is the humankind already on the and prone to being creatures of over-
path of lasting deterioration in verbal reaction. Each generation learns from
communication, just because it becomes the one that preceded it and make ap-
so scarce at young age? What are the im- propriate course corrections. This ‚New
plications from this that you envisage Victorian’ generation is reacting to the
for the global labor market? hedonistic excesses of their parents and
is noticeably more conservative in their
S. Cockram: Great question. I am the attitudes to alcohol, drugs and sex. I
proud father of three girls, aged 16, 12 have no doubt that the children of the
and 5, and they have never known a time millennials will react to their “always
without internet. Leaders define their connected” lifestyles and find a more

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