Category: Emotional Intelligence
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Resilience and Calm
I was going down to the store yesterday to get some supplies for a training activity I am using today. Unfortunately I had to witness the chaos, stupidity and general lack of resilience displayed by my local community. Yes, there were still people out there buying rolls and rolls of toilet paper and when I…
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Reading, understanding people and empathy
First, sorry, I haven’t written a post for a while. It has been a busy hectic time. On top of enjoying a very healthy business period I am right in the middle of moving house and location. I wanted to cover in this post the importance of reading and emotional intelligence. I read sixty plus…
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Self Awareness
I haven’t been posting much lately. Sorry. It has been a very busy period. It appears that training, in particular face to face training, is still going very strong. Great! Most of next year is booked out as well which is the first time ever. I am about to go on a bit of a…
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Can you learn Empathy?
Empathy is a very important skill and a big part of emotional intelligence. It is something we can all work on but can you gain empathy over time. I think you can as I believe I have managed this over the years. I don’t think I was naturally a very empathetic person. The article below…
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EI and Teams
This is an excellent article on how to raise the emotional intelligence in teams. Read the article here at HBR
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Body Language
I have been delivering a few emotional intelligence programs recently and the topic of body language and facial expressions is always part of the program. I am never quite sure what to say about body language as there really aren’t that many effective videos or learning resources out there until now. Watch the video below.…
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Emotional Intelligence Information
I was doing some research recently on EI and found a great website which helped me out with some learning ideas on EI. The website is called 6 Seconds. You might have already heard about it. If not, have a look. They have some very handy guides that I found very practical. Two that were…
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Get your Brain in Order
As trainers and consultants we need to keep up to date with all of the advances in Neuroscience and how they affect us and our clients. There is a great free webinar conference coming up (22 April) that provides over a week of streaming videos from world experts. Check it out and enrol. Enrol here.
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Developing Empathy
I have been covering emotional intelligence and especially empathy a great deal lately in training sessions and have a few sessions coming up next week. To develop empathy you need to talk about it, learn what it feels like and experience it. I have provided two good videos below which will assist with this process.…
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Happy Workplaces
Are you happy at work? I go to a lot of workplaces and unfortunately I don’t see too many happy people. There’s some out there but not many. A lot of the training I do around leadership is meant to assist in creating productive, happy workplaces but too many managers and leaders struggle to change…