Category: Emotional Intelligence
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Negative Emotions
I am currently completing a program on edX titled Empathy and Emotional Intelligence at Work. Good course with plenty of very interesting information and current research. You can still enrol and it is free. I am just going to link you to one article that is part of the program which I really liked. It…
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Psychological Safety
I have talked a lot about the concept of psychological safety in my training for years, especially as I now deliver a fair amount of training to NSW Health employees who have a value called openness which to me is the same as psychological safety. I always thought that this concept came from studies that…
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Emotional Intelligence
A friend recently asked me what should I do to develop and enhance my Emotional Intelligence during 2019. Big question, with so many different avenues. I thought in this post I would outline just some of ways you can explore EI and also enhance your own EI. First off do some reading. This article available…
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Multiple Intelligence’s
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash How much do you know about the theory and application of multiple intelligence’s? Here is an excellent article and a self assessment – quick and easy. Time to learn. Read the article here. Do the assessment here.
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Emotional Intelligence Test
Photo by Amanda Dalbjörn on Unsplash Last week and again this week I will be conducting some emotional intelligence training. I often get asked if there is a reasonable free test online and after playing around a little I have found that the test below is probably the best you are going to get for free. Try it…
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Emotional Intelligence and Meditation
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash I am speaking to groups in Bourke and Lismore next week on Emotional Intelligence. One aspect of this is the use of meditation to not only keep stress etc at bay but also to increase awareness and emotional intelligence. I came across this article recently and it does a great job of…
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Trust, Trust, Trust!
Photo by Jelleke Vanooteghem on Unsplash I talk about trust a lot. A lot more than I ever thought I would but trust is what holds organisations together and for that matter society. Lack of trust leads to gossip, fear and chaos. In an organisation trust must exist between the senior managers, managers, the employees and the customers.…
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Meditation and Emotional Intelligence
Photo by Josh Adamski on Unsplash I was presenting to a group last week in Dubbo on Emotional Intelligence. I mentioned at the end of the program that meditation was a very useful tool that they could use to increase their awareness and hence emotional intelligence. I got the usual looks of disbelieve and hence once again I…
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Soft Skills
Photo by Yuriy Kovalev on Unsplash A great deal of my training is essentially the development of soft skills. Conflict resolution, communication, emotional intelligence etc. Often this is not regarded as important as the so called hard skills such as programming, scheduling, planning etc. It’s always rewarding then when you see more and more research indicating that soft…
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Measuring business in a different way
Photo by Caju Gomes on Unsplash Interesting video below on measuring the intangible stuff in business. The guy, Chip Conley also wrote a book on this. The link below has some great points but check out the Emotional Equations. I have used some in training. Useful and fun. Link to emotional equations. Can’t see the video – click…