Website of the Month: Data-Face

Sep 27 2011
Dataface

This month’s website by Joseph Hager (a contemporary and colleague of Paul Ekman, the famous facial expression interpreter) is an interesting look at the critical link between the face – that emotion revealing target of our eyes when we encounter another human being – and emotions. Check it out and I’m sure you’ll agree there’s [...]

Bully Free at Work – Valerie Cade

Jul 12 2011
Bully Free at Work

This month’s book is “Bully Free at Work” (2011) by Valerie Cade. I met Valerie at a presentation she gave at the Strategic Capability Network in Calgary and I really enjoyed her presentation and was very impressed by her and was subsequently compelled to buy her book. I like the book because, ‘surprise surprise’, it’s [...]

Book Review: Discipline Without Distress

May 24 2011

Once again, I have chosen to review a local Calgary author I met at the Calgary chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. Her name is Judy Arnall and her book is entitled, “Discipline Without Distress” (3rd Edition, 2010) and can best be described as an emotionally intelligent parenting book. The subtitle is “135 [...]

Website(s) of the Month

This month we have website(s) of the month for you. I couldn’t decide on a couple of different quotation sites for quotes about emotions and emotional things. I did find it interesting that John Lennon’s famous, “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” from his song, “Beautiful Boy” was attributed [...]

Give Me A Break: the art of making time work for you – Culver

Apr 19 2011
Give me a break

I’m so excited by the books I’ve been given to review recently by really wonderful authors that I either know or have met. I’ve got quite the pile that I eagerly look forward to reading. Which one am I going to talk about this month? I think I have to mention my friend and colleague, [...]

Cool Inspirational Poster of Marianne Williamson Quote

Mar 09 2011
Girl laughs (cover of poster)

The EQ tool of the month is a poster you can print off and put on your bulletin board or frame it and hang it over your desk or in your work station. It’s a quotation that you may well recognize and that inspired me so much I asked my brilliant graphic design team from [...]

Don’t Let Emotions Run Your Life

Book cover for Spradlin

This month’s book is “Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How dialectical behavior therapy can put you in control” by Scott E. Spradlin, A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook. This is a wonderful workbook that I have found to be invaluable for examining our own relationship with emotions. I bought it from Odin Books in [...]

February EQ Tool Share of the Month

Feb 06 2011

The EQ tool of the month is theEITC Stages of Change document which reviews the Stages of Change Model created by James Prochaska and his colleagues in the book, “Changing for Good.” I first learned about the model from a handout that my wife, Jill, picked up at BC Women’s Hospital where she works. I [...]

February Book Review

This month’s book is “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative” by Ken Robinson. My brilliant daughter, Becky, and her brilliant partner, Sherwin got me this book for Christmas and I’m just loving it. If you take a look at Ken Robinson’s TED talks, you will become an instant fan. He’s very funny and [...]

February Website of the Month

My pick for website of the month is http://www.executivecoachingforum.com/ This is a group of executive coaches from the Boston area who have been working together since 1999 and have amassed a great many resources that they freely give away on the site. The most impressive freebie is The Executive Coaching Handbook, which, as you will [...]