Articles by The Emotional Intelligence Training Company
How traveling, and family, exercises our emotional intelligence skills
One of the best ways to live-test your emotional intelligence skills is to travel.
EQ Coaching is the best way we’ve found for individuals to disrupt their lifetime of habits, behaviours, and beliefs. EQ Coaching is the best way…
Emotional intelligence skills can make a critical difference in our negotiations.
Since humans are social and emotional beings, effective human interactions require emotional skills. This explains why the performance of organizations is deeply connected to the…
This is a webinar recording from January of 2022 on the top ten relationship mistakes leaders make.
The excitement of new EI skills can sometimes slip away as everyone starts to respond to the 150 emails that accrued. It’s hard to make…
Elevating your self-regard
We don’t make up these judgments. Dominant social discourses depict women as struggling with low self-esteem, imperfect bodies and flawed personalities. There are multi-billion dollar ‘beauty’ and self-help industries designed to ‘fix’…
Finding focus in the midst of complexity
What can we do about this increasing complexity of work? How do we counter this trend? Let’s take a look at how a few of our emotional intelligence skills can support us in simplifying and creating a more nourishing balance…
Unconscious bias, emotional intelligence and leadership
The strength of unconscious bias is it can help us think and make decisions quickly. The downside of unconscious, or implicit, bias is that it is unconscious and we do not know the extent of the impact on our thinking…
Five ways emotional intelligence can help you get your next job
Emotional intelligence forms a critical foundation for workplace effectiveness and is really important to your professional success. But can it help you get a job…
Reality testing and learning to change our opinions
Being able to accept and integrate new information is an emotional intelligence skill. Many of us think of reality testing as cognitive intelligence. To really grapple deeply with this, consider this funny thing about humans…
Fully formed and fully functioning is a fiction
From failing to speak up, to speaking too often and too loudly, the pressure to present as fully functioning and fully formed has many impacts and instantiations…
Authenticity condundrum: leadership skill or reason to be a jerk?
In which David examines some meanings and practices behind the idea of authenticity in leadership…
The backwards bicycle and neuroplasticity
The backwards bicycle was designed by some welders that work with Destin, an internet-famous science communicator. He’s funny and engaging and his videos are really great. Destin’s experience with the backwards bicycle is a fascinating window into a real life…
Healthy self-regard in effective leaders
Healthy self-regard is an essential quality in leaders. But balance is needed to avoid thinking too highly of yourself. Here’s a few ideas…
One of the biggest problems in workplace performance: lack of awareness of impact
Ever noticed that most workplace issues stem from someone’s lack of awareness of their impact on others? The key is to understand impact, not intention…
How to effectively engage in traditional family gatherings (like Festivus)
The family gathering is a common enough event, even in modern life. But for many people, weekends spent with family can be very stressful. Here are a few emotional intelligence skills to work on …
Emotional intelligence and gender based violence
It’s critical that we include the idea of gender bias in our discussions of emotional intelligence. We need to understand how our socialization affects how we …
Book Review: “The Other Kind of Smart”
“The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success”, by Harvey Deutschendorf, 2009. Harvey was a participant in one of my courses very early on in the ’90s – an ‘early adopter’ and has written a marvelous…March 28th EITC EQ Hangout: Self Regard
We’ve launched a new webinar series! We’re going to spend the next fifteen broadcasts looking at the fifteen competencies …
Emotional Intelligence resources
Leaders with Emotional Intelligence – published in the Art of Leadership Magazine, Spring 2013 (PDF)
Leading with Emotional Intelligence – presented at the ASEAN World HR Congress, Kuala Lumpur, 2010
Coaching Leaders – published in the Vancouver Board of Trade periodical, “Sounding Board” (PDF)
Return on investment reports
There are two very interesting reports with research on the measurable impact of EI development in organizations: