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How traveling, and family, exercises our emotional intelligence skills
One of the best ways to live-test your emotional intelligence skills is to travel.
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…
The pandemic has required us to have a hyper-focus on the safety of ourselves, our families and our communities. At the same time, we have…
We’ve discovered the joy of having a larger number of international participants in our trainings. People from different walks of life, and different time zones,…
This might be a wake up call to all that we have taken for granted – the choices, the freedom of movement, our insatiable consumerism,…
Yes, these are incredibly unstable times and the impacts are being felt by everyone worldwide. Collectively, we are now thinking about the most vulnerable, the…
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 …
Emotionally intelligent features of the Bechdel Test
The Bechdel test is hitting the mainstream, and I think it has some emotionally intelligent features …
The Emotional Intelligence of Physicians
Doctors are unique in many ways. For example, there is no other group of people on the planet for whom we have a greater expectation that they have great technical knowledge and demonstrate compassion and caring…
Culture eats strategy
The full quotation is, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” and comes from the great Peter Drucker, considered to be the ‘father of contemporary management theory.’ I recently heard a manager, in an attempt to let me know he knew about…
Talking, thinking, practicing: how to focus on emotional intelligence
Social and emotional intelligence skills are critical to success at work. And life. Some folks have an abundance of emotional intelligence. But what about the rest of us?
Empathy and good design
IDEO is a world leader in product design. The founder David Kelley tells us why empathy is so important to good design…
EQ Interview Questions
Here are a few thoughts on some interview questions that fold in the fifteen emotional quotient competencies of the BarOn model of EQ …
Art of Leadership conference and more
We’re excited to be going to the Art of Leadership Conference and we have lots of news …Emotional intelligence and leader performance: Innovation
Last week David Cory hosted a webinar on leadership performance, emotional intelligence, and innovation. The recording from this webinar is below, as are the slides…Empathy, show notes, episode 8
Join David and Kim for a thirty minute conversation on Empathy. Empathy is the second competency in the Interpersonal composite…
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: