Articles by The Emotional Intelligence Training Company

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Announcing EITC emotion cards!

David Cory
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Accelerating DEI in the workplace? You will need emotional intelligence skills

Eric Kasoyaga
Screenshot of David Cory presenting with his slide deck on the ROI of emotional intelligence

Webinar recap: ROI for emotional intelligence

Find out from David Cory about the ROI from emotional intelligence training and development.

ByEric KasoyagaNov 29, 20231 min read
Three office workers sit around a desk talking about work and interpersonal dynamics with a large weird tree and hand float in the background.

How to keep momentum after an emotional intelligence team training

Sherwin Arnott & Kim Cairns
EITC presenter.

Updates, emotional intelligence on purpose, and our alumni community connection

David Cory
Kevork Guerguerian is a Change Leader in healthcare settings.

Kevork Guerguerian, EQ change leader, tells us about the power of coaching and optimism

EITC team
Change Leader, Bindi Doshi Tatla.

Change Leader Bindi Doshi Tatla speaks with us about leadership development and emotional intelligence

EITC team
Three office workers sit around a desk talking about work and interpersonal dynamics with a large weird tree and hand float in the background.

How to keep momentum after an emotional intelligence team training

Sherwin Arnott & Kim Cairns
EITC presenter.

Updates, emotional intelligence on purpose, and our alumni community connection

David Cory
Kevork Guerguerian is a Change Leader in healthcare settings.

Kevork Guerguerian, EQ change leader, tells us about the power of coaching and optimism

EITC team
Change Leader, Bindi Doshi Tatla.

Change Leader Bindi Doshi Tatla speaks with us about leadership development and emotional intelligence

EITC team
Practicing silence in coaching and leadership
Coaching

Practicing silence in coaching and leadership

Problem solving is the enemy of empathy

Problem solving is the enemy of empathy

No guts, no glory: the evolution of the workplace

No guts, no glory: the evolution of the workplace

Courage, leadership, and your emotional intelligence

Courage, leadership, and your emotional intelligence

Finding focus in the midst of complexity

ByDavid Cory & Rebecca Cory
Long Beach at Tofino: a wide expanse of beach and ocean with footprints going towards the water

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…

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Unconscious bias, emotional intelligence and leadership

ByDavid Cory
A guy in a suit runs from a tiny chicken, and the shadow of a giant predator.

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…

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Five ways emotional intelligence can help you get your next job

ByDavid Cory
Managers mingle at a conference during a networking session in Vancouver.

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…

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Reality testing and learning to change our opinions

BySherwin Arnott
Brain scans of the same brain across 12 different scans showing different areas lighting up in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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…

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Fully formed and fully functioning is a fiction

BySherwin Arnott & Kim Cairns
A team of dancers in the middle of their choreography with a single dancer flying out of the mass of bodies.

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…

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Dr. Nina Ahuja and David Cory talk stress management and other EI competencies in the context of practicing medicine and Nina's new book.

Emotional intelligence in the medical world: An interview with Dr. Nina Ahuja

Books
Dr. Ahuja is an eye surgeon based in Hamilton, Ontario. Having gotten her medical degree from McMaster University, she is currently the McMaster Ophthalmology Division Head. She is also an EQ-i 2.0® Certified Practitioner. Her book, Stress in Medicine, speaks about the unique stresses that physicians face in their line of work.
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What I Learned at Harvard

Emotional Intelligence
What I learned at Harvard is that there is a large group of very committed people working at changing the world. Some of the Key Note speakers talked about changing the world through negotiation (Daniel Shapiro), through the study of neuroscience (Marco Iacoboni and Mary Helen Immordiano-Yang), through changes to public education (Tony Wagner), leadership…
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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:

  1. ROI and Emotional Intelligence (PDF)
  2. Leadership and emotional intelligence: driving ROI and performance (PDF)