Emotional Ponderings: “Focus”
Last month I blogged about ‘renewal’ and Spring and doing things differently. This month I feel stuck in the decision to do things differently…
Cool Inspirational Poster of Marianne Williamson Quote
Here’s 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: you may well recognize it…
Don’t Let Emotions Run Your Life
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…
Website of the Month for March
I might have messed up the url for last month’s website of the month and so here it is again http://www.theexecutivecoachingforum.com/ This month’s pick is http://changingminds.org/explanations/emotions/emotions.htm which is actually a fraction of the huge site by an interesting guy named Dave Straker who reads and writes voraciously sharing everything on his website. Check it out,…
EQ coaching and renewal
March is the month of Spring and in Vancouver (the home I left yesterday morning) the rhubarb is up in our backyard and the trees are loaded with buds that are going to burst forth at any moment – can’t wait for those magnolia blossoms. This morning on CBC radio, in Calgary, brrrr, where there…
Music, emotion and a common human brain? Maybe.
This exhibition from the World Science Festival, from the panel on “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus” is a good example of leadership and raises interesting questions about the universality of human capacity and human experience…
February EQ Tool Share: stages of change
The EQ tool of the month is the EITC Stages of Change document which reviews the Stages of Change Model created by James Prochaska and his colleagues in the..
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
In his book, Robinson observes that emotional intelligence skill development takes a back seat to the ever more competitive drive for higher marks and academic excellence. He then goes on to develop a lucid …
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…
Stages of change and EQ coaching
I love the Stages of Change Model postulated by James Prochaska et al (if you’re unfamiliar with this model, check out the February EQ Toolshare of the Month) In fact, I think it’s one of the best arguments for coaching that exists. If people are going to change (as is the case with EQ development),…
January EQ Tool Share of the Month
The EQ tool of the month comes from MHS Inc. They have produced a great piece of marketing material that you can use in your marketing internally or …
January Book Review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Some of you will laugh, but I grabbed a title off my bookshelf that has been there for many years that I’ve always wanted to read and never had until now, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an enquiry into values” by Robert Pirsig. It was first published in 1974 and became quite the…
Technology, something and design: ted.com
My pick for website of the month is www.ted.com. I always mention ted.com in all my courses and am continually amazed at all the people who have not yet had the pleasure of viewing a “tedtalk.” TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing…
Emotional Intelligence and Scuba Diving: Self Motivation
Jill and I were fortunate enough to spend a glorious week in Puerto Vallarta the week before Christmas. I think we’ve started a new Christmas tradition.;-) I had the opportunity to go scuba diving and really enjoyed it. I don’t know if you’ve ever been scuba diving, but it’s quite a unique experience to actually…
The EITC 2011 brochure (certification courses) is here
We’re offering many EQ-i® and EQ-360® certification courses for 2011 – download our brochure here…
