Award for EITC
Multi-Health Systems Inc. recently honoured, our company, The Emotional Intelligence Training Company Inc. with an award…
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New sample reports (EQ-i and EQ 360)
As you know, each month I share a document which I believe will be useful to you in your pursuit of service quality. This month is no different, except that the EQ tool for May is a sample of the new EQ-i 2.0. You can download this file and see how this wonderful new model and…
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Book review: Discipline Without Distress
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…
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Website(s) of the Month
This month we have websiteS 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…
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Emotional ponderings
I find it fascinating, “how fascinating!”, that one can be in “one of those moods” and not realize it…
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New Course: EQ for Personal Leadership
Research shows that Emotional Intelligence is a strong predictor of workplace performance. Emotional Intelligence skills are also highly correlated with success in life – that is making your life what you want it to be, including improved communication and relationships.
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EITC EQ Toolshare of the Month
The EQ tool for April that I would like to share with you is a wonderful tool for looking at the self-limiting beliefs we hold onto. Looking at beliefs is a critical part of emotional intelligence and fits with the EQ competency of emotional self-awareness. It’s called the 12 Irrational Beliefs created by Albert Ellis,…
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Give Me A Break: the art of making time work for you
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,…
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EITC Website of the Month: We Feel Fine
You are going to love the EITC website of the month for April. I heard Jonathon Harris on ted.com and was extremely impressed with him and his project, “We Feel Fine.” When you go to wefeelfine.org, you will see bunch of coloured dots moving around the screen. Each dot represents a human emotion of someone…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
