Culture is grown not built
High performing teams are guided, mentored, and yes, coached.
Coaching with emotional intelligence
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 we’ve found for people to do serious emotional intelligence skills development.
Augment your coaching practice with emotional intelligence and EQ-i 2.0 certification
Coaching clients can use the in-depth results to cultivate their emotional self-awareness, build their capacity to adapt to new realities, be courageous team players, and become transformational leaders.
Grappling with connectedness and the mythology of independence
This might be a wake up call to all that we have taken for granted – the choices, the freedom of movement, our insatiable consumerism, our access to healthcare, resources, services and supports, our friends, family, and communities, our ability to work and play as we wish.
Jamelle Lindo, people-centred leadership, and emotional intelligence
EITC Change Leaders: celebrating EITC alumni, colleagues, and leaders who are championing leadership in their professional lives and promoting emotional intelligence in the world. December 2019 Change Leader: Jamelle Lindo is a coach, trainer and speaker with over a decade of professional experience in learning and development as well as leadership, and he’s certified to…
Practicing silence in coaching and leadership
In leadership roles, whether with individuals or groups, cultivating silence cultivates a coach approach. Coaching is one of four dimensions of leadership in the emotional intelligence leadership model we use…
Problem solving is the enemy of empathy
Our desire to problem solve might come from empathy, but it doesn’t express empathy. We struggle to see someone we love and care about in pain…
Practice your EQ-i 2.0 debrief skills with other EITC alumni
If you’re new to EQ Certification, or want to deepen your skill in administering EQ-i 2.0 assessments, we have a great new free alumni program for you. EITC Peer Debrief Program Whenever we learn a new skill, it takes time, practice and commitment to build that skill, to develop confidence, clarity and real depth in…
Carving out time for myself to write has been really important
Writing has always been a powerful form of expression for me. I’ve found surprising wisdom in my own writing. I’ve also learned so much from reading the writing of others. I’ve found that most writing, whether I can directly relate to it or not, prompts me to…
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…
Meet Caroline Stokes
In which David Cory sits down with Caroline Stokes, the founder of FORWARD, to talk about headhunting, coaching and the EQ-i 2.0…
Meet Mike Walters, leadership coach
In which Mike tells us a little about himself, coaching, developing EI, and the power of having a team that truly works and pulls together…
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 learning scenario. The backwards bicycle is just a regular bike, but the handle bar has…
The power of emotions
Is it possible that we deflect pain as a survival tactic and that later this baggage causes us great difficulty …
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 …