Negotiating with emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence skills can make a critical difference in our negotiations.
Emotional Intelligence
The science of people skills: Measuring emotional intelligence
Since humans are social and emotional beings, effective human interactions require emotional skills. This explains why the performance of organizations is deeply connected to the emotional intelligence skills of their team members.
Emotionally intelligent alternative to New Year’s resolutions
They help keep us on track. Realistically, not everything we do fits with our values, however, we make allowances for less valuable activities or decisions as we ultimately see that they are somehow part of an overall value of ours…
“My boss has no emotional intelligence”
For some, the term “emotional intelligence” is pesky. It has that word “emotional” in it and being emotional has a bad reputation in our society – let alone in business. However, some of the most effective organizations on the planet …
Five ways emotional intelligence can help you get your next job
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…
Reality testing and learning to change our opinions
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 grapple deeply with this, consider this funny thing about humans…
Know. Engage. Lead.
Our team recently enjoyed a dynamic three day planning session, which included some new team members! We wanted to come up with some key ideas that would animate everything we do …
Gratitude: optimism in action
I’ve been thinking about gratitude, weekends with family, having so much, and how this relates to emotional intelligence …
Consent, new email laws and doing business
We have new (not that new) anti-spam laws in Canada, and it reminds me of how important consent is …
The Botswana EQ Project
One of the most difficult and subtle issues associated with working on a project in some other part of the world is ensuring that you do not try to make their culture more like your own…
A radio interview with David Cory, from the archive
Here’s an interview with Kaj Gyr with Radio Nelson. David Cory gets a chance to talk about emotions, the difference between emotional intelligence and emotional …
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…
What I Learned at Harvard
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…
Daniel Goleman at TED in 2007
This lecture that Goleman gave at TED is an interesting reflection on compassion, connection and the role of information in caring…
Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes
Do you ever feel like Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day when he walks around the corner morning after morning only to step in the same…