Healthy self-regard in effective leaders
Healthy self-regard is an essential quality in leaders. But balance is needed to avoid thinking too highly of yourself. Here’s a few ideas…
One of the biggest problems in workplace performance: lack of awareness of impact
Ever noticed that most workplace issues stem from someone’s lack of awareness of their impact on others? The key is to understand impact, not intention…
Emotional intelligence and gender based violence
It’s critical that we include the idea of gender bias in our discussions of emotional intelligence. We need to understand how our socialization affects how we …
Leadership (and Emotional Intelligence) Video
This video caught my attention because it has so many good things to say about leadership. It’s an excellent example of how EQ competencies are required…
Daniel Goleman at Google
This 50 minute presentation by Goleman is of interest because he does a good job laying out the difference between threshold capacities and distinguishing capacities. IQ-like competencies are threshold capacities – that is, people need to meet a basic threshold of IQ to even get in the game. But EQ is a distinguishing capacity in so far as someone’s emotional and social intelligence is directly
