Why curiosity is a power skill
Around here we have a curious habit. We have a curiosity habit.
Articles by the EITC team members about a range of topics related to emotional intelligence including work, performance, relationships, cognitive development, and leadership.
Around here we have a curious habit. We have a curiosity habit.
Emotional intelligence skills can make a critical difference in our negotiations.
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.
This is a webinar recording from January of 2022 on the top ten relationship mistakes leaders make.
The excitement of new EI skills can sometimes slip away as everyone starts to respond to the 150 emails that accrued. It’s hard to make a culture shift.
The pandemic has required us to have a hyper-focus on the safety of ourselves, our families and our communities. At the same time, we have witnessed enormous and painful social upheaval and human suffering on a global scale.
We’ve discovered the joy of having a larger number of international participants in our trainings. People from different walks of life, and different time zones, help us think broadly about the myriad contexts in which emotional intelligence skills play a critical role.
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.
Yes, these are incredibly unstable times and the impacts are being felt by everyone worldwide. Collectively, we are now thinking about the most vulnerable, the people on the margins, the ones most susceptible to contracting and being deeply impacted by the COVID-19 virus. We think of our parents and friends in seniors living centres, and…
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…
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…
One of the biggest changes in the workplace over the last several decades is the transition from what has been called the ‘Dominance Paradigm’ where managers dominate their employees to the ‘Partnership Paradigm’ in which managers partner with their employees (see Eisler, 2007)…
Courage is not just about superheroes; it is personal and is found in everyday interactions and situations. It is the willingness to face agony, pain, intimidation or uncertainty, even when we are reluctant or fearful. And it’s essential to leadership.
It continues to amaze me how some employees treat the very people who will be writing their reference letters. Who’s writing your reference letter or who is going to provide a reference for you and what are they going to say about you? What do you want them…
We don’t make up these judgments. Dominant social discourses depict women as struggling with low self-esteem, imperfect bodies and flawed personalities. There are multi-billion dollar ‘beauty’ and self-help industries designed to ‘fix’…