Excerpt: While many leaders possess the technical skills to succeed, exceptional leaders have a secret ingredient that inspires businesses to world-class performance: Emotional Quotient (EQ). EQ is the ability to integrate thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions and is the foundation of high performing relationships. Businesses lose customers when they fail to form strong [...]
Marilynn Jorgensen, one of Six Seconds’ Senior Consultants, interviewed about the role of emotional intelligence in business by Greg Fairlie on “Inside Business” City 7, Dubai. Part 1: Part 2:
Six Seconds’ COO, Joshua Freedman, appeared on NBC’s Today Show to discuss how emotional intelligence helps relationships (clip below). The segment’s focus is “keeping emotions in check,” which Freedman says is just the start. “People often ask how to ‘control’ emotions, which illustrates a critical issue in our thinking about feelings,” Freedman says this paradigm [...]
Researchers found that healthcare professional high in emotional intelligence are far more effective in a number of key performance areas including stress management, showing that these skills are critical for healthcare professionals – and especially those in leadership positions.
How do you really feel? And what does it mean? Our new "emotoscope" helps you scope out and understand your feelings. Why? One of the first competencies of emotional intelligence is emotional literacy: the ability to identify and understand feelings. This opens the doorway to using them intelligently. The Emotoscope is completely free @ 6seconds.org/feel [...]
In Training & Development – February 2008 (download article in PDF) Two excerpts: A decade ago any talk of emotional intelligence would draw strange looks. Now many organizations include it among core competencies required for high performers. Where emotions were once dismissed as raw and inappropriate in the office, they are now utilized as data [...]
Six Seconds, emotional intelligence, and social-emotional learning is a feature story in the January issue of O Magazine – The New & Improved Self-Esteem (p 162) (download a PDF) Two excerpts: “The shift in thinking by researchers like Dweck and Baumeister dovetails with a revolutionary educational philosophy called social and emotional learning, or SEL, which [...]
Practicing Emotional Intelligence During the Holidays Bob Bates on Mon, 11/12/2007 – 12:12pm. The holidays are upon us. Yikes. I’ve barely just taken off my Halloween costume. As I was thinking about what I might write about for this weeks article, I ran across an article written by a colleague and friend, Josh Freedman. Josh [...]
Interview on The Leader’s Playbook Today’s guest is Joshua Freedman the author of At the Heart of Leadership, and an expert in Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Change. He is the COO and one of the founders of Six Seconds, one of the oldest and leading EI programs in the world. Joshua is a master EI [...]
in her wonderful Thriving blog, Tessy Britton writes: Josh Freedman has finally written THE book. After over a decade of teaching hundreds of professionals in education and business how to practically develop their emotional intelligence Josh has written a guide that is now available to everyone. http://thrivingitsallgood.blogspot.com/2007/08/at-heart-of-everything.html Thank you Thriving!!