Six Seconds’ network member Lea Brovedani just released a new video showing her skills as a keynote speaker. Lea is a longtime member of the network who has hosted Six Seconds EQ Certification programs, produced a NexusEQ conference, and joined the Advanced Practitioner program. This engaging segment also illustrates Six Seconds’ four Cs of trust model – are you ready to jump?
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.
Well I had an absolute blast appearing on the Today Show. It was literally a circus there (the circus was on the show before me…) and the energy was amazing.
The five minute discussion went by so fast. When I got off set, I actually had no idea what I’d said, it was such a blur! Fortunately I could watch online, here’s the clip from MSNBC.
So after watching and finding out what I said… I’m pretty thrilled with it. This was my first live TV appearance, and first time on National TV, so I was pretty anxious… especially right before, standing on the set watching the process.
These folks do FOUR hours of live TV every morning! I was amazed at the level of focus the team showed – for example, before our segment on emotions, Natalie Morales was reading latest news, while crew was rapidly moving to set up our piece… and she was just in the zone reading as the text flowed by (I was watching the teleprompter and imagining trying to read it!)
I now have about eight more key ideas I’d really like to add… such as using appreciation as a transformational tool for shifting out of those AHHHH moments. I used it there – as I was starting to get anxious I thought about what a great gift it is to get to do this work – and to talk about something so valuable to so many people.
Next time I’d like to post a web article with some of the practical strategies we teach plus links to additional articles and resources. So here’s a mini-story on 6seconds.org about the piece, with some additional thoughts: All About Emotional Intelligence from Six Seconds – EQ on NBC’s Today Show
All in all – I’m looking forward to the next time!!
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 leads people to a perpetual stuggle with themselves. “Instead, if we start valuing feelings as a wonderous source of insight and energy (rather than something nasty to control in a cage), we can have a healthy relationship with our own feelings.” This is a starting point, Freedman contends, to a profound level of self-mastery.
Then rather than fighting for superficial “control” of something distracting or overwhelming, emotions become invaluable allies. For more on this topic, see Freedman’s article “Fight or Flow.” Then take the SEI assessment for a benchmark of how you are using these key competencies.
