| Assess Your EQ Strengths - Free! |
 Participate in a new research study -- the first 1000 people who respond have the opportunity to take the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment and get their EQ Strengths Report for free.
 Use this URL, username, and password:
URL: www.6seconds.it/assessment
User: WORLDWIDE
Pass: RESEARCH
Feel free to share this offer with your network -- we want people from all over the globe!
This link will expire when we reach the target sample size - or at the end of September 2009.
The study explores the relationship between emotional intelligence and life outcomes in different regions of the world. Participants will take the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (version 3.0 beta), a statistically validated online measure of emotional intelligence competencies critical for professional and personal success. The 3.0 edition builds on the statistical reliablity of the previous version to test refinements to the the tool, and for this study includes an expanded questionnaire on various aspects of success (e.g., career, family, decision-making, health).
The SEI offers many different reports -- the Strengths Report provides a snapshot of the respondent's top three emotional intelligence competencies and how to leverage these to get even better results.
[ Posted 09/08/09 - Read More ]
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| Smart Parenting (Aquarius Magazine, Dubai) |
 August 2009 Screaming toddlers and moody teenagers have something in common -- they are both emotionally charged. Louisa Wilkins speaks to the experts about how to handle your children in an emotionally intelligent way to ensure positive results.
[ Posted 08/18/09 - Read More ]
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| Optimizing Manufacturing Reengineering with Emotional Intelligence |
 CIBA Specialty Chemical is engaged in a major change initiative -- and using emotional intelligence to accelerate the process. The commitment to EQ assisted the CIBA team to achieve important business goals -- for example, over two years, productivity increased by 18% while simultaneously reducing complaints by 73%.
[ Posted 06/03/09 - Read More ]
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| What Are Emotions? |
 Feelings are a dominant force in learning, they are powerful and meaningful. But what are they? What happens inside us when our "feelings are hurt" or when we are ready to "jump for joy"? At workshops, Six Seconds' trainers often post a list of six to eight core emotions, and participants frequently ask why those particular emotions are the "core" emotions. Are the other feelings less "real"? Is there some secret code only EQ-ologists know?
Interviews with EQ experts, including John (Jack) Mayer, Eric Jensen, Candace Pert, Anabel Jensen, Maurice Elias, John Steinberg, and J-P Dupreez offer new perspectives.
by Joshua Freedman (first published in EQ Today, June, 2000)
[ Posted 04/18/09 - Read More ]
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| Choosing Optimism: An Interview with Martin EP Seligman, Ph.D. |
 What is optimism? Can it be learned? How? Martin Seligman is one of the preeminent experts on optimism and a founder of positive psychology. This interview, from November 10, 1999, explores many of the key ingredients for creating a happy, fulfilled life and introduces the concept of positive psychology. Seligman spoke at the first NexusEQ Conference in May, 2000 and the third conference in 2002. by Joshua Freedman
[ Posted 04/18/09 - Read More ]
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| Expression Journals - Developing Emotional Intelligence |
 by Marsha Rideout
Journals in the classroom for affective expression are not unfamiliar. However, their systematically guided use in a social-emotional learning program can dramatically increase their value as a tool for developing self-awareness and personal accountability.
Note: We recommend inexpensive "all white" blank journals, like those from Bare Books (414) 884-0501.
[ Posted 04/18/09 - Read More ]
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| Noble Goals: Putting Emotional Intelligence to Work in Daily Life |
| A noble goal is a lifeline mission that leads you onward to fulfill your greatest human potential. Karen Stone McCown, author of Self-Science and Chairman of Six Seconds, has set "to support myself and others to become human beings" as her noble goal. Clearly Self-Science is one of the results of that commitment. To illustrate this concept, make two lists titled "human having" and "human being." With a partner or group, list words for each. Below are some you might like to use. This distinction can be helpful in discussing affective goals.
[ Posted 04/18/09 - Read More ]
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| The Motivation Iceberg |
| This simple, clear model shows how different motivators drive different kinds of performance -- and helps managers, leaders, parents, educators -- anyone concerned with motivating others -- consider how to use their emotional intelligence to fuel lasting motivation. This model is presented in the "Motivation from the Inside Out" module in the Developing Human Performance curriculum (a series of 14 programs on leadership available for all development professionals).
[ Posted 03/17/09 - Read More ]
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| NEW! The Leader as a Mench now available |
| Bruna Martinuzzi's new book, The Leader as a Mensch: How to become the kind of person others want to follow, it now available from Six Seconds EQ Press. See www.6seconds.org/tools/mensch.php for details and ordering.
The book offers wonderful insight, advice, and inspiration for leaders and any who is committed to the notion that leaders should first be people worthy of followers -- people of integrity, character, compassion and wisdom.
[ Posted 02/26/09 - comments? ]
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| Taking Industrial Safety to the Next Level |
| Committed to continuously improving safety, a leading chemical manufacturer launched a new safety program. Where most efforts to improve industrial safety rely on procedures and regulation to drive change, this initiative was developed using the research and principles of Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Instead of more legislation, this program set out to inspire people to act – using emotions as the flames of inspiration
[ Posted 01/10/09 - Read More ]
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| Finding Peace Amidst Holiday Stress |
| Always fraught with tension, in recession families have heightened challenge maintaining holiday cheer. While it won't change the economy, a few simple emotional intelligence tips can help people create the peace they need this holiday season. In this article Six Seconds' COO and members of the network offer some help.
[ Posted 12/10/08 - Read More ]
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| Leaders Worth Following |
| In the current economic and political climate it's no surprise that people are stressed. They are increasingly worried about basic survival -- which leaves less and less bandwidth for organizational performance. Yet in times of challenge and change, some leaders emerge who calm the barking dogs of anxiety and draw forth our best. These are true leaders, leaders worth following. What does it take to be one?
[ Posted 10/29/08 - Read More ]
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| Presentations for October Conference |
 Please take a look at http://6seconds.org/c2c - you can now download the list of presentations. As you can see, this is an event where "real people" are sharing success stories of how emotional intelligence is helping to improve results in business, education, gov't and community orgs, healthcare, and for individuals.
"Choose to Change" peer-to-peer conference - Oct 3-4, 2008 - San Jose, CA
Registration & lodging info are also available on http://6seconds.org/c2c
See you there!
[ Posted 06/19/08 - Read More ]
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| Assent, Dissent, Descent |
Recently...
- I told Emma (8-year-old daughter) she needed to get dressed to go. Instant protest, heel-dragging, power struggle. Yet we were going to do something she wanted!
- I observed a new cross-functional team starting up. The person assigned to schedule the first meeting asserted, "Since no one else wants to, I will chair the team." People rolled eyes and crossed arms (mostly hidden!). Yet she was right -- no one else wanted to chair.
- I was presenting at company and I told participants to discuss their ideas from a worksheet with the person sitting next to them. A few evaluation forms were quite negative, some said that I was "making them share to much." Yet they all said they wanted to get closer as a team.
What's the common thread?
When people feel pushed, they defend.
[ Posted 03/30/08 - Read More ]
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| EQ on NBC's Today Show |
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 contents, 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.
[ Posted 03/26/08 - Read More ]
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| Emotional Intelligence Conference |
Choose to Change: Emotional Intelligence in Action
Oct 3-4, San Jose CA - Six Seconds' Peer:Peer Conference
Choose to Change is a "peer-to-peer" conference where "real people" dialogue to share what’s working in emotional intelligence implementation programs in business, education, and community. Presentations will come from leaders together with practitioners sharing a "case history" of their experience and results with EQ.
Get details on the conference and call for presentations.
[ Posted 03/03/08 - Read More ]
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| Forgiveness Overpowers Hate (from Urban Dreams) |
Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Resilience and Character is a compelling collection of essays written by students in an urban community in New Jersey. The essays are the encapsulated life stories of their authors, writers from urban elementary, middle, and high schools who were given a chance to reflect on their own lives and articulate their Laws of Life: strong values and principles that guide them in everyday decision and actions. Here is one of the essays.
Forgiveness Overpowers Hate
Anonymous, 11th grade
Most people live their lives based on hate that they have for others. They believe that the only way to survive is to hold up a wall of hate, not letting anyone in but themselves. A lot of people think that their law of life is hate. That is all they have ever learned. Personally, my law of life is “Forgiveness.” I think the only way to survive is to forgive. It is the key to happiness.
Many people took the time to learn how to forgive. I took the time to observe how they felt before they forgave someone and how they felt afterwards. My mother showed me that being a bigger person is being able to forgive. Throughout my mother's life she never practiced hatred. She showed love for anyone she thought needed it. She always told me “If you see someone who feels nothing but hate, pray for them. And hope that one day some kind of happiness comes into their lives.” She thought that to hate someone is only to hate yourself. So I'm trying to change my ways, so I can be at a better place, and be able to put my self in a better surroundings.
[ Posted 01/17/08 - Read More ]
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| Emotional WHAT? Definitions and History of EQ |
Is it really an intelligence? How do we know, and what is an intelligence anyway?
Touted as the key to educational and corporate success, is EQ really just another “flavor of the month”?
There are half a million web pages on “emotional intelligence,” and everyone wants to claim the “right” definition -- so how many definitions do we need?
While you could read all 486,000 web pages, EQ Today asked the world’s top experts and researchers to explain emotional intelligence. The conclusion: There is an intelligence based on emotion, and people who have this capacity are less depressed, healthier, more employable, stronger leaders, better decision-makers, and have better relationships.
[ Posted 01/09/08 - Read More ]
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