Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding Your Emotional Needs
When you’re facing an internal conflict, emotions can become confusing. Here’s how to “look beneath the surface” to discover the needs hiding behind your feelings.
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Navigate Emotions is one of the core competencies in the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence. It’s the ability to assess, harness, and transform emotions as a strategic resource.
Grappling with Challenging Emotions as a Manager: 18 Effective Emotional Intelligence Strategies
On average, you and every person you interact with is experiencing more distress than you did just a few years ago. The heightened level of struggle presents a profound leadership challenge – here’s how to use emotional intelligence to handle difficult emotions, starting with your own.
Read MoreResilience in Recessionary Times: Emotional Intelligence Strategies to Stay Grounded in Escalating Challenge
When “our emotional buckets are running low,” we need to both stop the leaks AND refill our buckets. Here’s how to use emotional intelligence to build resilience, even when it feels extra-difficult to do so.
Read MoreHow to Control Emotions Without Shutting Them Down: A 3-Step Process That Actually Works, and the Neuroscience Behind the Technique
How can you control your emotions without shutting them down? The answer is Navigating Emotions. Discover a science-backed 3-step VET method to manage emotions with emotional intelligence, reduce reactivity, and build resilience. Based on neuroscience and the Adaptive Theory of Emotions.
Read MoreHarnessing Emotional Intelligence: How Sara Canna Supports Employees and Transforms People’s Lives at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Emotional intelligence is more than just a buzzword—it’s a transformative tool that can reshape how we navigate challenges, build relationships, and thrive in demanding environments. Discover how Sara Canna brought EQ to the World Health Organization, empowering employees to manage change, stress, and personal growth.
Read MoreWant to Manage Your Emotions More Effectively? Find Time to Journal About Challenging Experiences
Daily journaling to reframe unpleasant events can significantly reduce depressive symptoms, lessen stress, and increase life satisfaction.
Read MoreCoaching Through the Emotional Recession: Three Practical Tips for Trauma-Informed Coaching
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in March 2021, “When there is mass trauma, it affects communities for many years to come.” While coaching isn’t a “treatment” for trauma, in the Emotional Recession we’re facing now, chances are, your clients, colleagues, and you are carrying more trauma than 4 years ago. What do we do as coaches?
Read MoreKnowing Isn’t Coaching: Three Emotional Intelligence Tools for Professional Coaches
Here’s how to use emotional intelligence to break out of a fixed mindset of “knowing the answer” and make your own (difficult) emotions an ally as a coach.
Read MoreCoaching Down the Escalator: 3 Emotional Intelligence Tips for Coaches to Reduce Volatility & De-escalate Conflict in a Polarized World
As people become more volatile around us, our brains’ natural response is to also become more reactive. Coaching provides a perfect opportunity to step out of this cycle of escalation, but it’s a difficult emotional puzzle; here’s a map of the process with three emotional intelligence tips for coaches.
Read MoreWhen Change Fails: Tips for Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
Sometimes change is easy, but when we get stuck, big, difficult feelings emerge. While some coaches are ill-equipped to engage those challenging feelings, it’s a prime opportunity for transformational coaching.
Read MoreNavigate Emotions in the Six Seconds Model of EQ
Managing emotions could be helpful… but that implies stuffing them away. How can we HARNESS the wisdom and power of feelings to help us move?
Read More12 Practical Tips for Emotional Wellbeing by Being Smarter with Feelings
Are you fighting against your own feelings? There’s a better way to handle emotions to support wellbeing — 12 easy ways to practice emotional intelligence
Read MoreWhen You Don’t Click with Your Coworker
What can you do? Emotional intelligence tips to build bridges and collaborate better even when it’s challenging.
Read MoreName It to Tame It: How Naming Your Emotions (“Affect Labeling”) Lowers Stress and Builds Emotional Intelligence
Learn how naming emotions (“affect labeling”) lowers stress, boosts decision-making, and builds confidence—plus simple practices you can use today. Backed by neuroscience and EQ research.
Read MoreWhat Are Biodots and How Do You Use Them?
Biodots are a low-cost, easy way to help your clients become more self-aware – here’s how to use them.
Read MoreCelebrating Feelings: Emotions for Thriving
In two inspiring, interactive, authentic conversations, we’ll get to the essential basic for mental wellbeing: Talking about feelings.
Read MoreHow to Fire Someone with Emotional Intelligence
Firing someone is emotionally challenging. It’s easily one of the hardest aspects of leadership. Here are practical emotional intelligence tips to do it with compassion, clarity and calm.
Read MoreYale’s Marc Brackett Shares Personal Healing Story
Marc Brackett says the process started by liberating himself from judging his own emotions, giving himself permission to feel.
Read MoreIlluminate: Feeling Stuck Try This 3-Step Technique
This week, we’ll dive in + explore a practical technique for navigating feelings that just seem to linger.
Read MoreEmo-Shines: What Can Visible Emotions Can Teach Us
What if every subtle turn of our emotions were immediately obvious to us? And – just for fun – I pondered: What would happen if emotions were also visible to everyone else?
Read More“What’s Important Here?” Anxiety’s Valuable Message
In some cases, reframing anxiety as excitement works. But in others, your anxiety is telling you something valuable, and it’s better to just listen.
Read MoreIlluminate: Navigating Anger toward Wisdom
Dive into a beautiful (and true!) story about the power of navigating emotions– and learn how you can transform anger/sadness/grief/confusion into wisdom about yourself and your life’s path.
Read MoreHello Anxiety: 3 EQ Tips to Navigate Worry
Anxiety is a pervasive challenge; learning more about EQ helps to wrangle it back into the background.
Read MoreYour Limiting Belief Demystified
It’s prickly, but it’s worth it. Learn more about your own limiting belief + tools for working through it, all thanks to the person who most annoys you. Take this moment to learn compassion- for yourself and for them.
Read More7 Tips + Resources to Build Emotional Intelligence
From a chart that deciphers the meaning of dozens of feelings to a video that will change your understanding of empathy, here are 10 free tips + resources to cultivate emotional intelligence.
Read MoreHow to Practice Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Choice (updated for 2018)
Want to know how to practice emotional intelligence? Here are 10 expert tips from our worldwide network to choose yourself more effectively.
Read MoreFour Steps to A More Intentional Life
A life coach shares her approach to practicing a life full of vision, meaning, and treasure hunts.
Read MoreOut of the Darkness: 3 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Emotions
How do we deal with difficult emotions in an emotionally intelligent way? Doing so is essential for your overall wellbeing.
Read More2 Simple Steps to Overcome Anxiety with EQ
Read MoreHow Do I Control Emotions Better?
It’s one of the most frequent questions in emotional intelligence workshops worldwide. How can I get better at controlling my feelings? The language of this question reveals a bias that there are bad emotions requiring control – which means exerting power to subdue. Here’s a simply radical shift in perspective: How can I get better at harnessing […]
Read MoreStressed for Good: Surprising New Science about Stress
Stress kills… or does it? In the light of new neuroscience, maybe it’s time rethink stress – which might just save your life.
Read MoreFight or Flow Part I: “Hit Back First”
Why do we react – explode – shut down… and how can we use insights from current neuroscience to be less reactive?
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