Your feelings travel in packs. Learn how the Emotion Constellation model reveals the hidden connections between feelings — and the deeper needs they share.
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Leading change in times of uncertainty requires more than strategy. Learn why emotional transitions, trust, and purpose drive sustainable change.
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AI adoption challenges are emotional before they’re technical. Learn how fear, curiosity, and emotional intelligence shape whether AI succeeds in your workplace.
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Want to increase trust with someone? Try this challenging-but-rewarding framework for requesting trust.
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When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.
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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.
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Emotions are messages from your body and brain. Learn what emotions are, why we feel them, and how emotional intelligence helps us use them wisely.
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Want more clarity about how much you trust someone? Try these 3 techniques for assessing trust in a relationship.
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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.
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The emotional recession is making every interaction harder. Discover five EQ strategies to rebuild resilience, trust, and connection at work and beyond.
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Transform how you coach self awareness with this social approach that helps clients move beyond binary thinking. Includes practical 3-step framework, case study, and coaching tools for handling 360 feedback resistance.
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Want to “win” the argument? Negotiate conflict effectively by adding emotional intelligence in this simple 4-step process: Get REAL solutions!
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What makes motivation… motivating? Three powerful questions, a free worksheet, and powerful ways to strengthen energy from within (which we all need, especially when work/life feels challenging)
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What are the links between emotional intelligence and leadership performance? New research shows 66% of the variation in scores on leadership outcomes are predicted by five key leadership drivers – and people with higher emotional intelligence are seven times as likely to earn high scores on these factors.
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How do you use emotional intelligence to fuel lasting motivation? The Motivation Iceberg is a simple, clear model for understanding how to motivate – even in WFH during a pandemic.
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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.
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Learn how to build optimism as a skill using a simple 3-bridge model. Backed by new research, this article shows why optimism is essential for resilience, innovation, and emotional wellbeing in today’s uncertain world.
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What if all our feelings had value? Many people see emotions as “good” or “bad” — which leaves us in a constant state of internal struggle against our own feelings. Here’s a framework to rethink feelings as valuable signals about what’s important.
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What is emotional intelligence and how do you practice it? Explore the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence to improve your life and relationships.
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Research: How do people start learning emotional intelligence… and what happens? The Theory of Change creates a framework for transformation fuelled by authentic, purposeful connection.
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We tested top GenAI models’ emotional intelligence—what we found reveals insights that every leader needs to know and will change the way you lead in an AI-powered world.
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As a manager, the coach-approach isn’t always the right path. How do you decide when to use a coaching style, or something else in your one-to-one?
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Goal setting is central to coaching – but most coaches rush this process and take the surface answer as if it’s the client’s real goal. Here’s how emotions help get to the deeper goals.
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Can coaching tools help you lead successful organizational change? Here’s how to build team ownership and drive better outcomes by applying emotional intelligence for a coaching mindset.
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When is less, more? Inspired by a stunning experience earlier this year at Six Seconds’ Emotional Intelligence Master Coach Certification, here’s how to “Marie Kondo” coaching to distill down to the essence.
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How do emotional intelligence and coaching go together to create a framework for transformation? Examining ‘what is coaching,’ why clients seek coaching, and ‘what is emotional intelligence,’ a story emerges about how we meet the moment more effectively.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Daniel Goleman explains the history of emotional intelligence – and why EQ is important in business, education & life.
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How bad is uncertainty for you, for your clients, for the world? Uncertainty is a problematic feeling – yet it’s also essential in coaching because it signals learning and growth. Here’s how.
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Solving the climate crisis requires people to connect, collaborate, innovate, and take inspired action — all of which are driven by emotion. Here’s how two of the world’s largest organizations in renewable energy worked with Six Seconds to harness emotions and support young leaders.
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Why do we sometimes take risks to learn, but other times we’re so determined to stay “right”? Zooming into the neurobiology, in a sense we have a tug-of-war between the striatum and the amygdala, between opportunity and risk. It’s just like trying Chai for the first time on the steamy streets of Kuala Lumpur.
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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.
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Why do New Year’s resolutions nearly always fail? And what can we do to make them stick? Explore the neuroscience of change and motivation.
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Drawing on neuroscience of change, how can we use emotional intelligence coaching for setting goals in a way that will help make change happen better? Please a fantastic goalsetting tool (that’s free for now!)
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How does your own awareness affect your clients’ awareness? We’ll dive into ICF competency #7, but focusing on honing our intuition as coaches.
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Bad news: Globally, sense of purpose is declining. Good news: Using emotional intelligence in coaching, we can magnify and brighten the glimmers of purpose
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When a coaching client says, ‘I have to change’ it raises a crucial question: Who’s driving the change process? Here’s a new way of using the Prochaska & DiClemente Stages of Change model and coaching strategies to make change more effective.
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The brutal fact: People are disengaging because companies are failing their people. How can companies do better?
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