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Is Your Motivation Hiding? Shine a Light on It
What really fuels motivation? Recent neuroscience offers a suprising formula for fueling performance from the inside ou
Six Seconds 2025 Impact Report: Global reach, measurable outcomes and a growing movement for emotional intelligence
Six Second is the global nonprofit working to increase the world’s emotional intelligence. Here’s what we created together in 2025
Leading Change in Times of Uncertainty: Why Managing Transitions Matters More Than Strategy
Leading change in times of uncertainty requires more than strategy. Learn why emotional transitions, trust, and purpose drive sustainable change.
The Holidays Can Be Something We Make, Not Something We Survive
Discover how emotional intelligence can ease holiday stress, reshape old patterns, and help you create traditions that feel meaningful, supportive, and truly yours.
Emotion AI: A Leader’s Guide to Use Emotional Intelligence for Effective AI Adoption and Change Management
AI adoption challenges are emotional before they’re technical. Learn how fear, curiosity, and emotional intelligence shape whether AI succeeds in your workplace.
Requesting Trust: 5 Practical Steps to Repair and Increase Trust
Want to increase trust with someone? Try this challenging-but-rewarding framework for requesting trust.
Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare: A Quick Check-In Guide to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Burnout
Discover how emotional intelligence can help healthcare professionals reduce burnout, strengthen teamwork, and improve patient care.
From Challenges to Change: 3 Life Lessons I Learned from Unlocking EQ
Discover how the Unlocking EQ course helped transform challenges into growth, connection, and purposeful living through three powerful life lessons.
Leading Your Team Through Change
When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.
No Rest for the Weary: Why Cultivating Rest Is an Art and a Science
From sleep to reflection, explore the 7 types of rest that restore balance, spark creativity, and boost wellbeing.
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.
What Are Emotions? Understanding the Science and Meaning Behind How We Feel
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.
