CEO at Six Seconds
Joshua is a cofounder and ceo of the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network. He is a Master Certified Coach (ICF), and the second of his 5 books is the international best-seller, At the Heart of Leadership. He's passionate about the spark that ignites at intersection of compassion and purpose.
Latest posts by Joshua Freedman (see all)
- A 3-D Picture: The 3 Questions That Make Coaching Work - May 2, 2022
- The Algebra of Coaching 🌱 Through Challenge - April 6, 2022
- The Myth of Winning: 3 Steps to Stand Together as Allies - March 18, 2022
The Algebra of Coaching 🌱 Through Challenge
When people face emotional challenges, it’s… well… emotional. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by big feelings of fear & distress, and while sometimes psychological help is needed, most of the time some basic EQ coaching techniques make a big difference. Here’s how.
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The Myth of Winning: 3 Steps to Stand Together as Allies
Here’s why we make the boss, a colleague, a customer, spouses and lovers, and even our children into enemies — and a better way. It starts with our brains, and being addicted to the pleasure of righteousness.
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Virtual Coaching Presence | 3 Research-Based Tips for Authenticity
Coaching Presence is an essential part of the work, rooted in authenticity it builds trust — and it’s harder to make it work in virtual meetings. Here’s what to do.
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Structuring Transformational Learning
For you, is learning about collecting knowledge… or about using it to create change? Our learning programs are lifechanging because we work WITH the brain and structure learning to fuel growth – here’s how.
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Celebrating 25 Years Growing the World’s Emotional Intelligence
Since 1997, the Six Seconds community has served to increase the world’s emotional intelligence. How’s it going?
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Balancing Burnout to Embody Coaching | 🌱 EQ Coaching News
A wellbeing gift for you & your clients that’s central to your role of coach. This is at the heart of International Coaching Federation competency #2: Embodies a Coaching Mindset. In this Era of the Amygdala, balance is elusive, so I’d like to share two important tools for that
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Emotional Intelligence Gaps Across the Generations
Are the generations really that different? New data from the world’s largest study of emotional intelligence says yes… in concerning ways
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How Do You Want Your Students to Feel? Emotional Intelligence Tips for Teaching
Learning is both an emotional and rational process. How do we blend the two? Here is a map teachers and trainers can use to bring head and heart together in learning.
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Is It Possible to Change? 5 Tips from Emergent Strategy Where Climate Justice and Social Justice Meet
Facing vast challenges, it’s easy to lose optimism. Yet new research says it’s the key to change. How do we renew this resource? The combination of emotional intelligence and Emergent Strategy offers a path
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Active Listening as a Leader: 4 Ways to Use Emotional Intelligence To Listen Well
Exceptional leaders have mastered the art of deep, active listening. Here are 4 practical tips to use emotional intelligence to listen well.
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Head, Heart & Hands: What Makes Learning Work Best?
There’s a LOT to learn… but first: What is learning? How can the latest neuroscience help us understand how learning works best — for ourselves, at work, at school… in life!
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Leading a Hybrid Workforce: What Google, Microsoft & Spotify Can Teach Managers About Emotional Intelligence for The Future of Work
New research: The hybrid workplace is here. Do we have the emotional intelligence skills to make it work?
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Emotional Intelligence for Positive Mental Health with 50+ Actions to Feel & Be Better
It’s time to rethink mental health as a resource for thriving, and learn how emotional intelligence can help us create full vitality.
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Tips for Emotional Mastery: How to Fuel Wellbeing by Being Smarter with Feelings
How can we handle feelings more effectively? Here are the top 12 tips from emotional intelligence practitioners.
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21 EQ Resources for Emotional Wellbeing for COVID
In the storms of volatility fueled by COVID-19 news, both real and sensational, how do we maintain equilibrium? Collected resources on emotional intelligence to help.
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The Neuroscience of Change: How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick
Why do New Year’s resolutions nearly always fail? And what can we do to make them stick, and form new habits?
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3 Tips to Unleash Motivation – Even When Remote
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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Three gifts the antiracist uprising brought me
Emotions around race and racism are big and complex. And perhaps they’re an important message — an invitation from you, to you?
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The Future of Work (#30)
Companies are beginning to realize: We’re not “going back to normal” anytime soon… and employees are seeing that work from home has some benefits, but many costs. As leaders plan to develop the workforce for the future… what should employees be doing to be ready for the future?
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Learning & the Brain: Neuroscientist Immordino-Yang
At a neurological level, how does the brain actually learn, and what’s the role of emotion? What’s the implication for education and training?
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Daniel Goleman on The Neural Power of Leadership
Why do feelings matter to leaders? Interview with Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, on a new leadership imperative for optimizing human performance and the research that makes attention to feelings a bottom-line priority.
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I’m So Stressed! 4 Practical Tips to Deal with Stress
We face massive challenges in our world, and in our daily lives. The neuroscience of stress makes these harder to deal with — but also offers a way forward.
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Understanding and using fear to support change
Fear is the key to change. Here’s how to understand it, transform it — or more forward anyway.
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Integrated Emotions: Feelings Are Allies
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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Meeting the Emotions of the Pandemic: EQ Solutions
After 250 Grow U classes sharing emotional wellbeing with the world, we’re celebrating, sharing what works – and announcing the next steps
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IQ vs. EQ: Why it matters what we measure
The progress and problems that define the Digital Era are the logical conclusion of 100 years dedicated to cognitive intelligence. What would emerge from 100 years dedicated to emotional intelligence?
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EQ Training for Business: 15 Best Practice Tips
How do you use emotional intelligence training for business? Three key ingredients + 15 tips, based on interviews with dozens of business leaders.
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Three Essential Skills for High Performing Leaders
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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Workplace Vitality Research: Trends in Leadership
What are the key challenges people face at work? How are organizations building the capacity to address these challenges? We began the study in 2007 (originally called the Workplace Issues Report) to understand how leaders were perceiving the people-side of their work — and the role emotional intelligence place in performance.
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State of the Heart 2020 Research Participation
Join the 2020 State of the Heart research collecting additional data on emotional intelligence in the world — and get your UNLOCKING EQ profile free!
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Moment of Truth for Managers: Time to Change? (#15)
We are in a time of change – are managers ready? Join Jeff Kinsley – Managing Director International Learning and Development at FedEx; Princess Ayers-Stewart – Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at REI; and Joshua Freedman – the CEO of Six Seconds, in powerful conversation to rethink the role of the manager in today’s context.
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3 Key Questions on Climate Anxiety
Join this powerful conversation with an intergenerational, global panel of activists, researchers and educators at the intersection of emotions, climate change and youth.
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The Coronavirus Connection Challenge
Challenge – let’s counter “social distancing” by changing it to “physical distancing… together” & using this time for strengthening connections. Caring emotions are also contagious!
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Are We In a Battle Between People and A.I.?
Explore the defining dilemmas and dichotomies of the digital era, and how to apply emotional intelligence for a better future.
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Happy 80th Birthday Anabel!
Happy Birthday Anabel Jensen! Here are wishes from the Six Seconds community on your 80th birthday, and how we’re inspired by your work and commitment to EQ.
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Three Tools for Workplace Communication
Communication in the workplace is a constant challenge. Fortunately, research on emotions and the brain has helped clarify key communication tools.
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United Nations Emotional Intelligence Conference
Emotional intelligence steps onto the global stage at the United Nations’ first EQ conference. What happened there?
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Amadori Case: Engagement, EQ & Performance
In a three-year study of AMADORI, a supplier of McDonald’s in Europe, emotional intelligence, individual performance, organizational engagement, and organizational performance were assessed. Emotional intelligence was found to predict 47% of the variation in manager’s performance management scores. Emotional intelligence was also massively correlated with increased organizational engagement with 76% of the variation in engagement predicted by manager EQ. Finally, plants with higher organizational engagement achieved higher bottom-line results building a link between EQ->Engagement->Performance. During this period, employee turnover also dropped by 63%.
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Accountable Communication: 4 Questions to Ask
Make clear commitments without wiggle room and you will empower yourself and others.
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