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How Much Is Low Emotional Intelligence Costing Your Organization?
Low emotional intelligence ultimately results in lost productivity, higher turnover, and lower revenue. Here’s how to break the cycle.
Read MoreEQ Business
Leveraging Six Seconds’ unique insight to the people-side of performance, articles in this section support leaders to increase organizational effectiveness and create enduring value for all stakeholders.
Is Your Management Style Outdated? 4 Techniques to Manage Employee Emotions More Effectively
Managing employees is more complicated than ever. The increased emotional complexity requires emotional intelligence skills to navigate.
Read MoreHow Much of the $1.8T Are You Losing? 4 Steps to Increase Engagement and Reduce Turnover with Emotional Intelligence
Stop wasting money and learn how to leverage emotional intelligence for better results. Here’s a 4-step plan to get started.
Read MoreResearch: The Key Benefits of Mentorship at Work
Mentored employees are generally more productive, engaged, and satisfied with their jobs – and more likely to get promoted.
Read MoreNew Research: 4-Day Workweek Improves Employee Wellbeing and Company Revenue
Global pilot program correlated with dramatic improvements in employee’s mental and physical health – and company’s bottom line results.
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong with Empathy? EQ Coaching for Leadership
What does ‘strong leadership’ mean today? It turns out, (the right kind of) empathy & coaching are at the heart of how leaders ACTUALLY create impact.
Read MoreThe Motivation Iceberg: 3 Tips to Unleash Motivation
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.
Read More3 Surprising Elements Fueled Top Performing Teams During COVID-19 Pandemic
New research reveals key drivers of top teams globally. Learn the 3 elements and download the full report today.
Read MoreA 3-D Picture: The 3 Questions That Make Coaching Work
Wow! When coaching works, new possibilities flow, and clients feel an incredible sense of freedom and support. But even good coaches don’t always get that result, and usually it’s because they missed one of the 3 “must have” questions…
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: 4 Ways to Measure EQ for Performance
Actionable, growth-oriented assessments for leaders, teams and entire organizations.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Tips to Improve Virtual Meetings, Interviews and More
Do virtual meetings have to be boring and disconnected, and do interviews have to be nerve wracking? The answer to both is no, and emotional intelligence is the key. Here are practical tips to apply.
Read MorePlutchik’s Wheel of Emotions: Feelings Wheel
Make sense of emotions with this interactive feelings wheel. Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions explained – guide & free download
Read More3 Interview Tips for Women from an Executive Emotional Intelligence Coach
Research shows emotional intelligence is key for career advancement, especially for women. How can you tune up your emotional intelligence to shine in the next interview for your dream job?
Read MoreStructuring 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.
Read MoreDoes Hybrid Work Have to Be the Worst of Both Worlds?
Here are 3 tips for using empathy and emotional intelligence to create remote work policies that prioritize employees’ wellbeing.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: January 2022
Tips for managers to engage empathy, research on women at work and why the current emotional labor burden on female leaders isn’t sustainable, and more.
Read MoreCollaboration at Work: The 5 Essentials
5 questions that predict how well teams connect, create and collaborate – and emotional intelligence tips to implement them with your team
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 MoreImpact on Women at Work: 3 Key Insights on Female Leadership
Two major research studies combine to offer compelling insights on women at work
Read MoreWhy Emotional Intelligence for Managers? Practical Tips and Resources to Improve Performance
Research consistently finds that emotional intelligence is the key driver of success for managers – but how does it work to bring emotional intelligence for managers?
Read MoreIs 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
Read MoreEmployees Are Facing Burnout. 5 Evidence-Based Emotional Intelligence Strategies for Leaders to Rekindle the Fire
Burnout is caused by basic emotional needs going unmet, and the antidote is for leaders and employees to leverage emotional intelligence.
Read MoreActive 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.
Read MoreEmpathy Is the Future of Work
As AI replaces knowledge workers across industries, social and emotional skills will be what separates the top performers
Read MoreLeading 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?
Read MoreResearch: The Key to Leading Change Successfully Is Emphasizing What Will Stay the Same
The secret of successful change efforts is to stress what… isn’t changing? Research sheds light on the neuroscience of change.
Read MoreTechnology Loneliness: EQ Tips from Daniel Goleman
In the chaos of contemporary life, how do we maintain connection to self and others? Two of the world’s preeminent experts on emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman and Joshua Freedman, discuss in an engaging Q&A.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreIncrease Employee Engagement with EQ: Komatsu Case Study
Can we measure and increase Employee Engagement in an economic challenge? What’s the benefit? Case study at Komatsu plant using “Vital Signs” and “Emotional Intelligence”: engagement increased from 33 to 70%. At the same time, plant performance increased by 9.4%.
Read More5 tips: Using EQ to Build a High Performing Culture
Can emotions be part of organizational strategy? Here are 5 expert insights and the latest research on improving performance by being smart with feelings, aka, emotional intelligence.
Read MoreDaniel 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.
Read MoreUnderstanding and using fear to support change
Fear is the key to change. Here’s how to understand it, transform it — or more forward anyway.
Read MoreEQ 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.
Read MoreSkills of high performing leaders? (#16)
People interested in EQ know that emotional intelligence is essential for leadership — but how, exactly, are they linked? We’ll unveil new research showing, for the first time, how specific EQ skills and leadership capabilities are linked… revealing a path to grow stronger leadership that WORKS in the current times.
Read MoreThree 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.
Read MoreWorkplace 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.
Read MoreMoment 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.
Read MoreApplying Coaching Tools to Better Work and Life
A powerful conversation on how the tools and methods of coaching can help ALL of us right now
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 MoreThree 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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