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What Makes an Emotional Intelligence Test Valid?

Emotional intelligence assessments can be impactful and even transformational, but how do you know if a test is accurate and trustworthy?

Emotional 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.

The 3 Parts of Empathy: Thoughts, Feelings and Actions

Even though the first part gets the lion’s share of attention, practicing true empathy requires all 3 parts. Here’s how.

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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.

Case Study: Linking Emotional Intelligence to Bottom Line Results at Amadori

This three-year case study at Amadori found a strong, significant link between the “hard” outcome of results and the “soft skills” of emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence at Work: Tips for Managers to Reduce Burnout and Navigate Hybrid Work

Managing people has never been this hard – and at the same time, leaders have a unique opportunity to increase autonomy and engagement like never before.

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.

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?

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

Does 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.

Emotional 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.

The Empathy Iceberg: 3 Proven Tips for Managers to Engage People

How can managers use emotional intelligence to increase empathy in the workplace? It starts with a willingness to go “beneath the surface.”

When 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.

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

What’s Wrong with Self-Help?

Self-help can be a force for good, but there are pitfalls. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself to get the most out of self-help.

How Did the Pandemic Impact People’s Emotional Intelligence? 3 Key Insights – New Research

Key insights from the world’s largest emotional intelligence study on optimism, decision making and more during COVID-19

Empathy Is the Future of Work

As AI replaces knowledge workers across industries, social and emotional skills will be what separates the top performers

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!

Motivational Interviewing: 8 Questions to Ask Clients to Motivate Change

Motivational interviewing is a communication technique that engages people’s intrinsic motivation to make changes – with powerful results.

Want a Good Life? 3 Lessons from Harvard Grant Study

Harvard study, more than 80 years old, identifies the common threads of a long, satisfying life. So what makes a good life? And how can this study’s findings help us make better decisions in our own lives?

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.

Goals, Purpose and Meaning: What’s the Difference?

Goals, purpose and meaning are often used interchangeably, but there are key differences between these concepts. Understanding how they differ can help us create alignment between what we do, why, and the impact we want to have.

Improve your Virtual Classroom with Social Emotional Learning: 10 Tips for Teachers and Students

Get practical tips and activities to teach social emotional learning virtually.

Why Telling Your Coaching Clients to “Find Your Purpose” Is Bad Advice

Purpose is essential for thriving, but many people go about it the wrong way. Here are 3 tips to help clients to stop looking for purpose, and start making it.

What 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.

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?

6 Tips for Making the Best of Your Reality

Our current reality is challenging. What do we do when we can’t change it? Here’s how we can make it the best reality possible with these six practical tips you can do today.

Coaching for Change (#24)

Ideally, coaching is a transformational process, building internal capacity to create change in the world. Coaching is more than “conversations,” and different than “mentoring” and “training” because it’s a partnership for growth. In this vision, coaching manifests a new form of “power with,” and couldn’t that help us build a better world?

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.

Ask Us Anything About Emotions (#23)

What do emotions mean and how can we use them better? Check out this playful and provocative livestream asking anything about feelings!

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

Coaching Emotions (#22)

Join Jenny Rogers (author of Coaching Skills), Ann Rindone (VP at ICF), Natalie Roitman (coauthor of The EQ Gym) and Josh Freedman (author of At the Heart of Leadership) in a deep dive to the heart of coaching.

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?

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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