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.
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Change is emotional – and ignoring that fact is why some 90% of change efforts fail at a personal level, and 70% of organizational change efforts fail to meet their objectives. Articles in this section share the neuroscience behind change, and tips and strategies to manage it more successfully with emotional intelligence.
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.
Read MoreLeading Your Team Through Change
When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.
Read MoreThree Essential Skills for High Performing Leaders: Research on Leadership, Emotional Intelligence & Performance
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 MoreHarnessing Emotional Intelligence: How Sara Canna Supports Employees and Transforms People’s Lives at the World Health Organization (WHO)
Emotional intelligence is more than just a buzzword—it’s a transformative tool that can reshape how we navigate challenges, build relationships, and thrive in demanding environments. Discover how Sara Canna brought EQ to the World Health Organization, empowering employees to manage change, stress, and personal growth.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence + Coaching = ? How EQ makes coaching work better
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.
Read MoreThe Upside of Uncertainty: Neuroscience for Coaching
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.
Read MoreThe Neuroscience of Chai: Overcoming My Own Obstinance
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.
Read MoreWhen Change Fails: Tips for Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
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.
Read MoreThe 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? Explore the neuroscience of change and motivation.
Read MoreGoalsetting That Works: Three Coaching Tools to Leverage the Neuroscience of Emotion
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!)
Read MoreGlimmers of Purpose: 3 Emotional Intelligence Tips for Coaching on Purpose in a Short-Term World
Bad news: Globally, sense of purpose is declining. Good news: Using emotional intelligence in coaching, we can magnify and brighten the glimmers of purpose
Read MoreWhy ‘I Have to Change’ is a Coaching Red Flag – 3 Solutions from Emotional Intelligence
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.
Read More3 Coaching Tools for Shifting Out of Problematic Patterns
When coaching clients say, “I KNOW this, but I’m still having trouble changing…” Here’s what drives that system, and simply effective tools to get unstuck.
Read More3 Neuroscience Tips to Coach Like a Vacation – Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
Did you know that people are much more likely to change habits when they are on vacation? From the neuroscience of change & uncertainty, 3 tips to improve coaching with emotional intelligence
Read MoreHow Do You Want Your Students to Feel? Emotional Intelligence Tips for Teaching in 2023
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.
Read MoreStructuring Transformational Learning: The Six Seconds Change MAP and Learning Philosophy
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 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 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 MorePracticing Emotional Intelligence During Covid-19
While we cannot control the pandemic and all that it brings, we can control who we are and what we want to stand for in the face of it.
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 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 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 MoreWelcome to Q3: Innovation & Emotional Intelligence
Today, with the rise of the 4th Industrial Revolution, innovation is our new reality. How can we utilize emotional intelligence to survive – and even thrive – in the uncertainty?
Read MoreCultivate Growth Mindset with Unlikely Gratitude
Unlikely Gratitude: Finding the opportunity for growth in an otherwise, mundane, annoying, or horrible situation.
Read MoreIlluminate: What’s Your Brain’s Extreme Habit?
A guide to tempering it for better decision making. Dive into your own brain’s extreme preferences + explore some tools for teaching your brain that there is indeed a different way to look at things.
Read MoreBack to School with Hope and Maybe Something More?
Heading back to school, mixed with hope & fear. How can we help students (anyone) feel belonging and acceptance as they are — while also supporting them to keep growing?
Read MoreLessons from EQ.EDU Higher Ed Conference
How do we bridge the gap between childhood and the workforce? How can Higher Ed use EQ to improve outcomes? EQ.EDU Moving SEL into Higher Ed conference explores these topics.
Read MoreHow to Lead People in a VUCA World: Siemens Case
How did an EQ intervention create a 139% increase in the number of highly engaged managers and a 46% increase in engagement scores overall in a (VUCA) context?
Read MoreThe Trust Revolution: 4 Powerful Strategies from Neuroeconomist Paul Zak
As trust in social institutions spirals down and people feel more isolated, is the social contract battered beyond repair? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak on the latest trust data and the implications for leaders.
Read More3 Tips for Leaders to Increase Trust
Trust. That invisible force that makes things feel just right… and fuels teams & organizations to excel. Article, free slides & quiz on TRUST and how to get more.
Read MoreThe Enthusiasm of the Desperate
Read MoreHow to Teach Children Emotional Intelligence for a Better World
When feelings run hot, how can we use emotional intelligence to fuel our commitment for positive change… and support children to create a better world?
Read MoreHow to Make Stressful Change Sticky: Focus & Reflection
Want to be successful in stressful change? Don’t lose focus, use stress to connect people & lock reflection into the process.
Read MoreDaniel Goleman on the Dalai Lama’s Vision for Good
“Real change will take place when individuals transform themselves guided by the values that lie at the core of all human ethical systems, scientific findings, and common sense.” –the Dalai Lama If you could encourage people to make just one small change to transform the world, what would you ask them to do? Daniel Goleman […]
Read MoreA Curious Case For Boredom
Tired of feeling bored? Finally we can understand the reasons behind the feelings of being trapped, restlessness, lack of challenge, and lack of purpose.
Read MorePhysiology of Emotion, Exercise, and Change
I was recently talking to a group about the fact that we can choose how we feel. “But didn’t you say emotions are an automatic biological response?” Yes, in fact, I did… but don’t we have choice about our biology? I remember years ago interviewing neurobiologist Debra Niehoff about the way some people seemed […]
Read MoreAddressing 21st Century Issues with Emotional Intelligence: A conversation with Daniel Goleman and The Six Seconds EQ Network
Read MoreCase Study: EQ in the Navy and Marine Corps
In an 18-month project to equip leaders with new insights and tools for the people-side of change, this initiative created a 43% increase in participants’ readiness to cope with the complexities of organizational transformation. Background: The US military continues to undergo significant change to address the changing global context. Just as many companies face the […]
Read MoreExercise or Die? Emotional Intelligence and Health
For the past 20 years, my most rigorous exercise has been carrying my laptop around the world. Still, when I went to the doctor for a checkup (finally), I was surprised and dismayed by my blood pressure. [This article was first published 12/21/2005 — the good news: I’ve come to like exercise!] Over the years […]
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