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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Leadership is about setting a context where people come together to see and work toward a better future. Part of that is about rational data and systems… and part is about emotional data & relationships — which is improved by growing 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 MoreRequesting Trust: 5 Practical Steps to Repair and Increase Trust
Want to increase trust with someone? Try this challenging-but-rewarding framework for requesting trust.
Read MoreLeading Your Team Through Change
When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.
Read MoreGrappling 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.
Read MoreAssessing Trust
Want more clarity about how much you trust someone? Try these 3 techniques for assessing trust in a relationship.
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 MoreNegotiating Conflict with Emotional Intelligence
Want to “win” the argument? Negotiate conflict effectively by adding emotional intelligence in this simple 4-step process: Get REAL solutions!
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 MoreThe Wrong Time To Coach: What is the Most Effective Approach for Your Next 1:1?
As a manager, the coach-approach isn’t always the right path. How do you decide when to use a coaching style, or something else in your one-to-one?
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 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 More5 Questions to Develop Your Empathy: Increase Empathy for Success in 2023
Empathy is crucial to developing healthy relationships with yourself and others. These 5 questions can help you take your empathy to the next level.
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 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 MoreVirtual 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.
Read MoreCase 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.
Read MoreThe 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.”
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 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 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 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 More5 Leadership Books to Boost Emotional Intelligence
Want to take your leadership to the next level? Check out these 5 books that have inspired some of the world’s top EQ experts.
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.
Read MoreThriving Women Leaders & Holistic Coaching
This is the story of a small group of female L&D professionals in Peru who came together to get certified in the SEI – and walked away with a much deeper transformation.
Read MoreAccountable Communication: 4 Questions to Ask
Make clear commitments without wiggle room and you will empower yourself and others.
Read MoreGrowing Courageous Leaders for the Future
To create an environment that’s fit for the future, we need to help children grow the internal leadership skills that will allow them to build that reality. Here’s how.
Read MoreRevitalizing School Community
How do schools become vibrant, joyful, inclusive communities? School leaders intentionally build them with teachers, students and family collaboration.
Read MoreLessons from Patagonia
What lessons can we learn from a pioneering company to build community and good business? Here are six insights from Patagonia’s journey to create alignment and commitment to a shared purpose.
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 MoreEmotional Intelligence in the Workplace: Taking the Risk to Talk Emotions In Tech
Tombola is no stranger to versatility. And their latest move – to invest in emotional intelligence in the workplace – shows they are on the cutting edge once again.
Read MoreCase Study: Connected Leadership for Performance
Case Study: Developing leadership to improve relationships and accelerate change is a key goal in many organizations, so what’s the secret that helped 73% of leaders in this global tech company measurably improve?
Read MoreCareerLink Case Study: A New Organisational Culture
Case Study to introduce a new organisational culture with comprehensive training driven by individual assessment data and insight generates positive results
Read MoreThree Key Strategies from Stephen MR Covey to Build Trust & Create Wellbeing
Trust is essential to wellbeing, but trust is declining. Stephen MR Covey, bestselling author of Speed of Trust, offers three powerful strategies for leaders, and everyone, to reverse this trend.
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