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Emotional Intelligence Fuels Vital Leadership: 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.

The Amadori Case: Supplying McDonalds – Organizational Engagement,  Emotional Intelligence and 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%.

How to Lead People in a VUCA World: Lessons from Siemens Healthineers

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?

Case Study Connected Leadership: Engaging 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?

How Vital is Your Organization? Key Findings & Report on the 2017 Vitality Survey

Q: How are people feeling at work… and does it matter? A: Frustrated, and yes! Get the free report with results of the global study on emotions in the workplace.

Case: Doubling Down on EQ Culture at ServRx

It’s “the classic problem” of a successful startup: The company was growing, but the culture was not. Here’s how they used EQ to double their employee engagement and increase net profit by 110%.

Leading Your Team Through Change

When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.

Middle School Climate & Learning – New Research at AERA

New research is shedding light on what middle schoolers are feeling about school and learning — and what makes social emotional learning (SEL) effective for young adolescents. They crave authenticity and connection, but are not finding these at school.

The Vital Hospital: EQ and Patient Centered Care

I was remembering recently the last months I spent with my father during his terminal illness and his successful determination to stay out of the hospital, to remain at home until the end. He felt that going to the hospital would cause unneeded stress, discomfort, and medical intervention. I fully supported his decision, but also […]