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Emotional Intelligence: Your Key to Workplace Resilience
December 07, 2017
Often, we discuss the significance of emotional intelligence in the workplace from a specific perspective, such as how HR leaders can use EI to find the perfect job candidates. However, emotional intelligence is important from many different aspects. For example, EI influences your ability to handle professional challenges and everyday stresses. The modern workplace can be...
Using EI to Manage Workplace Diversity
November 27, 2017
Our world is undergoing a transformation, and there are fewer places where this change is more noticeable than the modern workplace. Today’s workplaces are made of up individuals from diverse backgrounds who have different perspectives and expectations about the working environment. As a result, there can no longer be a single “unwritten rule” that applies...
Creating a Coaching Culture for Millennials
October 26, 2017
The modern workplace is changing. According to The Pew Research Centre, Millennials (individuals born between 1983-1996) currently make up the largest part of the U.S. workforce, and are predicted to count for half of the global workforce by 2020. Not only is this generation changing what the workplace looks like, they’re also ambitiously pursuing goals...
Touchdown! 3 Ways to Enter the Coaching Hall of Fame
October 26, 2017
What can coaches learn from professional football? A lot, in fact. From rookies, to wide receivers, to star quarterbacks, football coaches take the time to train and support every player on their team, regardless of their role. Professional sports coaches know that when every member of the team succeeds, the whole team succeeds. Bill Walsh,...
Recruiters: Use Emotional Intelligence to Find Your Rockstar Candidates
September 25, 2017
No matter what your business does, or what part of industry you’re a part of, it’s the people you work with that make your business what it is. An important factor in a positive work culture is the Emotional Intelligence (EI) of the people who work there. Whether you’re hiring for a startup or a...
Improving Employee Performance Through Emotional Intelligence
September 25, 2017
Whether you’re the CEO of a large enterprise or a small-to-medium enterprise, your employees are the heart of your company. They are the people who communicate with your clients, demonstrate the value of your business, and create a positive workplace culture. However, for a professional environment to be welcoming to both clients and staff, employees...
The Benefits of EQ for Teenagers
August 25, 2017
We often discuss the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) as it relates to the modern workplace; how businesses are changing and shifting priority away from individuals who are driven but can’t work well with others, to adaptive, responsive, and inclusive workplaces that foster greater levels of success. One of the best times to begin teaching...
3 Interview Questions to Assess Emotional Intelligence
August 23, 2017
One of the biggest indicators of success in the workplace is the ability to build lasting relationships, empathize with others, and manage emotions in healthy and constructive ways. This is especially true for employees who are in customer or client-relations roles, where traits like well-developed Emotional Intelligence can mean the difference between productive and long-lasting...
Emotional Intelligence: The Skills You Didn’t Learn in School
July 31, 2017
In the classroom, most curriculums are the same: you learn science, mathematics, geography, and other valuable educational subjects. However, there is one important subject that is missing from the classroom. Emotional intelligence, or EI, is a term used by psychologists that describes an individual’s ability to handle and read their own emotions, and how they...
The 5 Aspects of Emotional Intelligence
July 31, 2017
As modern businesses progress towards team-based approaches to workplace development and coaching, leaders have had to hone-in on their own emotional intelligence in order to successfully coach employees and strengthen their individual leadership skills. Leaders who have a strong understanding of their own emotional intelligence (EI), become increasingly equipped with the four key skills of...