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Applying Emotional Intelligence to Create Emotionally Supportive Workplaces
September 13, 2018
Our workplaces are more demanding than ever before. With executive burnout and derailment at an all-time high, it’s clear that our work is starting to take a serious toll on both our workplace and personal well-being. This trend is so pervasive that Harvard Business Review calculated that burnout is costing workplaces approximately $190 billion a...
Build a Resilient Workplace Culture With These 3 Simple Steps
December 12, 2017
The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as “The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” Within the modern organization, leaders and team members are faced with professional challenges and tough problems on a daily basis. From stressful emails, to the idea that employees must always be “plugged-in” to work-related issues even after hours, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to...
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...
Leading Top-Notch Teams: How Engineers Benefit from EQ
June 14, 2017
Engineering is one of the most challenging and technical professions out there. People who pursue engineering as a career are tasked with looking critically and analytically at the world around them, and need to take multiple factors such as cost, safety, regulation, and practicality into consideration when planning and executing a project. As a result,...
The Short & Long-Term Benefits of EQ Training
May 16, 2017
As a leader in your organization, you’ve experienced the results of managing professionals who are not in touch with their emotions in the workplace. Traditionally, workplace training is focused on strengthening practical or technical skills. But what happens when you incorporate EQ training, or emotional quotient training, into your professional development sector? EQ training works...