EQ assessment: how we measure emotional intelligence
Get assessed, get a report, plus a one hour debrief and a 30 minute coaching session. Assessment of your emotional quotient, or [EQ], is not an end in itself. It’s a means to an end….
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Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding
Dana Kanze is a doctoral fellow at Columbia Business School and she realized that the social psychological theory of regulatory focus, by Tory Higgins, might provide be a fruitful research method for understanding the implicit…
Elizabeth Cox: The surprising link between stress and memory | TED Talk
Stress has so many physiological effects and an important part of emotional intelligence is stress management. Here’s a short helpful video on the relationship between stress and memory (cognitive functioning!). Enjoy!
The Emotions That Make Us More | Harvard Business Review
This article is nice overview of the relationship of emotional intelligence skills to design, solution-making, art and creativity. Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight. Einstein…
Heart and Science of Leadership for Women in Calgary
There’s still time left to sign up for this leadership course in Calgary: November 26-28, 2018. Join us for a unique opportunity to explore and develop your emotional intelligence and leadership skills. Heart and Science…
The Myth Of CEO Work-Life Balance
The New York Times, we need to talk… I often read your column “My Workout” to learn tips on how other CEOs stay on top of their game. I’m always searching for advice from visionaries…
Brené Brown is awesome
Part of what makes Brown’s work appealing is how she frames her call for intense self-reflection, by acknowledging that she struggles with this process as much as anyone else. “It’s much easier to talk about…
‘Dancing Backwards in High Heels’ | Inside Higher Ed
Numerous studies have found that female professors shoulder a disproportionate amount of service work compared to their male peers. Research also suggests that students hold female instructors to a different standard than they do male faculty members, especially…
All career advice for women is a form of gaslighting — Ephrat Livni, Quartz at Work
The patriarchy, it turns out, is still more powerful than “leaning in”. This is really interesting research and a good analysis of a social problem in need of a social policy response. “Empowerment advice for…
The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest…
This is why overcoming the fear of failure is so important – Independent
This is an article about Matthew Syed’s book for kids about conquering perfectionism and not being afraid to make mistakes. This is why I have written a book for children. I wanted to present the…
It’s My Job and I’ll Cry If I Want to: The Case for Showing Emotions in the Workplace – Entrepreneur
Slavin addresses the value of creating a workplace where employees can show up as their whole selves – tears and all. By creating a workplace that does not allow people to share who they are,…
Build Self-Awareness with Help from Your Team – Harvard Business Review
This is an interesting, concise article about the benefits working on a “Loyalist Team” can have for self-awareness. We need feedback to help match our internal view of ourselves with the external view. Source: Build…
Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work Well. Why Some Studies Show Otherwise. – The New York Times
This is a fantastic read about the challenges of observational studies that don’t account for selection bias. Wow. The best of these observational studies try to control for these variables. Even so, we can never…
Brené Brown: Listening to shame | TED Talk
Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on….
Artificial Intelligence Seeks An Ethical Conscience | WIRED
The issue was crystallized in a keynote from Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford Tuesday. The conference, which drew nearly 8,000 researchers to Long Beach, California, is deeply technical, swirling in dense clouds of math and algorithms. Crawford’s good-humored…
Coaching for drive | The Emotional Intelligence Training Company, Inc.
How can we understand drive using the Emotional Intelligence model? In this webinar David Cory clarifies how we use drive and identifies the EI skills most connected to it… Source: David Cory webinar recap: Coaching…
Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving?
Plenty of research has documented manipulative misuses of emotional intelligence — the intentionally subtle regulating of one’s emotions to engineer responses from others that might not be in their best interest. Given that most people aren’t sociopaths,…
EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Certification | The Emotional Intelligence Training Company, Inc.
Become an EQ-i 2.0® Certified Practitioner. EITC has been an industry leader in Emotional Intelligence for over 20 years and we want to share what we’ve learned with you. We provide you with everything you…
PsycNET Record Display – PsycNET
Lyubomirsky, S., Sousa, L., & Dickerhoof, R. (2006). The costs and benefits of writing, talking, and thinking about life’s triumphs and defeats. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(4), 692-708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.692 Three studies considered the…
Journaling; An Active Learning Technique : International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Journaling is a method frequently discussed in nursing literature and educational literature as an active learning technique that is meant to enhance reflective practice. Reflective practice is a means of self-examination that involves looking back…
