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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Leveraging Six Seconds’ unique insight to the people-side of performance, articles in this section support leaders to increase organizational effectiveness and create enduring value for all stakeholders.
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 MoreEmotional Intelligence in Healthcare: A Quick Check-In Guide to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Burnout
Discover how emotional intelligence can help healthcare professionals reduce burnout, strengthen teamwork, and improve patient care.
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 MoreThe Emotional Recession: Trillions of Dollars, Trillions of Heavy Days
The emotional recession is making every interaction harder. Discover five EQ strategies to rebuild resilience, trust, and connection at work and beyond.
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 MoreHow Emotional Intelligence Drives Personal, Social, and Environmental Sustainability
Discover how emotional intelligence is the missing link to achieving sustainability—personally, socially, and environmentally—in a world facing emotional recession and AI-driven burnout.
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 Motivation Iceberg: 3 Tips to Unleash Motivation
How do you use emotional intelligence to fuel lasting motivation? The Motivation Iceberg is a simple, clear model for understanding how to motivate – even in WFH during a pandemic.
Read MoreHow to Thrive in a BANI World: Insights from the World’s Largest Study of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is declining just when we need it most. Drawing from the the world’s largest EQ study, this article explores why and how to reverse the trend—with women leading the way toward emotionally intelligent leadership.
Read MoreWhy True Leaders Must Think Like Trainers: How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Excel in a Leadership Role
Discover how Emotional Intelligence and a trainer’s mindset can transform leadership, fostering growth, autonomy, and long-term success.
Read MoreThe Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and How to Use It (+ PDF)
What is emotional intelligence and how do you practice it? Explore the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence to improve your life and relationships.
Read MoreUnlocking Performance 2.0: Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Leading in a BANI World
Are we looking for solutions in the right place? What if the key to success isn’t stricter control and efficiency, but more empathy and trust?
Read MoreAI Fakes It: Good Leaders Keep It Real
We tested top GenAI models’ emotional intelligence—what we found reveals insights that every leader needs to know and will change the way you lead in an AI-powered world.
Read MorePlutchik’s Wheel of Emotions: Feelings Wheel
Grow your emotional literacy with Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. Then download the free Practicing Emotional Intelligence eBook to go deeper!
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: In the Era of AI, What Happens to Human Skills?
Who’s winning the artificial intelligence race: machines or people? Research finds AI investment leads to disinvestment in human skills
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Exploring the Principles of Exceptional Leaders
Check out these 7 valuable leadership lessons to be the best leader you can be and bring the best out of people.
Read More3 Winning Strategies for Successful Change Leadership: Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
Can coaching tools help you lead successful organizational change? Here’s how to build team ownership and drive better outcomes by applying emotional intelligence for a coaching mindset.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: New Research Reveals 5 Practical Tips to Make Workplace Boredom Beneficial
How to navigate boredom in a healthy and productive manner as an employee and as an entire organization. New research reveals key insights.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Slack Study Finds Massive Benefits to Taking Breaks, but Half of Employees Don’t Take Them
Research from Slack’s Workforce Index found that making time for breaks during the workday improves employee wellbeing and productivity
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: The Free, Easy Win Most Managers Are Missing
Gallup study compares the biggest gaps in employee vs. manager perceptions. What are managers’ worst blind spots? What are easy wins they could do better to improve team performance?
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Is There Hope for Toxic Workplaces?
The remarkable transformation at Westcomm Pump offers a blueprint for turning around workplaces with depleted morale and trust issues, using the Team Vital Signs assessment.
Read MoreGen Z Is Unlike Any Generation Before It. New Research Reveals Why – and How to Work More Effectively with the iGen
Here are 3 key insights from the world’s largest study of emotional intelligence, and what it means for working effectively with Zoomers.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Stress Is (Still) Rising Globally. Here Are 3 Evidence-Based Solutions
Globally, 44% of employees globally reported feeling stressed A LOT of the day yesterday. Here are 3 solutions to reduce stress.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: 3 Steps to End Meeting Madness and Its Emotional Toll
The modern workplace has a meeting problem, and it takes an emotional and financial toll on people. Here are 3 steps to restore sanity.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: 7 Principles to Rewrite the Unwritten Rules of Expressing Emotions
An organization’s emotional culture influences employee satisfaction, burnout and the bottom line. Is it time to rethink your rules?
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Why Traditional Performance Reviews Often Backfire – and 6 Principles to Follow Instead
Not a fan of performance reviews? You’re not alone. Here’s why the annual performance review doesn’t work – and what to do about it.
Read MoreBuilding Inclusion Across Borders: Three Lessons from Make-A-Wish Foundation’s DEI Launch
Six Seconds and Make-A-Wish launch a pilot DEI program in Europe fueled by emotional intelligence – with promising results.
Read MoreEmotional Insights for Leaders: What Is Overwhelm Trying to Tell You?
Practical tips and activities to turn feelings of overwhelm into clarity and productivity – for you and your team.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Study Shows Both Promise and Peril of AI
Do AIs like ChatGPT and Claude help business consultants do better work? The answers vary widely based on the task, according a new study.
Read MoreHR Leaders Identify Top Brain Talents Needed for 2024
Over 300 HR professionals in Italy select the top emotional intelligence Brain Talents needed for 2024 and beyond.
Read MoreEmotional Insights for Leaders: Compassion and How to Use it to Build High Performing Teams
In this installment of the Emotional Insights for Leaders series, we look at an emotion that is critical for success: Compassion.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Why Are Managers So Unhappy?
Worldwide, employees aren’t happy – even less happy than at the height of the pandemic. And it’s even worse for managers. Why?
Read MoreEmotional Insights for Leaders: Frustration and How to Harness It for Good
In this installment of the Emotional Insights for Leaders, we look at a valuable emotion that we often prefer to avoid: Frustration.
Read MoreTech Is In Trouble: Will Return to Office Mandates Make it Even Worse?
Tech workers are burnt out and unhappy, but tech CEOs are doubling down on return-to-office mandates anyway.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence at Work: Where Workers Are Struggling Most
New data from the world’s largest study of emotional intelligence reveals a burnout epidemic in Tech – and alarming an engagement in Japan.
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