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Emotional Intelligence at Work: 4 Rules on Remote Work

Remote work has stabilized post-COVID – and also become a polarized topic. Here are 4 rules and how to apply emotional intelligence.

The New Energy Crisis – People at Work (or Not)

The brutal fact: People are disengaging because companies are failing their people. How can companies do better?

How Much Is Low Emotional Intelligence Costing Your Organization?

Low emotional intelligence ultimately results in lost productivity, higher turnover, and lower revenue. Here’s how to break the cycle.

How Much of the $1.8T Are You Losing? 4 Steps to Increase Engagement and Reduce Turnover with Emotional Intelligence

Stop wasting money and learn how to leverage emotional intelligence for better results. Here’s a 4-step plan to get started.

Research: The Key Benefits of Mentorship at Work

Mentored employees are generally more productive, engaged, and satisfied with their jobs – and more likely to get promoted.

New Research: 4-Day Workweek Improves Employee Wellbeing and Company Revenue

Global pilot program correlated with dramatic improvements in employee’s mental and physical health – and company’s bottom line results.

What’s Wrong with Empathy? EQ Coaching for Leadership

What does ‘strong leadership’ mean today? It turns out, (the right kind of) empathy & coaching are at the heart of how leaders ACTUALLY create impact.

A 3-D Picture: The 3 Questions That Make Coaching Work

Wow! When coaching works, new possibilities flow, and clients feel an incredible sense of freedom and support. But even good coaches don’t always get that result, and usually it’s because they missed one of the 3 “must have” questions…

Structuring Transformational Learning: The Six Seconds Change MAP and Learning Philosophy

For you, is learning about collecting knowledge… or about using it to create change? Our learning programs are lifechanging because we work WITH the brain and structure learning to fuel growth – here’s how.

Collaboration at Work: The 5 Essentials

5 questions that predict how well teams connect, create and collaborate – and emotional intelligence tips to implement them with your team

When You Don’t Click with Your Coworker

What can you do? Emotional intelligence tips to build bridges and collaborate better even when it’s challenging.

Impact on Women at Work: 3 Key Insights on Female Leadership

Two major research studies combine to offer compelling insights on women at work

Why Emotional Intelligence for Managers? Practical Tips and Resources to Improve Performance

Research consistently finds that emotional intelligence is the key driver of success for managers – but how does it work to bring emotional intelligence for managers?

Is It Possible to Change? 5 Tips from Emergent Strategy Where Climate Justice and Social Justice Meet

Facing vast challenges, it’s easy to lose optimism. Yet new research says it’s the key to change. How do we renew this resource? The combination of emotional intelligence and Emergent Strategy offers a path

Active Listening as a Leader: 4 Ways to Use Emotional Intelligence To Listen Well

Exceptional leaders have mastered the art of deep, active listening. Here are 4 practical tips to use emotional intelligence to listen well.

Empathy Is the Future of Work

As AI replaces knowledge workers across industries, social and emotional skills will be what separates the top performers

Leading a Hybrid Workforce: What Google, Microsoft & Spotify Can Teach Managers About Emotional Intelligence for The Future of Work

New research: The hybrid workplace is here. Do we have the emotional intelligence skills to make it work?

Research: The Key to Leading Change Successfully Is Emphasizing What Will Stay the Same

The secret of successful change efforts is to stress what… isn’t changing? Research sheds light on the neuroscience of change.

Technology Loneliness: EQ Tips from Daniel Goleman

In the chaos of contemporary life, how do we maintain connection to self and others? Two of the world’s preeminent experts on emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman and Joshua Freedman, discuss in an engaging Q&A.

Increase Employee Engagement with EQ: Komatsu Case Study

Can we measure and increase Employee Engagement in an economic challenge? What’s the benefit? Case study at Komatsu plant using “Vital Signs” and “Emotional Intelligence”: engagement increased from 33 to 70%. At the same time, plant performance increased by 9.4%.

5 tips: Using EQ to Build a High Performing Culture

Can emotions be part of organizational strategy? Here are 5 expert insights and the latest research on improving performance by being smart with feelings, aka, emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman on The Neural Power of Leadership

Why do feelings matter to leaders? Interview with Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, on a new leadership imperative for optimizing human performance and the research that makes attention to feelings a bottom-line priority.

Understanding and using fear to support change

Fear is the key to change. Here’s how to understand it, transform it — or more forward anyway.

EQ Training for Business: 15 Best Practice Tips

How do you use emotional intelligence training for business? Three key ingredients + 15 tips, based on interviews with dozens of business leaders.

Skills of high performing leaders? (#16)

People interested in EQ know that emotional intelligence is essential for leadership — but how, exactly, are they linked? We’ll unveil new research showing, for the first time, how specific EQ skills and leadership capabilities are linked… revealing a path to grow stronger leadership that WORKS in the current times.

How to Fire Someone with Emotional Intelligence

Firing someone is emotionally challenging. It’s easily one of the hardest aspects of leadership. Here are practical emotional intelligence tips to do it with compassion, clarity and calm.

Three Tools for Workplace Communication

Communication in the workplace is a constant challenge. Fortunately, research on emotions and the brain has helped clarify key communication tools.

Reversing the Epidemic of Doctor Burnout

What will reverse the epidemic of burnout among doctors? This case study at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab found a brief emotional intelligence intervention dramatically increased doctors’ capacity to avoid burnout.

Marvel Studios’ Success: The 3-Step Innovation Model

Harvard Business Review identified a 3-step model of innovation fueling Marvel’s historic run. Here’s how we apply these principles at Six Seconds and how you can, too.

3 Practical Ways to Apply Innovation Neuroscience

Advanced brain imaging technology has shed new light on the neuroscience of innovation – here’s what they found and and how to take advantage.

Stagnation & Vitality: The Value of EQ in Japan

As we’re working to create economic vitality, we need also to re-invigorate the “people-side” as well. EQ provides a structure to do this in way that’s both practical and scientific.

Case Study: EQ Declines During Medical School

Recent research at Liberty University finds that medical students’ emotional intelligence scores declined across the board during their training – even as a growing body of evidence points to the importance of EQ in modern healthcare.

Feeling Anxious About Giving Feedback? 3 Steps to Ensure a Productive, Compassionate Conversation

Feeling anxious about giving feedback? You’re not alone. It’s one of the hardest and most uncomfortable aspects of leadership. Here’s a 3-step process to give feedback with EQ.

Thriving Women Leaders & Holistic Coaching

This is the story of a small group of female L&D professionals in Peru who came together to get certified in the SEI – and walked away with a much deeper transformation.

Amadori Case: Engagement,  EQ & 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%.

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