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3 Key Ideas on Parenting with Emotional Intelligence

Parenting is hard. Here are 3 principles to infuse your parenting style with emotional intelligence and guide your decision making.

Comparing the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence and CASEL Wheel

The Six Seconds EQ Model moves the CASEL competencies into action. Learn about both frameworks and how they complement each other.

EQ Coaching: When Clients Score ‘Too High’

How do coaches effectively work with clients when ‘everything is fine’? 10 strengths-based EQ strategies.

What Most People Get Wrong About Joy (do you?)

Breaking research on joy as a driver of performance — what’s the implication for professional coaching?

The Great Practice Myth: Debunking the 10,000 Hour Rule

The 10,000 Hour Rule: It’s a popular rule of thumb, but it isn’t based on solid science. Here are practical, research-backed tips on practice.

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…

Identify Your Most Fulfilling Career: A Step-by-Step Guide for Women

A 4-step guide for women to gain clarity and confidence with emotional intelligence.

What Makes an Emotional Intelligence Test Valid?

Emotional intelligence assessments can be impactful and even transformational, but how do you know if a test is accurate and trustworthy?

The 3 Parts of Empathy: Thoughts, Feelings and Actions

Explore the 3 parts of empathy—thoughts, feelings, and actions—and learn how practicing all three strengthens connection and emotional intelligence.

POP-UP Festival Partnership with AEON Corporation

Over 400 children and parents enjoyed playing and learning about emotional intelligence through hands-on activities and family fun with POP-UP Festival at AEON mall in Japan.

Virtual Coaching Presence | 3 Research-Based Tips for Authenticity

Coaching Presence is an essential part of the work, rooted in authenticity it builds trust — and it’s harder to make it work in virtual meetings. Here’s what to do.

Case Study: Linking Emotional Intelligence to Bottom Line Results at Amadori

This three-year case study at Amadori found a strong, significant link between the “hard” outcome of results and the “soft skills” of emotional intelligence.

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.

Celebrating 25 Years Growing the World’s Emotional Intelligence

Since 1997, the Six Seconds community has served to increase the world’s emotional intelligence. How’s it going?

Balancing Burnout to Embody Coaching | 🌱 EQ Coaching News

A wellbeing gift for you & your clients that’s central to your role of coach. This is at the heart of International Coaching Federation competency #2: Embodies a Coaching Mindset. In this Era of the Amygdala, balance is elusive, so I’d like to share two important tools for that

The Empathy Iceberg: 3 Proven Tips for Managers to Engage People

How can managers use emotional intelligence to increase empathy in the workplace? It starts with a willingness to go “beneath the surface.”

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.

Emotional Intelligence Gaps Across the Generations

Are the generations really that different? New data from the world’s largest study of emotional intelligence says yes… in concerning ways

What’s Wrong with Self-Help?

Self-help can be a force for good, but there are pitfalls. Here are 3 questions to ask yourself to get the most out of self-help.

How Did the Pandemic Impact People’s Emotional Intelligence? 3 Key Insights – New Research

Key insights from the world’s largest emotional intelligence study on optimism, decision making and more during COVID-19

Empathy Is the Future of Work

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

Head, Heart & Hands: What Makes Learning Work Best?

There’s a LOT to learn… but first: What is learning? How can the latest neuroscience help us understand how learning works best — for ourselves, at work, at school… in life!

Motivational Interviewing: 8 Questions to Ask Clients to Motivate Change

Motivational interviewing is a communication technique that engages people’s intrinsic motivation to make changes – with powerful results.

21 EQ Resources for Emotional Wellbeing for COVID

In the storms of volatility fueled by COVID-19 news, both real and sensational, how do we maintain equilibrium? Collected resources on emotional intelligence to help.

Goals, Purpose and Meaning: What’s the Difference?

Goals, purpose and meaning are often used interchangeably, but there are key differences between these concepts. Understanding how they differ can help us create alignment between what we do, why, and the impact we want to have.

Improve your Virtual Classroom with Social Emotional Learning: 10 Tips for Teachers and Students

Get practical tips and activities to teach social emotional learning virtually.

Why Telling Your Coaching Clients to “Find Your Purpose” Is Bad Advice

Purpose is essential for thriving, but many people go about it the wrong way. Here are 3 tips to help clients to stop looking for purpose, and start making it.

What Are Biodots and How Do You Use Them?

Biodots are a low-cost, easy way to help your clients become more self-aware – here’s how to use them.

6 Tips for Making the Best of Your Reality

Our current reality is challenging. What do we do when we can’t change it? Here’s how we can make it the best reality possible with these six practical tips you can do today.

Coaching for Change (#24)

Ideally, coaching is a transformational process, building internal capacity to create change in the world. Coaching is more than “conversations,” and different than “mentoring” and “training” because it’s a partnership for growth. In this vision, coaching manifests a new form of “power with,” and couldn’t that help us build a better world?

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