Conflict-resilience through coaching and emotional intelligence
Human resources leaders have the influence to build conflict-resilient workplaces through the training and development of emotional intelligence skills.
Accelerating DEI in the workplace? You will need emotional intelligence skills
What counts as professional skills is changing and teams are faced with rising expectations. Here’s how emotional intelligence can help.
Challenging the myth that resilience is simply personal fortitude
I would like to explore some of the consequences of minimizing the social conditions that make it so difficult for some to recover from challenges or adversity. Let’s take a deeper look at some key narratives that dominate the current perspectives on resilience.
Negotiating with emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence skills can make a critical difference in our negotiations.
The science of people skills: Measuring emotional intelligence
Since humans are social and emotional beings, effective human interactions require emotional skills. This explains why the performance of organizations is deeply connected to the emotional intelligence skills of their team members.
Emotionally intelligent alternative to New Year’s resolutions
They help keep us on track. Realistically, not everything we do fits with our values, however, we make allowances for less valuable activities or decisions as we ultimately see that they are somehow part of an overall value of ours…
“My boss has no emotional intelligence”
For some, the term “emotional intelligence” is pesky. It has that word “emotional” in it and being emotional has a bad reputation in our society – let alone in business. However, some of the most effective organizations on the planet …
Five ways emotional intelligence can help you get your next job
Emotional intelligence forms a critical foundation for workplace effectiveness and is really important to your professional success. But can it help you get a job…
Reality testing and learning to change our opinions
Being able to accept and integrate new information is an emotional intelligence skill. Many of us think of reality testing as cognitive intelligence. To really grapple deeply with this, consider this funny thing about humans…
Know. Engage. Lead.
Our team recently enjoyed a dynamic three day planning session, which included some new team members! We wanted to come up with some key ideas that would animate everything we do …
Gratitude: optimism in action
I’ve been thinking about gratitude, weekends with family, having so much, and how this relates to emotional intelligence …
Consent, new email laws and doing business
We have new (not that new) anti-spam laws in Canada, and it reminds me of how important consent is …
The Botswana EQ Project
One of the most difficult and subtle issues associated with working on a project in some other part of the world is ensuring that you do not try to make their culture more like your own…
A radio interview with David Cory, from the archive
Here’s an interview with Kaj Gyr with Radio Nelson. David Cory gets a chance to talk about emotions, the difference between emotional intelligence and emotional …
The Emotional Intelligence of Physicians
Doctors are unique in many ways. For example, there is no other group of people on the planet for whom we have a greater expectation that they have great technical knowledge and demonstrate compassion and caring…