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Leading in Times of Uncertainty
Leading in times of uncertainty is critical, especially during the global spread of a deadly virus and the current economic meltdown. How emotionally resilient are you in times of instability? On top of the burden of managing your own internal emotions around the...
Experiential Learning in the Workplace
The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius once said: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand". Today more and more organizations are gravitating to assimilating experiential learning in the workplace. Why? Companies are starting to see the...
Assigning a Task Clearly
One prominent mistake managers make daily in the workplace is the ability to assign a task to subordinates effectively. Often, managers are vague in their directive, not specific about what a good job looks like, or think that they don’t have time to explain a task in...
8 Tips For Giving Feedback
Giving feedback is something that takes time and practice to master. New employees and longtime managers alike can struggle to acquire this critical skill. Providing an evaluation or critique on someone's behaviour or performance can seem daunting; giving feedback can...
Coaching Skills for Leaders
Coaching skills for leaders is one of the most critical management skills you will need to learn. Managing your team is more than just supervising their work; it is about learning how to support and drive productivity in your organization. The key to ensure success...
Mastering Communication Styles
Mastering communication styles in the workplace is critical to building a culture of collaborative and transparent communication. Leveraging your communication style ensures you are able to keep lines of communication open, respectfully seek information, and...
Measure Your Emotional Intelligence
You’ve probably always thought that great leaders have some special quality that separates them from the rest of us. Well, you’re right. They do. That ”special quality” are well-developed emotional intelligence competencies. I think we all intuitively know that we...
There’s a battle between EI and AI in the Workplace, and EI is winning
Soon enough, algorithms and technology will determine everything. Are you checking out your groceries? Algorithm. Are you looking for an answer to an important question? Ask Siri. Want to play your hot summer playlist? You have Alexa for that. Artificial intelligence...
The Road to Self-Actualization
If you are struggling to understand your life’s purpose, you are not alone. The road to self-actualization is not an easy one! Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs may be a familiar concept to you. This five-stage model is drawn as a pyramid – from the bottom up. Our basic...
How to Mentor in the Workplace
Learning how to mentor in the workplace is an important skill to learn. A mentorship relationship is indeed a two-way street. The mentor has to be willing to help, advise, and coach the mentee, and the mentee has to be willing to put in the effort in order to get the...
What Are Your Strengths?
Everyone has a natural aptitude in something. What are your strengths? working with numbers drawing pictures teaching children growing plants caring for those less fortunate than you music athletics empathy writing working with your hands. Identifying your strengths...
Visualizing Your Way to Success
Setting goals is the first step towards success. They can provide a purpose, and point us in the right direction. Realizing and achieving our goals takes a lot of work and determination. Unfortunately, many of us get stuck at the goal stage, and can’t seem to convert...
3 Ways Mentors Can Change Your Life
Have you ever considered taking action in perusing something totally different from where you are now, but was unsure if it would be the right move? Have you ever thought of how to make that move, but were unsure of how to do it? If your answer is yes to either of...
Improve Your Well-Being with Self Management and Emotional Intelligence
Regardless if you are the CEO of a company or a super successful entrepreneur, there is always room for improvement. Often time’s we get so caught up in our job, friends and family that we forget to take care of ourselves. When is the last time you took time for...
Using Your EQ for Successful Networking
Everyone has heard that networking is a crucial part of business and it's true. However, large majorities believe that networking is only done face-to-face, which is in fact incorrect. Yes, networking events are common in a lot of businesses, but if you would like to...
Invest in Your Organization – Emotional Intelligence Training
Looking to make an investment in your employees? Not sure what to train them in next? How about Emotional Intelligence training? But first, let’s answer a question: What skills do you want your employees to have? Decision Making? Stress Tolerance? Anger Management?...
3 Tips for Getting Out of a Rut
We have all had those humdrum periods—those times when we seem to be doing the same activities over and over, and we feel miserable and unfulfilled about it. Perhaps you are bored with your life – there is nothing exciting on the horizon to look forward to, and you’re...
Avoid Decision Paralysis – How to Make a Better Decision
Have you ever found yourself lost for an answer when your friend asks you simply, “Where do you want to go for dinner?” There are just so many places to choose from. So, how do you make a better decision? I mean, you could invite her to come over to your house, as...
3 Strategies to Find Your True Calling
Have you ever felt stuck working the grind everyday, going through the motions, checking off your mundane, daily tasks from your to-do-list, just to make it to your weekend? You know in your heart of hearts, the only way to get unstuck is to make changes in your...
How EI Improves Your Leadership Skills
From a very young age, we are taught how to read and write, we are taught about sciences, mathematics, languages, fine arts, and social studies. Unfortunately, though, we are not taught the fundamental skills of emotional intelligence (EI) – the ability to use the...
Emotional Intelligence Interview Questions
Are you tired of having to constantly recruit fresh new talent? We spend significant resources of time and money in creating emotional intelligence interview questions because we all know that people can make or break our business. How can you be sure you are hiring...
Five Tips on How to Coach Employees
So, you have been coaching employees within an executive business for a few years now. You have built your business up so that your coachee’s lives have drastically improved and they have achieved more than what they thought possible before. Nonetheless, you feel like...
Creating Quality Relationships
In the corporate world, it’s easy to see the importance of relationships, and the benefits they can bring to your business. Mike Fishbein, in his book, Stop Networking!: Building Relationships, Meeting New People and Connecting with Authenticity, highlights the...
New Year, New Outlook
As we enter 2018 it is important to take a moment to reflect on the previous year and look ahead to the new year in front of us. What did you accomplish in 2017? What do you want to accomplish in 2018? How can you make this possible? Every year we make New Year’s...
Making Meaningful Small Talk
It takes courage to walk up to someone and engage in small talk. What do you talk about? What if there is a lull in the conversation? What if you end up doing all of the talking? Whether you are nervous because you just are not confident, you lack practice, or you...
Appreciation in the Workplace
Consider this: you have two employees who share the same job. Let’s call them John and Jane. They have the same duties, same daily responsibilities, and work with the same teammates. Jane is highly motivated and continually achieving exactly what you request of her....
7 Traits of Successful Leaders
Have you ever wondered why some people are so successful while others are not? What is the secret ingredient to their success? Well, here’s the truth…there really is no secret. Success is like baking a cake, everyone has their own favourite recipe, but the basic...
Emotionally Intelligent Teams
Working with different groups of people is unenviable. Whether it is in the workplace or the classroom, at some point you will have to work with a team to pursue a common outcome. When you are in a group you are faced with differences in opinions, beliefs,...
The Choice is Yours: Choose Change
At one point or another, all of us have had something happened in our life that made us spiral down into a world of despair. In that dark place, it felt like we didn’t have the strength to dig ourselves out of our black hole. We felt pathetic, worthless, and perhaps...
The Art of Effective Leadership
Leadership is a science and an art. To be an effective leader, one needs to incorporate both dimensions. George Ambler said “The science of leadership concerns the observations, study and classification of leadership practices, resulting in a reliable explanation of...
Leading Change in the Workplace
There are many examples from the world of business that show us how important change and innovation are to an organization’s very survival. Take Blackberry for example. A few years ago they were industry leaders in the cellphone market, with their qwerty keyboards...
Leading With Your Creativity
Today’s most famous leaders are innovative, creative, and think outside the box. We look at someone like Steve Jobs, for example, the most creative leader of all time. Jobs thought of a unique and crazy idea that had never been thought of before, and even though some...
Mastering Self Leadership
Self-leadership is characterized by the 8 c’s; compassion, clarity, curiosity, calmness, confidence, creativity, courage and connectedness. It is the ability to use your own personal strengths efficiently and effectively as well as having a proper understanding of...
Communication Within Teams
There is no doubting the importance of teams. As our jobs and skills become even more specialized, it often becomes necessary for people from different disciplines to work together. Companies are commonly doing multiple projects, and people can be a part of multiple...
Becoming a Transformational Leader
The concept of transformational leadership has been a growing trend in business ever since it was first proposed by leadership expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James MacGregor Burns in 1978. He said that transformational leadership occurs when leaders and...
How to be Conscious of Consensus
The internet has revolutionized how we connect with each other. Today, we are no longer limited by borders, geography, or proximity. In the business world, it has democratized how customers interact with organizations. Just think about how quickly some companies will...
Coaching: Don’t Send an Email!
Have you ever sent an email message and then regretted it after it was too late? A rule of thumb should be that whenever you need to have a difficult conversation or give feedback, you do it face-to-face, never send an email. Words in an email are powerful and can be...
20 Great Public Speaking Tips
Preparation is one of the most important factors in determining the success of your presentation! Every professional in the world must practise to standout in their field, from athletes to doctors, preparation is key, and your presentation should not be the exception....
What Are Mentors Meant For?
A mentor is so much more than just someone who passes on their skills and shows you the ropes. The right mentor can possibly change your life. It can be deceptively simple sometimes. A mentor can be anyone. It could even be you. Have you already taken somebody under...
What is Mindful Leadership?
Nowadays it is so easy to get caught up in the stress, noise, and excitement of the modern world. We are constantly being bombarded by billboards, commercials, and jingles all vying for our attention. Add to that our reliance on our smartphones and the nonstop status...
Strengthen Your Culture with EQ
Corporate Culture and Emotional Intelligence are two crucial elements of a successful business. Emotional Intelligence is having the ability to understand your emotions as well as others, and without it, it is impossible for a business to be successful. Corporate...
Unleashing Your Creativity With EI
MIT professor, Peter Senge, defines “creative tension” as the gap between the vision of the future - what could be, and the current reality - what is. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We would sit still and idle....
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