I was just reading an article, The Rise and Rise of Soft Skills, and it prompted me to […]
Personal Insight
I was watching a documentary the other night that reminded me of a key discovery of ‘The Dunedin […]
The Secret to Success for Your Children
Humans are emotional beings. Our emotional state influences all aspects of our life, our relationships, our performance, and […]
The Power of Emotions in Leadership Decisions
We are all born as unique individuals, then throughout our childhood and early adult years we are layered […]
The Cost of Being Yourself as a Leader
I was thinking this morning about the way society seems to be regulating itself down to the lowest […]
How Much Empathy and Compassion is Too Much?
Currently, there is a lot of media claiming that highly intelligent people are more successful and make better […]
Taking a Balanced View on EQ in Leadership
“Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself”. John Wooden There a millions […]
Why You Should Become Friends with Adversity
According to decision making expert Gary Klein; “managers and staff engaged in enterprises based on traditional business models […]
The Most Commonly Forgotten Critical Step in Decision Making
An interesting angle on emotional intelligence in evaluating risk – through the lens of climbing, by APU instructor […]
EQ Lessons from the skill of Climbing
The relationship between stress and performance is important to understand. We all have a stress ‘baseline’; a point […]
How to Find Your Optimal Level of Stress
We all know that constant change is the new norm; and being a ‘norm’ doesn’t make it any […]
Why We Should Stop Letting Hype Define Change
The first “State of the Heart” report on emotional intelligence using a big data approach is out, and […]
2016 Report Shows Emotional Intelligence in Decline
Most leaders have heard of, or been trained in active listening skills. They have also been trained in […]
How Do Jigsaw Puzzles Promote Authentic Listening?
What happens in the brain when we make decisions? What happens when we realise we have made a […]
Researchers Find Brain Warning Signal to Prevent Decision Mistakes
The recent launch of Facebook ‘Reactions’ has brought to light an interesting question – are our emotions being […]
Are Our Emotions Being Commoditised?
Mindfulness is the act of paying attention in the moment in a purposeful and non-judgmental way. It is […]
How Mindfulness Contributes to the Bottom Line
Many senior leaders have spent years pushing themselves up from middle management to gain recognition and promotion at […]
Ego – A Major CEO Block to EQ
Recently published research confirms our own empirical findings with our clients – with findings suggesting that 67% of […]