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- Emotional & Social Well-Being Supports Employee Engagement
The good news about our 2.0 world is organizations are finally getting it – that is they are recognizing that if they place their top value on building emotional and social well being for their employees and teams, they will gain the business and financial values of increased and sustainable productivity, better decisions, loyalty and best of all trust among their workforce. Ok, they get it, but how do they DO it? It isn’t hard, yet it does require intentional commitment and follow through. Fortunately there is a road map, the powerful tools of the EQi 2.0® for individuals and the TESI® for teams are well researched assessments designed to measure and provide the path to building emotional and social well-being. These provide the data to implement a specific plan of action for individuals and teams.Go to article...
- Can Virtual Teams Demonstrate Emotional & Social Intelligence?
When Manuel cut off Maria and implied her research was simplistic during the recent team webinar, most of the other team members checked out and started doing email. Maria wiped a tear away and swore to herself that she wouldn’t risk participating again. The Team Leader, who is a top notch engineer and is signed up for his first management training class next month, said nothing. This interaction cost the team and the organization in terms of engagement, trust, and willingness to take risks with one another, yet nothing may ever be done about it.Go to article...
- Social Intelligence Strengths
Social Intelligence (SI) is gaining considerable play in today’s conversations but what is it? Does it matter to you, your team, your organization? Yes! Social Intelligence is measured by your ability to persuade, influence, connect – in short to lead a meaningful life connecting with others and applying your skills to match your values. Social Intelligence matters from a soft skill, hard skill and every kind of skill perspective! Prove it you say? Here goes ….Go to article...
- Acting with Collaborative Intelligence: Your 10 Step Guide
Collaboration is a result of people working together to reach a mutual answer to a challenge or opportunity. As our world becomes more integrated and boundaries become more blurred the need and desire to collaborate is heightened. We see this on the internet, such as with Wikipedia, in organizations of all sizes and shapes, such as the better efforts at the United Nations and in performance goals for individuals and leaders, such as the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ’s) that leaders in the federal senior executive service are to meet. Go to article...
- Leadership Development: The Four Corners of Empathetic Assertiveness
Successful leaders exhibit skills that may look natural and easy yet are truly the result of paying close attention and being responsive to the whole environment. To do so, they learn to be emotionally literate and employ a complex set of skills in ways that may seem innate though in fact are the result of a willingness to work, learn and improve. Go to article...
- Emotional Sustainability Practices
To develop the truly effective solutions that today's complex world demands, our emotional strength and resourcefulness has to be sustainable! Because right now as we are just about to resolve the current crisis, new problems are germinating, others are sprouting up and some tricky challenge has matured to the point it is just about to tap us on the shoulder and insist, "What about me??"Go to article...
- Building Emotional Sustainability
The crisis conditions we see in the planetary environment today are a direct reflection of the crisis conditions we find in the workplace. No oil is spilled, no dangerous levels of carbon dioxide are generated, no toxic chemicals are manufactured, no resources are extracted, no investment vehicles are designed except as the result of people working together to get as much value from their efforts as possible. Here's the problem: our determination of what is valuable has been distorted by our perception of lack and the fear that this occasions in us at the deepest unconscious levels. The answer is embedded in using all our forms of intelligence. One of the most powerful is emotional and social intelligence.Go to article...
- Managers & Motivation
Colorado's new Governor, John Hickenlooper, states that "moods are viral" and a good one "allows people to put down their defenses." He's right! Managers and supervisors have tremendous influence on the mood in the workplace. Here's a way to take your team's temperature. Go to article...
- Mining for Social Intelligence
Chi! Chi! Chi! Le! Le! Le!! Inspiration, open heart, courage, hope. Countless emotional terms are associated with the October 14th, 2010 rescue of the 33 Chilean miners who have a lot to teach us about emotional intelligence. Let us reflect on the many emotions and experiences as guides into our own self-awareness. While the 33 miners survived and learned to thrive without most that we take for granted, we’ve been above ground with the sun, water, wind, earth, loved ones, and easy access to great varieties of daily experience. How happy have you been during that time? How grateful? We invite you to inquire personally by asking how well you’ve lived during those 69 days. Go to article...
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