You’ve read a book on emotional intelligence or you’ve attended a workshop and you liked it. You realize that these competencies and skills can help you move forward in your career, be a more effective leader, make better decisions and develop stronger interpersonal relationships. So what’s next? What is the best way to learn and [...]

Like any human interaction meetings are filled with non-rational and emotional dynamics. Adding your Emotional Intelligence “tool kit” to your logical and practical tips to run a meeting can make a big difference to your meeting outcome. As Ron Ashkenas articulates in his article The Hidden Side of Meetings, “Managers at every level almost universally [...]

Meditation can help you enhance your emotional intelligence, especially your self- awareness, which is the foundation of EI. Meditation was developed within the framework of religions in the past, but nowadays meditation practices have been taken out of the religious context and their benefits are available to everyone. So how does meditation work? Ever wondered [...]

Self-Expression is another composite of the EQ-i framework. You can look at it as the flip side of the Self-Perception, and it is about how we choose to express to the outside world what goes on inside ourselves. Self-Expression includes three competencies: Emotional Expression, Independence and Assertiveness. This post is about Emotional Expression and I’ll [...]

    Self-Perception is the most foundational and the least visible part of Emotional Intelligence. This is about our inner world and how we perceive and view ourselves, how motivated we are, the meaning we attach to what we do. There are three competencies included in this composite and they are Self-Awareness, covered in this [...]