What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a person’s ability to recognize, understand, manage, and reason with their emotions. It is a critical quality to have when it comes to interpersonal communication, not only in one’s private life but also in the workforce. Emotional intelligence involves using this emotional understanding to make decisions, solve…
Tag: Self Development
The Dos and Don’ts of Networking
The ability to network is not necessarily an innate quality. It is simply the process of developing mutually gratifying relationships with like-minded people and businesses. It is a skill that can be learned, honed, and developed with practice. Networking is a marketing tool—crucial to the success of you and your business that can take a…
Change Your Mindset, Enhance Your Success!
So often, we get stuck in a pattern of how we do things and find ourselves hesitant to try new things, to push ourselves out of our comfort zone, or to give something more effort than we ever have before. We often live by the mantra, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it,” or, “good…
Tips For Becoming a More Confident and Compelling Public Speaker
Whether we are talking in a team meeting, in a social setting, or in a presentation in front of an audience, we all must speak in public from time to time. The way we speak affects the way people think about us, so it is understandable that it often comes with nerves and anxiety. While…
7 Ways To Avoid Burn Out With Your Work
Our time is minimal, and our days go by so fast. Spend it with optimal energy and focus, and spend it doing your work in a way that you enjoy. While the work still needs to get done, there is nothing wrong with changing your routine and finding better ways to focus on your work…
10 Things You Can Do To Build a Meaningful and Productive Relationship With Your Co-Workers
Greet your co-workers daily. When given the opportunity, say hello to your colleagues. Small gestures like this can go a long way and plant the seeds for a friendship and respectful working relationship. Sometimes a simple smile is enough to brighten someone’s day. Making this effort won’t go unrecognized. Check-in with your team. Make it…
6 Tips for Improving Your Focus
With all the daily distractions, stresses, and to-do’s we have to get done, getting focused and “in the zone” for work can often be challenging. Knowing how to combat these obstacles and setting ourselves up for focus is key to the success of our work. We need to have the tools to get motivated and…
3 Ways To Win Friends and Influence People
Is one of your goals this year to improve your people skills? With so much human interaction gone digital in the last couple of years, it’s understandable that people may have digressed in the people skills department. Just like with a muscle, you can lose it if you don’t use it. Thankfully, it just takes…
Earn the Admiration of Others
Bohdi Sanders once said, “Your reputation is what others think of you; your character is what you truly are. Reputations can be manipulated; character can only be developed and maintained.” If you have ever held a leadership position, you know that it comes with a lot of feedback—good feedback, negative feedback, private feedback, public feedback,…
Three Tips for Habit Building
It’s been said that you’re 30 days away from the old you. If you don’t stay consistent with your habits, it’s just a matter of time before you revert to old ways. As we approach the new year, goals and resolutions are top of mind for many people. While it’s easy to pinpoint what you…