We are an international organization contributing to an emotionally intelligent world. A world where people everywhere have the skills and commitment to make empathic and wise decisions — to create peace and prosperity first in themselves, then with friends and relations, and finally between nations.
In 2006…
In addition to our offices in Singapore and Italy, new Six Seconds offices opened in China, Australia, and France. After a recent Certification in Portugal we have Certified Associates in 5 more countries, bringing the total to over 60. We launched the six-month Advanced Practitioner Training - we now have a growing team of highly skilled trainers, consultants, researchers, and coaches.
Together with Six Seconds Italia, we published the EQ Leadership report for Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Assessment (SEI). SEI is now available in English, Italian, Chinese, Indonesian, and Spanish. French and Portuguese are in research.
Data is now being collected on the SEI Youth Version - to be published in early 2007.
We worked with Strategies, a nonprofit supporting 24 of California’s Family Resource Centers to be sustainable - measuring health with the Organizational Vital Signs (OVS) tool. In 2006, OVS was also used by in manufacturing, shipping, banking, healthcare, and technology companies.
The Assessment of School Climate uses the same methodology OVS, this research-validated tool is now being piloted in schools internationally.
Our work continues with the US Navy - we’re helping them become more effective at leading change to support “Sea Power 21″ - the Navy’s transformational strategy. In 2007 we will be training approximately 800 Navy Chaplains serving the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard - our tools will reach thousands of sailors and marines and their families.
Our education team continues to support the Palo Alto School District, schools in Taos, New Mexico, and programs around the world. Singapore’s Ministry of Education has pilot project with our Self-Science ongoing at a high school there, and a new education partner called Thriving is preparing to bring Self-Science to more schools in the UK. In addition, we are supporting two wonderful nonprofits to integrate EQ into their programs: KidsTurn (for families affected by divorce) and Prepared 4 Life (helping teens succeed).
Continuing our commitment to produce highly effective and research-based learning tools, we published the Emotional Literacy Museum including 12 self-guided learning stations, and the EQ Action Log goal tracker. Our 2007 EQ Activity Calendar is on the shelves - with illustrations a by a teen-age artist in Australia; we’re giving away over 3000 copies to schools and organizations.
We’ve also rolled-out a 1-day version of our EQ Leader Curriculum and run three EQ Leader Certification trainings equipping trainers and consultants to use the program. Four more are scheduled in ‘07.
We published new research showing that emotional intelligence predicts 55% of important success factors, another White Paper documenting a link between optimism and performance management scores, and findings that age predicts only about 2% of the variation in emotional intelligence. Research on comparisons of EQ between Chinese and American business people made a made a 4-page article in Fortune China, and we’ve extended that research globally for new article. We launched a major study of the correlation between EQ, health, and success among university students, and we’ve got four Ph.D. students preparing projects using our tools.
Meanwhile the Institute for Organizational Performance continues to deliver training and consulting to world-class organizations.
Plus we updated www.6seconds.org and re-designed www.EQperformance.com — serving over a million pages of first-class content to over 300,000 visitors
Our major goals for 2007 include
- Publishing three White Papers and three studies on the benefits of EQ for health, education, and business.
- Establishing another long-term organizational project (like the Navy program).
- Launching an EQ Coach certification program for internal and independent coaches.
- Hosting a symposium of EQ for business leaders.
- Continuing to support and develop the remarkable world-wide network including holding NexusEQ conferences in Sandton, South Africa and in Huston, Texas.
