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Emotional Insights for Leaders: Daniel Pink’s 3 Drivers of Motivation
How can you harness the power of emotions to fuel sustainable motivation – for yourself and your team? Try these activities today.
Read MoreEngage Intrinsic Motivation
Engage Intrinsic Motivation is one of the core competencies in the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence. It’s defined as being energized and driven by personal values and commitments rather than by external forces.
Engage Intrinsic Motivation in the Six Seconds EQ Model
What is “intrinsic motivation,” why does it matter, and how can it be enhanced? Emotions are the key… here’s a summary of the science & practice of emotional intelligence for lighting the fire within.
Read MoreEmotions for Motivation: 6 Tools to Fuel Energy
What makes motivation… motivating? Three powerful questions, a free worksheet, and powerful ways to strengthen energy from within (which we all need, especially when work/life feels challenging)
Read MoreThe Motivation Iceberg: 3 Tips to Unleash Motivation
How do you use emotional intelligence to fuel lasting motivation? The Motivation Iceberg is a simple, clear model for understanding how to motivate – even in WFH during a pandemic.
Read MoreDoes Hybrid Work Have to Be the Worst of Both Worlds?
Here are 3 tips for using empathy and emotional intelligence to create remote work policies that prioritize employees’ wellbeing.
Read MoreActive Listening as a Leader: 4 Ways to Use Emotional Intelligence To Listen Well
Exceptional leaders have mastered the art of deep, active listening. Here are 4 practical tips to use emotional intelligence to listen well.
Read MoreMotivational Interviewing: 8 Questions to Ask Clients to Motivate Change
Motivational interviewing is a communication technique that engages people’s intrinsic motivation to make changes – with powerful results.
Read MoreConnect to Your Values with This Art Project
Read MoreIlluminate: 3 Steps to Acting on Your Values
We all make hundreds of decisions a day; do they align with your values? This week’s Illuminate gives you three practical steps for identifying your values, putting them into practice, and making your life more aligned with your values.
Read MoreIlluminate: Where Do You Want to Go?
Take a moment to clarify your (emotional, professional, physical) destination + represent it in a fun way.
Read MorePutting the SDGs Into Action With EQ
If you could teach millions of people and raise their awareness & ability to advance the SDGs, what would you choose to teach?
Read MoreDecision Making: Using EQ to Make Better Decisions
Six Seconds’ State of the Heart report identifies the 3 components of emotional intelligence that predict good decision making. Here is the story of three EQ practitioners who have struggled, and succeeded, to cultivate each one.
Read MoreHow to Practice Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Choice (updated for 2018)
Want to know how to practice emotional intelligence? Here are 10 expert tips from our worldwide network to choose yourself more effectively.
Read MoreFour Steps to A More Intentional Life
A life coach shares her approach to practicing a life full of vision, meaning, and treasure hunts.
Read MoreTime to redefine “engagement”?
What does ’employee engagement’ really mean? And is that enough to drive the results we need?
Read MoreCase Study: Emotional Intelligence for People-First Leadership at FedEx Express
What happens when new managers receive emotional intelligence training? The six-month program is delivering significant improvements in EQ skills — tied to dramatic increases in influence, quality of life, and decision making.
Read MoreThe Way You Are
Is there a way to be unconditionally loving, and also to hold high expectations? As parents, can we love our kids “as they are” AND help them be better?
Read MoreFeel the Power: Flexing EQ
The use of power is central to our interactions as leaders, coaches, parents, and change agents. To be more effective, emotional intelligence will help us understand and tune up our own use of power and the ways people react to that. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of different forms of power. All of these “work” in some sense. If they generate certain desired there are “benefits.” At the same time, each produces unwanted side effects, called “costs.” What are some of the forms of power that you have, and that you exercise? What happens when you exercise these different forms of power? What price do you pay for each such use?
Read MoreAssent, Dissent, Descent
Recently… I told Emma (8-year-old daughter) she needed to get dressed to go. Instant protest, heel-dragging, power struggle. Yet we were going to do something she wanted! I observed a new cross-functional team starting up. The person assigned to schedule the first meeting asserted, “Since no one else wants to, I will chair the team.” […]
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