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Exceptional
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Transform Your Workplace with a Thriving Culture, High-Performing Talent, and Strong Emotional Intelligence
Transform your company with Six Seconds EQBiz.
In uncertain times, emotional intelligence is essential for supporting your people and creating value. With EQBiz, you can integrate emotional intelligence throughout your organization to strengthen performance and build a better company from the inside out.
Identify Solutions and Drive
Business Success
Organizations around the globe rely on EQBiz’s proven tools and methods to create thriving company cultures and improve business outcomes. Our research-backed solutions have helped companies like FedEx, Amazon and the United Nations identify and implement actionable strategies to overcome their most pressing challenges.
Get results with emotional intelligence.
Explore our major areas of expertise:
Leadership | Selection & Retention | Culture | Innovation & Change | Customer Loyalty
TALENT SECTION & HIRING
Revitalize the selection and hiring process ￫
Follow best practices to use emotional intelligence effectively in all aspects of the hiring and onboarding process.
leadership development
Strengthen relationships with key stakeholders ￫
At UCB, emotional intelligence training for managers resulted in 98% of participants improving relationships with clients and colleagues.
employee engagement
Double the number of highly engaged managers ￫
Read about the dramatic culture shift at Siemens Latin America following an emotional intelligence intervention.
creativity & design thinking
Build key skills to find creative customer solutions ￫
A major European insurance group leveraged emotional intelligence to unlock creativity, increase empathy, and create best-in-class customer service.
leadership development
Develop your next generation of leaders ￫
At the FedEx Global Leadership Institute, a six-month leadership development program for every new manager worldwide integrates emotional intelligence assessments, training and coaching.
future of work
Navigate the shift to hybrid work more effectively ￫
Hybrid work means more complexity, especially for leaders. Emotional intelligence is required.
employee engagement
Boost employee morale and productivity ￫
How did Westcomm go from 0% of employees scoring as Engaged to over 20%? Read the case study to find out.
leadership development
Fuel sustainable high performance ￫
One of the central challenges of managing and leading is to inspire and engage — to motivate — people to optimal performance. Here’s how.
The Ultimate Solution for
Emotional Intelligence at Work.
Measure What Matters.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s performance at every level.
Our normed and validated measures capture essential data on teams, leaders, and the organization as a whole, providing insight into critical questions such as: How engaged are your employees? How do leaders’ perspectives compare to everyone else’s? Do people trust each other? With Six Seconds, you can connect the dots between your results and the underlying factors driving them. Plus, our assessments are anonymous, easy to use, and backed by a global dataset
Build Capacity.
Empower your organization to reach its full potential with actionable insights.
With our easy-to-use survey, you can gather critical data in just 15 minutes. Then, within days, you’ll receive a fully integrated report tailored to your organization’s unique needs. Ask us about our EQBiz certification package that includes consulting hours to put emotional intelligence models and assessments in action inside your organization.
Access the Global Network.
Build connections to move your work forward.
We’ve spent over 25 years building a community of emotional intelligence practitioners that spans the globe. our network includes thousands of Six Seconds Certified Practitioners who are dedicated to leveraging the power of emotional intelligence to achieve optimal results. When you partner with us, you’ll have access to this extensive network, enabling you to build connections and move your work forward with the support of like-minded community.
The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence
A meta-analysis of the business value case for investing in emotional intelligence. Just fill out this form and we’ll send your free copy.
98% of participants reported improved quality of relationships at UCB.
27% decline in disengaged employees at Westcomm Pump, Canada.
Featured Articles
Solving the Biggest Problems: Daniel Shapiro on Emotional Intelligence and Negotiation
How to effectively resolve conflict? “Emotional intelligence is essential,” says Daniel Shapiro, Harvard International Negotiation Program.
Connecting with Patients: The Basic Ingredient of Care
As the pace of healthcare increases, empathy is becoming scarce. Yet research shows that empathy actually may save time – and save lives. The learnable skills of emotional intelligence may be an essential ingredient in supporting providers to meaningfully and effectively connect with patients.
Case: Stress, EQ, and Performance in Healthcare
by Lorenzo Fariselli, Joshua Freedman, Massimiliano Ghini MBA, Federica Valentini Publication Date: Feb 25, 2008 A press release and a powerpoint are available to accompany this paper, as well as a PDF version. Abstract As in many fields, healthcare is a complex and...
Where Do You Want The Ball To Go?
I’ve noticed something intriguing – if you have no idea what result you want, you’re unlikely to get it. My skills at pool/billiards are terrible, but I still can plan ahead and think about how I’m going to whack the cue ball to get a particular result. Isn’t this true of all of our interactions? If we decide “where we want the ball to go” in our meetings, conversations, interactions… then it’s much more probably we can make that happen.
The Paradox of Giving Yourself
It may seem like a paradox, but people who focus on giving feel and do better… and so do businesses.
Feel 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?