Emotional Intelligence for Nonprofits
Support your people, measure your impact and build internal capacity for sustainable growth.
Elevate your programs and your people with emotional intelligence.
Strengthen your participants’ capabilities and build your organizational effectiveness with emotional intelligence assessments, training, and certification.
Do you want?
• Exceptional leadership
• Highly engaged staff
• Empowered participants
• Objective impact data
Developing emotional intelligence supports your long-term vision and the realization of your mission.
Magnify your impact and measure your progress.
Nonprofits all over the world use Six Seconds tools and methods to create cultures where people thrive. From UNICEF to Make-a-Wish to the Wangari Maathai Foundation, we partner with organizations to build sustainable high performance and make an even greater impact on the world.
Get the results you want with
emotional intelligence.
Explore our major areas of expertise.
Trusted Leaders
Equip leaders with the emotional intelligence skills they need to lead effectively.
Empowered Participants
Set your participants up for personal and professional success with critical emotional intelligence skills.
Engaged Staff
Validated Metrics
Measure the impact of your programs on emotional intelligence and critical life outcomes.
24% increase in key life outcomes at Twin Cities R!SE
4 pilot schools investing in emotional intelligence in Kenya
3.5M children learning SEL skills at POPUP Festivals
The complete solution for
emotional intelligence.
Assessments – Curriculum – Certification
Measure what matters.
There are two ways nonprofits do better work with Six Seconds tools and assessments: 1. Build internal capacity as an organization and 2. Measure the impact of a service or program. In its holistic workforce development program, Twin Cities R!SE both invests in emotional intelligence training for every trainer at its Personal Empowerment Institute and measures pre- and post- results for program participants, to measure changes in emotional intelligence and key life outcomes. All Six Seconds assessments are normed and validated with a global dataset, anonymous for users, and easy to use.
Build capacity.
Put insights into action to meet your goals.
All of our assessments are designed within models and frameworks that make the feedback practical and actionable. Our mission is growing the world’s emotional intelligence. Tell us about your most pressing needs and how we can help you solve them.
Take the survey in less than 15 minutes, get a fully integrated report within days, and start implementing solutions for your people.
Get certified.
Experience the power of Six Seconds at one of our world renowned certification courses. This is is a community unlike any other, but don’t take our word for it. Check out this testimonial and dozens of others:
“Six Seconds enriched my work through their powerful tools, structured framework, endless library and transformational trainings and certifications. Belonging to this community and being a network leader has inspired me both professionally and personally on my own self development journey.”
Ana Sofia Santos, Founder, Mind Over Matter
The Business Case for Emotional Intelligence
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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?