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High emotional intelligence fuels successful individuals, families, communities, and organizations.
That’s why our mission is growing the world’s emotional intelligence, and why we developed the world’s most comprehensive system to measure and improve these essential skills. For over 25 years, we’ve seen firsthand the transformational impact of this work with people and organizations all around the world.
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Are you looking for proven, practical, globally relevant solutions for your clients, your business, or the world? For over 25 years in 150+ countries, we’ve supportive 10 million+ people to grow emotion skills. Pick your solution:
EQ Certifications to elevate your work and life
Bring the world’s best emotional intelligence tools and methods to your work – starting with you →
Solutions to build great organizations
Grow and sustain a winning culture by embedding emotional intelligence throughout the employee lifecycle →
Social impact to create a better future for all
Join us in supporting emotional wellbeing for youth globally, with initiatives like POP-UP Festival and Climate of Emotions →
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Right Speech by Eknath Easwaran
Karen McCown, Six Seconds' Founder, handed this article to me several years ago. It's stuck with me as a powerful set of guidelines for being impeccable with words. The children, Patty and I have discussed the "three gatekeepers" often over the last years; we started...
Listen or Tell – Reducing Family Conflict
How can we solve conflicts with our kids – when they don’t want to talk about it? A major EQ challenge.
The Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence
The Six Seconds model turns EQ theory into practice for your personal and professional life. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions — which is key to having a successful relationship with yourself and others. To provide a practical and simple way to learn and practice emotional intelligence, Six Seconds developed a three-part model in 1997 as a process – an action plan for using emotional intelligence in daily life.
Leaders Worth Following
What makes a leader into someone worth following? Is it their title? Their actions? Or maybe something more — something that is both rational and emotional.
Assent, 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...
Alone in the Parade
The drive to connect, to be accepted, is both glorious and brutal. It drives us to care and connect — and to engage in self-destructive behavior in a desperate bid to fit. The “thinness” of digital connection can’t actually be fixed by quantity — just as one can not get a healthy meal by eating a LOT of junk — but the thinness may drive people to want more.
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