How to Manage Personalities in the Workplace
This is another IML Webinar – this time the presenter is Margo Lockhart and you can access the webinar here. The webinar begins with a quote from Louise Evans, “Stepping into someone else’s shoes and attempting to understand them is a great act of generosity.” This message suffers from several snags . It is not gramatically correct and while you can think you are being generous showing empathy to someone, the more important reason for being empathetic is that you will develop an emot.....
Read MoreThe #emotionalintelligence of the Female Psychopath and more
[caption id="attachment_1621" align="alignnone" width="300"] Gayle King the BFF of Oprah[/caption] Following on from my previous blog about corporate psychopaths, More thoughts on the Emotional Intelligence of Corporate Psychopaths, I was sent three more articles about psychopaths. The first of these was about female psychopaths, Why Female Psychopaths Are a Different Breed. It is a good article but I would have three criticisms. First it does not consider psychopathy as a spectrum. Second.....
Read MoreBuilding your self-awareness
Recently the Institute of Managers and Leader posted a new webinar ‘5 ways to Build your Self-Awareness’. The presenter was Brisbane-based Kerrie Anne Cassidy. While there were certain aspects of the webinar I would query there were also so very useful ideas. Self-Awareness is the first of Goleman’s Four Emotional Intelligence components which is sufficient reason for it to be important. Cassidy states that self-awareness is important because “Your cannot change the world, You can.....
Read MoreMore thoughts on the Emotional Intelligence of Corporate Psychopaths
As the special friend who reads my blogs knows one of the great strengths of the 7MTF/Humm model of temperament is that it incorporates corporate psychopaths in the model who are known as GoGetters or Hustlers. Recently two items of interest about corporate psychopaths came across my in-tray. The first was an article that appeared in the Research Digest of the British Psychological Society: The Stereotype Of The Narcissistic Only Child Is Widespread But It’s Wrong. It is a common miscon.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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