Emotional Intelligence and Gender Inequality – Redux
In September 2013 my blog on Sheryl Sandberg caused an uproar in feminist cyberspace. Sandberg’s most famous quote is “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.” My argument based on the Humm-Wadsworth model was that a 50/50 split is genetically impossible but a split of 2:1 is feasible. To say the feminists did not agree was an understatement. Recently Tracom published a blog Are Women Held Back By a Lack of Confidence? .....
Read MoreSheryl Kara Sandberg
Earlier this week I attended (along with about 1000 others) a talk by Sheryl Sandberg who is the chief operating officer of Facebook. Previously Sandberg was a C-level executive at Google for nine years and before that she served as chief of staff for Larry Summers when he was United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world and is reportedly worth US$1 billion. The talk took place in the Ballroom of t.....
Read MoreReview of the Oporto EQ Conference 19-22 July 2017
Twelve months ago my wife and I spent a very enjoyable four days in Oporto with her sister and brother-in-law. When I saw that the Sixth Biannual Congress on Emotional Intelligence, ICES 2017, was to be held in Oporto I resolved to attend. Somehow, I managed to get an abstract approved for a paper presentation so off I went to the conference as part of a month long visit to Europe. I attended for three days. The first day was a preconference workshop run by the President of ICES, John Pellitter.....
Read MoreThe Journey from Normal to Regulator
One of my recent workshop participants, Stuart Mercer of Kyora Landscapes, asked how the name change came about and I thought it would be worthwhile to write a blog about it. I learned the Humm-Wadsworth in early 1974 at the first sales training workshop every run by Chandler & Macleod. It was a moment of epiphany and I used very successfully in selling and management, particularly in the late 1970s when I combined it with TNT selling system. Eventually I wrote a book, Empathy Selling, publ.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.