Review 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 MoreThe EQ tide is turning
A very interesting article Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite by Northeastern University Psychology Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was recently published in Nautilus Magazine. The article demolishes two of the key assumptions of Emotional Intelligence: The first is that it’s possible to detect the emotions of other people accurately through facial expressions. The triune, or three-layer brain, has no basis in reality According to Barrett numerous scientific studies have confir.....
Read MoreContrasting Views About Success
On 4 August 2017 Christian Jarret wrote an interesting blog for the BPS Research Digest: We have an ingrained anti-profit bias that blinds us to the social benefits of free markets. The blog summarised a paper that claimed most of us have an instinctual anti-profit bias. We view for-profit companies and industries – upon which capitalism is based – with inherent distrust, assuming that the more profitable they are, the more harm they do to society. Through seven separate studies involving hu.....
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.