Emotional Intelligence: Core Emotions and Five Factor theory
In mid-June of 2014, the famed psychologist and emotions expert Paul Ekman sent a survey to 248 researchers active in his discipline. He achieved a moderately high response rate of 60%. The idea was to see what the fast-growing field actually agreed upon in interpreting the scientific evidence on the nature of emotion. He recently published an article about the results: What Scientists Who Study Emotion Agree About The survey showed that at least one notion is solid: Universal emotions .....
Read More5 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace???
I recently came across this blog by Ken Sterling: 5 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace The article is similar to many in the emotional intelligence area and contains what I believe are many of the same mistakes. Let us look at the suggestions that Ken Sterling makes: Avoid the Negatives – Starting with your Own The intermingling of emotional intelligence with positive thinking is perhaps the most common mistake made by many supposed EQ experts. The typica.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence and the Autistic Spectrum Disorder
My eldest grandchild started school several weeks ago. For the past five years one question that keeps reoccurring in family discussion is whether the child is autistic. Given the number of articles in the various media outlets about autism it is not surprising that many parents are concerned about it. Recently a book review in The New Yorker, Seeing The Specturm discussed a new history of autism. According to the article autism was discovered separately during the Second World War by L.....
Read MoreThe Smiling Face of Anger: Emotional Intelligence in Action
One of my favourite parts of Inside Out is when Joy and Sadness are not at Headquarters leaving Disgust, Fear and Anger are at the control console. As Anger comes up with various ideas such as stealing the credit card of Riley’s mother, he puts on a wicked smile. Recently Inc published an interesting article about how Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Just Showed a Completely Different Side of Emotional Intelligence when during a match he disagreed angrily with a referee’s call and wh.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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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.
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