The True Colours of Emotional Intelligence
I recently came across this article: When it comes to emotional intelligence, are you red, blue, green or orange? At the CIPS Annual Conference in London, both Andrew Newnham, group procurement director at ITV, and Elinor Williams, head of marketing procurement at Marks & Spencer described how they people according to their colour and adjusted their relationship approach. What I found particularly amusing in the article was the total inconsistency in the profiling methodology. Newnham class.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of the German People
My wife and I recently spent a week in Berlin as part of extended 5 week holiday in Europe. Berlin recently over took Rome to became the third most visited city in Europe after Paris and London. The whole history of Berlin is fascinating but I was quite struck how the Germans are facing their past Nazi history. The most revealing location is the Topography of Terror museum which is about the rise and actions of the Nazis. The museum is located on site of buildings which during the Nazi regime .....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence in Tough Conversations
I was recently sent a link to this video. Emotional Intelligence in Tough Conversations The presenter is Susan David Co-Director, Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital. I consider this Harvard Business School video as a great example of an emotional intelligence video that can cause more harm than good. In the video Susan lays out four steps to improve your emotional intelligence: 1. Recognise emotions 2. Use emotions to facilitate thinking 3. Understand the cause and the outcome of emot.....
Read MoreWhere are our core emotional drives located in our brain?
If there is one meme that occurs in the Emotional Intelligence world it is that the centre of our emotional drives is in the limbic system and in particular the amygdala. This Youtube video and others on the same page are typical examples of the meme in action. The Amydala Hijack was first popularised by Daniel Goleman in his defining book Emotional Intelligence. There have been some dissenting views including this blog by yours truly. One question raised in the blog still holds: While it is ea.....
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