Screening Corporate Psychopaths
Corporate Psychopaths are increasingly becoming part of the Human Resources zeitgeist. Here are two articles that are examples of this shift: Is your boss a successful psychopath? and Is your workplace culture breeding narcissism? Our local WEA (Workers Educational Association) recently ran a 2 hour session on Psychopaths & Sociopaths on Film &in Everyday Life. One key theme in the workshop was that Corporate Psychopaths were suffering from the Anti-Social Personality Di.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of a Psychopath
There I was sitting in the doctor’s waiting room when I spied the article heading on the front cover “HOW TO SPOT A PSYCHOTPATH”. The article was a reprint; first appearing in The Guardian as an extract/book review of The Psychopath Test by John Ronson. The article discusses Tony, a person who had been convicted and sentenced for seven years for GBH. Tony had decided to fake insanity by copying movie characters such as the one Dennis Hopper played in Blue Velvet. He was successful i.....
Read MorePositive Psychology Redux Dr Martin Seligman
I have been fortunate to hear Dr. Martin Seligman, widely regarded as the founder of Positive Psychology, who was on the dais with the Dalai Lama at a Sydney conference in 2009. I was very interested in hearing Dr. Seligman as there is has been a very interesting discussion in the Linkedin Emotional Intelligence Network about the link between Positive Psychology and EQ. Probably the most useful of Dr. Seligman's comments was his definition of Positive Psychology which he defined in four steps......
Read MoreCan U B 2 positive? (Part II)
Following on from my previous blog I should say that I have done three seminars on Emotional Intelligence where the core technology was Salovey-Mayer model. One was organised by the Harvard Business School, the second by the University of Sydney and the third seminar was organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Sydney and has already been the subject of a previous blog can-you-be-too-positive? While all three seminars defined what EQ is and why it is important, all three seminars faile.....
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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