Mindful Diplomacy: The Case for Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Mindfulness practices have traversed from the world of yogis to the C-suite. Notable leaders, such as Aetna’s CEO Mark Bertolini, LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner, and Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow” Chade-Meng Tan, are driving a sea change in corporate culture …
Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: Dot Proux on Women’s Empowerment
Welcome to the first installment of Coaching for Emotional Intelligence, in which we will interview Faculty members and Meta-Coaches from the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification. Our first guest, Dot Proux, is an ICF-cre …
On Satya Nadella’s first day as CEO of Microsoft, he sent a letter to every employee. He started it by explaining what drew him to work at this company – and why he stayed. He shared his belief that his work at Microsoft could help make the world a bet …
Emotional Intelligence, the ability to tune in to our feelings and those of others, and to effectively manage emotions in ourselves and our relationships, is key to high performance and outstanding leadership. As it is often difficult to recognize our …
Whether you are a team leader or a member of a team, you will likely encounter situations in which you need to offer criticism or constructive feedback. While this can be difficult, giving feedback is a necessary part of leadership and being a member o …
How to Build Self-Management to Change Deeply Ingrained Behaviors
Several years ago I decided that I had enough personal baggage getting in my way to merit going to therapy. It was a wonderful and challenging experience, therapy. I had some major epiphanies about where some of my “less functional” behaviors come fr …
Research: Mindfulness May Increase Mental Performance at Work
During my study of the relationship between mindfulness and leader effectiveness, 100% of the leaders I interviewed (all having months or years of prior mindfulness training and practice) linked mindfulness to improvement in their personal and professi …
Most of my career has involved some form of providing leadership development solutions, including coaching executives from a wide range of industries. Soon after I began coaching, however, I noticed that regardless of how consistent I was in my approac …
Why Focus is a Foundational Skill for Emotional & Social Intelligence
“Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.” – Dan Goleman Our ability to focus is under siege now, more than at any time in recorded history. The level of distraction through technology and social communication is …
Inspirational Leadership Arises from a Working Understanding of ESI
The process of becoming an inspirational leader involves the development of multiple Emotional and Social Intelligence (ESI) competencies, each contributing to new realizations about how to lead more effectively. Emotional self-awareness and emotional …
