Anyone who runs emotional intelligence training courses for managers will recognise the type. The guy (and it usually is a guy) who has been sent on the course by his boss because, basically, he has the emotional intelligence of a treestump. He thinks the course is a waste of time – maybe he thinks others
A recent paper reported in the very useful BPS Research Digest blog suggests that people often make a bad impression because they indulge in counter-productive tactics for trying to make themselves look better. The paper, “Impression mismanagement: People as inept self-presenters” by Janina Steinmetz, Ovul Sezer, and Constantine Sedikides, lists four ‘strategies’ that people use
I haven’t written many posts for the ‘Emotional Stupidity‘ category of this blog, as I usually prefer to look at things in an appreciative way. Occasionally, though, something comes along which is so emotionally ****witted that it just demands a little rant… Today I received a nicely formatted email from ‘Newsle’, which said: Hi Andy,
I’ve been sent this infographic from the people at Learnstuff.com which presents some rather alarming findings about bad bosses. I hesitated for a while to post this because it’s so unremittingly gloomy, but in the end I thought that it’s worth posting because it conveys a message that if you’re unhappy or stressed at work,
