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…
Recent Evidence-Backed Insights On How Not To Come Across As A Jerk – And What’s Behind Them
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…
Emotional Stupidity Watch: Newsle
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…
Is your boss insane? And what to do about it
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…
Emotional stupidity watch: muppets in the workplace
From The Scotsman 12 August 2004: Muppet greetings fail to fire up staff by James Doherty IT WOULD strike David Brent, the fictional boss from hell, as a brilliant management idea: instead of greeting staff with the usual “good morning”,…