This article follows on from What Most Leaders Are Getting Wrong About Empathy, And Why That’s Dangerous In Times Of Change: Part 1 How To Stop Empathy From Destroying Organizations And Families As our organizations evolve into the 21st Century,…
The Experience Cube Explained In A Page
After the video interview I gave about the ‘Experience Cube’ model on Gavin Ingham’s Thrive Project site, Gavin asked me to share the core elements of the Cube in the comments. So I did – and before I knew it,…
Are You A Leader? Here’s The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Combat Anxiety In Uncertain Times
Here’s the most effective way you can reduce speculation and combat anxiety in your team during the coronavirus pandemic.
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…
Why Emotional Intelligence Is Important For Good Leadership
A useful reminder in this short interview with Daniel Goleman of why Emotional Intelligence is vital for good leadership. Also, why the most important strengths of emotional intelligence may not be the most visible ones, and why Self-Awareness is the most…
Why You Need To Put More Effort Into Empathy As A Leader
Or, How Power Turns You Into A Jerk – And How To Guard Against It The higher up the management ladder you get, the less you care about or even notice how other people feel. Most of us don’t have to…
How To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence 5: See Yourself As Others See You
Our self-awareness is necessarily limited. As Daniel Kahneman and other researchers have found, the reasoning that drives our actions is often hidden from our conscious minds. Our motivations are usually no clearer to ourselves than they are to others. Even if we…
How To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence 4: Emotions As Messages
Why You Should Listen To Your Emotions In a business world where we strive to be cool-headed and rational, it’s easy to treat emotions as things to be controlled and to detach from, so as not to cloud our judgement.…
How To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence 3: Get In Touch With Your Emotions
You probably read about the psychology study last year that asked people to sit alone with their thoughts, with no distractions, for just fifteen minutes. Surprisingly, many of the test subjects (67% of the men and 25% of the women)…
How To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence 2: What If You Don’t Like Yourself?
When I worked as a hypnotherapist in the 1990s, I occasionally had clients who were scared of going into trance, or even of relaxing. I think that in some cases at least this fear derived from the popular idea of…