Emotional intelligence has become a hot topic in recent years with good reason! There is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that emotional intelligence has a significant impact on work performance. Employees who have a higher level of emotional intelligence tend to perform better, have better relationships, have better physical health and have better …
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lays our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Whatever your situation “finding the gap” or creating ‘space’ is an incredibly powerful way of making decisions or choices …
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What is it emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence can be defined, simplistically, as being aware of one’s own emotional reactions to situations and having the ability to recognise and understand those emotions in order to react more effectively in any given situation.Less simplistically, according to the 2009 Dictionary of Psychology, emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability …
97% of business owners surveyed saw innovation as being central to their future success with 45% planning to create new products and services this year. Innovation is to account for a quarter of Irish business revenues in 2015, according to a recent survey conducted by Irish marketing and innovation company Jump!. Remaining relevant in a …
Harvard Business review describes organisational culture as a system of shared assumptions, values and beliefs which govern how people behave in an organisation. Culture is learned behaviour and as leaders and executives shape culture how they behave and act has a huge impact on the culture that prevails. Culture is created by four distinct methods …
In 1983 Howard Gardener who was an American developmental psychologist, published a book called Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. In this book he argues that there is not one perfect way of measuring intelligence and that our brains are wired with a whole range of cognitive abilities. Gardener points out that a …