When you think of the gig economy, what comes to mind? Ride-sharing? Grocery delivery? The truth is, gig or freelance...
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5 Reasons EI Will Help You be a Better L&D Professional
Increasing importance is being placed on EI or soft skills – it’s particularly important to L&D professionals to...
EI the Essential Soft Skill for Learning Professionals
Here we are in the 2020’s and change remains the only constant for Learning and Development Professionals. The need...
“Soft Skills” are the Essential Skills
There is clearly great interest in the subject of “soft skills”. The term is searched over 100,000 times a year and...
Why would surgeons need emotional intelligence training?
Last week I had the honor of delivering our Science of Emotional Intelligence training to a group of experienced...
Training your corporate athletes
In the frenetic lead-up to the Christmas Holidays, I met with a senior Learning & Development executive at a major...
4th Quarter: Time to Hire for “Soft” Skills
According to monster.com, 36% of all hiring happens in the 4th quarter, which is really amazing since we generally...
Why women may be your most underutilized asset.
I have two older sisters who are doctors, two strong-minded daughters, a mother who is a child-psychologist and a wife...
Meetings = Brain Drain: The exception or the rule?
If this morning you suddenly asked your colleague to walk for eight hours straight without breaks; meaning they must...
Busting the Biggest Delegation Myth
When it comes to delegation most of us have heard the old saying “if you need something done, give it to a busy...
The High Performing Team: Choosing Status or Expertise
In November of 2009, during a team meeting, Ryan McClure, a young marketing manager at the Institute for Health &...
The Dreaded Performance Review
It’s that time of year again. The confetti from your New Year’s celebration has settled and you've returned to your...
Why most change efforts fail
Change is constantly occurring all around us; in all aspects of our lives. This is just the way of the world. We need...