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How to Become a Resilient Leader and Adapt Through Challenges
When tariffs spike overnight, supply chains falter, or markets shift unpredictably, your team doesn’t need a plan—they...
How Emotional Intelligence Can Improve Team Performance
The workplace can often feel like a pressure cooker with deadlines, high expectations, and the need for constant...
The Challenges in Maintaining a High-Performance Culture
A high-performance culture isn’t built on goals alone, it depends on leaders having the tough, Last 8% conversations...
Why Emotional Intelligence is Essential for Organizations Today
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Insights from IHHP Experts Greer Campbell and Marcie Stern At IHHP, we believe...
Why Employees with High Emotional Intelligence Thrive
Emerging AI technologies continue to revolutionize the business landscape, but the critical importance of emotional...
Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety
The concept of psychological safety within teams has emerged as a cornerstone of innovative and high-performing...
In the Flow of Work: A Strategic Approach to Team-Based Learning
The traditional methods of corporate training are continually being challenged by more dynamic, integrated and modern...
Innovating Your Workplace for the Future of Business
There are a number of trends impacting organizations today such as AI, remote and hybrid work environments, and a need...
Beyond the Buzzword: Real-World Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategies
Diversity, equity, and inclusion – a concept that has become more prevalent and important for businesses today. In...
CHROs: Stop Getting in the Way of Your Culture
Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) play a pivotal role in shaping organizational culture and driving the success...
Top Strategies to Boost Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a concept that should be well-known to all leaders – it is a factor that can make or break the...
How Leaders Build a High-Performing Culture
In the dynamic realm of business, leadership is not just a role but a profound influence that molds organizational...
What is a Family Team Culture? (and 3 Reasons Why They Are Almost Always Dysfunctional)
In the quest for organizational excellence, the allure of a "family" team culture often emerges as a seemingly idyllic...
Six Strategies to be Effective in Last 8% Conversations
One of the biggest challenges faced by everyone across all organizational levels, including CEOs I work with, is...
8 Ways to Become a Last 8% Culture
Your competitive advantage over competitors is not your strategy or product. If they are any good, they will be...
The Pitfalls of a Transactional Culture: Why Your Organization Needs a Shift
Is Your Organization's Culture Holding It Back? In today's rapidly changing business landscape, an organization's...
A Silent Crisis: Is Fear Silently Hurting Your Organization?
When considering the types of organizational cultures, one of the most prevalent is what we call the "fear-based"...
The Dangerous Lie of ‘Nice’ Organizations: Why Your Family Culture is Doomed to Fail.
When it comes to organizational culture, the “family” culture stands out as a unique blend of warmth, connection, and...
4 Reasons to Invest in Developing Your Leaders
Developing leaders is an investment in the future of any organization. Strong leaders are critical to achieving...
5 Ways to Win with Culture
Organizational culture refers to the set of values, beliefs, and practices that shape the behavior of individuals and...
Resilience: The Number 1 Skill You Need to Overcome Adversity
What exactly is resilience? And why is it so important when we face change, adversity or any kind of challenging...
3 Skills You Need To Manage Change Successfully
“It’s not the strongest species that survives, not the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to...
How To Solve Any Work Conflict Skillfully and Effectively
Having good relationships at work matters to you, but you are experiencing conflict with a person on your team. It’s...
How EQ Drives Psychological Safety
Cranla Warren, IHHP’s organizational psychologist and expert in Emotional Intelligence, recently had the opportunity...
5 Benefits of Expressing Gratitude in the Workplace
This year, it has been easy to focus on the challenges we have faced. In January, it looked like the pandemic was...
Meet IHHP’s DEI Webinar Panel: Carrie Elrick and Rhoda Lalog
IHHP is proud to have hosted Rhoda Lalog and Carrie Elrick in our recent livecast, “DEI, Women & the Workplace”....
DE&I: A Way of Working, Thinking, Being, and Thriving
IHHP’s Organizational Psychologist, Dr. Cranla Warren, recently sat down for an in depth conversation about diversity,...
EQ, Lifelong Learning, and High-Performing Women
IHHP recently presented a livecast that I had the privilege of hosting with the storytellers behind "The Collective...
Emotional Intelligence, Compassion, and High-Performing Women
IHHP recently presented a livecast that I had the privilege of hosting with the storytellers behind "The Collective...
Emotional Intelligence, Connection, and High-Performing Women
IHHP recently presented a livecast that I had the privilege of hosting with the storytellers behind "The Collective...
Emotional Intelligence, Tenacity, and High-Performing Women
IHHP recently presented a livecast that I had the privilege of hosting with the storytellers behind "The Collective...
3 Conversations You Must Have This Year
Many of us were looking forward to the end of 2020, a relentlessly volatile and stressful year. We would have hoped...
Listen to What Women Say, Not How They Say It
For many women in the workplace, this feedback about their performance and conduct is all too familiar: You are not...
So, You Want To Become an Ally: A Personal Perspective
So, you want to become an ally. Be aware that it will require you to suspend judgement and to get real about the...
Are You A Different Person Now Than Pre-Covid? Feeling Burnt Out?
We all want to be good people. Show up every day with a great attitude, strive to have a positive impact and be a...
Three Human Capital Trends to Expect in 2021
Now that 2021 is here, for what human capital trends do Talent Development leaders need to prepare? Before 2020, the...
Using the Science of Goal Setting to Build Your Best Life
Life is not easy. As we go about trying to be successful, happy, and productive, we face many challenging situations....
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Heart of Justice
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Justice Ruth Bader...
Overcoming the Obstacles of Authenticity
Your organization is facing many tough decisions: how to return to the office, how to best respond to systemic racial...
Preparing for the New Gig Economy with Emotional Intelligence
When you think of the gig economy, what comes to mind? Ride-sharing? Grocery delivery? The truth is, gig or freelance...
Pressure Solution #7 – Recall You at Your Best
Flash back to your previous successes A lack of confidence in high-pressure situations is common to many of us, so...
What We Get Wrong About Empathy and How We Grow It
There are three common misconceptions about empathy: It makes us soft, unable to make tough calls, or be a strong...
Pressure Solution #6 – Recognize That You Are Worthy
Do you recall a pressure moment in which you didn’t do as well as you hoped? That was you in the past. Today is a new...
Pressure Solution #5 – Anticipate, Anticipate, Anticipate
The What If Game The rules are simple. Select an upcoming high-pressure situation. Let's say it's giving an important...
The Brain Science of Anxiety: One Crucial Insight to Set You Free
Do you sometimes feel you’re not doing enough? That you should be doing more? Do you feel on edge, nervous, unable to...
Pressure Solution #4 – Focus on Your Mission
There is probably no easier pressure solution to use before and during a pressure moment than this: FOCUS ON YOUR...
Pressure Solution #3 – Downsize the Importance
This pressure solution is spurred by the well-documented fact that the more important we appraise an event to be, the...
Pressure Solution #2: Multiple Opportunities
In our previous pressure solution, Befriend the Moment, we referred to research that indicated people tend to view...
Pressure Solution #1: Befriend the Moment
Choose Pressure Do you see high-pressure situations as threatening or challenging? Do you embrace such moments, or do...
How to Manage Pressure in These Challenging Times
People across almost all industries and geographies are feeling a huge amount of pressure today. For many, there is...
How Emotional Intelligence Training Can Impact You
Emotional Intelligence has quickly become one of the most important skills for the decade. If you’re considering...
The Last 8%: You Are a Good Person Wanting to Do Great Things
You have an aspiration to build a good career, be part of a team that is doing something worthwhile and be a provider...
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 for 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...
Empathy IS a skill that can be learned
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is one of the Top 10 skills that will be demanded for work roles in 2020 as identified by...
How to do more with less
Recently, I was at a function and ran into an old friend who runs a small business. Pleased to see a familiar face...
The value of listening vs. only hearing
If you ask most people if they are good listeners, they will confirm that they listen to everyone. What they really...
“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 CEOs Need Emotional Intelligence
Being a CEO is really hard. Being a CEO with emotional intelligence is a lot less hard - and a lot more effective....
What Twenty Years Of Asking People About Exceptional Leaders Has Taught Us
Emotional Intelligence is the defining characteristic of exceptional leaders Over the last twenty years our...
Are you ready for the future workplace?
The workplace is changing profoundly. Artificial intelligence and automation are expanding to manage more mental and...
The future of learning…is here
The learning and development industry has been poised on the edge of change for many years. Suddenly, it’s here....
5 Reasons You Need to Get Certified to Teach Emotional Intelligence
The more that the concepts of Emotional Intelligence become ingrained in an organization, the better able its people...
Why Most CEO’s Lack Self-Awareness and What To Do About It
A recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article highlighted a research study in the Journal of Clinical and Social...
4 Mistakes CEO’s Make in Difficult Conversations
One of the most important things a CEO must do is have skillful difficult conversations – holding people accountable,...
The 2 Patterns of Difficult Conversations Gone Wrong
When strong emotions and avoidance are getting in the way: How to recognize and break patterns. David was frustrated....
How Empathy Created $250 Billion in Market Value for Microsoft
Original publication: HR.comOriginal publication date: December 6, 2017 I read with great interest a recent Fast...
Four Lessons CEO’s Have Taught Me
Original publication: CEO Magazine Original Publication date: November 6, 2017 In my role at the Institute for Health...
Are Limiting Beliefs Affecting Women in Your Organization?
Original Publication: The CEO Magazine Original Publication Date: September 29, 2017 There are many factors that go...
3 Signs That You’re Not Managing Pressure Well
In today's high-pressure world, you likely feel as if you are on the line every day. More than ever before, you feel...
How CEOs Can Perform Better Under Pressure
After Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy destroyed property and lives, New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo established...
Being A High Potential: The pressure of expectation
Martin Murray was chosen to be on the ‘high potential’ list at his Fortune 100 firm. An athlete in his youth, he had...
How to Boost Sales Performance
Salespeople are under enormous, unrelenting pressure. They’re expected to meet (or exceed) sales goals, and are often...
Stress and Pressure: The good, the bad and the difference
Original Publication: AHRI.com Original Publication Date: January 4, 2016 It’s common to hear people around the office...
Doing More With Less: How to Avoid the Task Trap
The Institute for Health and Human Potential conducted a survey for our New York Times bestselling book, Performing...
Performing Under Pressure:
Focus on the things you can control
No one truly thrives under pressure, whether it’s created by urgent deadlines or the need to perform in front of a...
Driving Cultural Change
The Institute for Health and Human Potential (IHHP) worked with a large financial institution that believed low...
6 Steps to Performing Under Pressure
Do you believe that you perform at your best when under pressure? When a deadline is rushing at you, the adrenalin is...
What CEO’s need to do to include the women on their teams
Most of us are familiar with Sheryl Sandberg’s idea that women need to “lean in”, which is a great metaphor for women...
Leaders Must Have ‘Edge” to Drive Change
This article is the third in the “All Change is Personal” series looking at three traps that leaders need to manage in...
3 Common Mistakes made when Managing Disruption
In September 1961, a woman from Queens, NY, called a group of friends over to her house and confessed that eating...
Women And The Second Layer Of Pressure: It’s global!
I never knew there was a second layer of pressure that women face that I don’t. I have the first layer – deadlines,...
No Woman Left Behind: The Importance of Being a Female Leader
Over the last 18 years, I have been a leader in various organizations. As my roles became more senior, I began to feel...
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...
Change these Six Behaviors and Increase your Emotional Intelligence
Research at the Harvard Business School has shown that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – the ability to manage our own...
Your Female Leaders Don’t Believe You Have Confidence in Them
According to a recent survey from the Institute of Health and Human Potential’s Women Under Pressure initiative, only...
5 Strategies to Handle the Pressure of a Job Interview
Most people prepare for job interviews by doing background research, considering what questions might be asked and...
A Woman Under Pressure
I am a woman, and I am under pressure. There...I said it. Admitting that I am under pressure makes me feel vulnerable....
The Physiology of Crisis
Early in my career I was put into a leadership position. Great, right? Not so fast. With degrees in Mathematics and...
The Irony of Pressure
One of the major findings in our book, Performing Under Pressure, and one that surprises many of the people we train...
The Last 8% Conversation
Here is a distinct pattern we see over and over again in the leadership development training programs we run: when...
Helping Leaders Perform Under Pressure
IHHP’s Coaching Process: Helping Leaders Perform Under Pressure By John Doan and Michael Bell “Learning and innovation...
Pressure Changes Everything
Why Managing Pressure is the New Competitive Advantage at Work What do you do when you’re under pressure? How does it...
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...
Why Don’t We Hold People Accountable?
In US hospitals today, one in twenty patients receives the wrong medication. Three and a half million patients per...
The Expectation Effect
We are all generally very good at heaping expectations on ourselves. Whatever the expectation, we tend to focus on...
Pressure – Through the Eyes of an Olympian
What if I mess up? This was the question that kept swarming around in my mind during the weeks leading up to my first...
Checking Assumptions in Difficult Conversations
Emotional Intelligence has many applications, one of the most helpful being in the area of having important...
What is EQ?
Defining Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional Quotient (EQ) Emotional Intelligence, or EI, describes an ability...
Developing Leaders
Developing Your Leaders Without Throwing Your Training Dollars out the Window! In the course of my travels, I meet...