EQ and your Bottom Line

June 29th, 2009

Distinction: EQ is not drama. (things becoming more emotional)  It is the opposite.
 
We are all draining some amount of revenue because of a less than perfect score on our emotional intelligence.
 
Oh, man, here she goes again with the fluffy stuff.  Emotional Intelligence?  You’ve got to be kidding.  I have a deadline to meet…no time for touchy-feely talk [...]

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Managing Stress in the Workplace

June 15th, 2009

As leaders, how can we promote and encourage our workforce to stay productive in these crazy and stressful times? Stress is defined as a general and non-specific response to a “threat”.  That response to a threat frequently appears in the form of fear, disengagement, diminished cognitive ability, lack of creativity, loss of emotional control, fatigue, and eventually chronic pain and illness. The source of [...]

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How much is too much? Internet Use in the workplace

June 9th, 2009

FaceBook?  Are you kidding me?  Who’s got time for that?
Let’s get real.  Using official Facebook statistics (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics), over 100 million users login to Facebook every day . Over 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. This means an average user spends 35 minutes on Facebook, before logging off. It’s not going away.  Plenty of people [...]

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