What exactly is emotional intelligence and why is it so important in the workplace? Emotional intelligence, or EQ for short, is the ability to be aware of and to be able to name and manage your own emotions. It is also the ability to be able to comprehensively understand the emotions of other people around...
Are you a quitter? Well, of course you are. You're not still working at your very first job, are you? And you probably aren't still with your first love. You likely changed schools, roommates, or even the city in which you live at some point, yes? In each of these scenarios you had to quit one...
Well, Careertopians, you really knocked my socks off. It's been a few weeks since our webinar on how Emotional Intelligence Predicts Career Success, and we're still getting feedback from it. Seems that folks liked the Self-Awareness Quiz, the Richard Sherman video, and the "Know Your Triggers" discussion. But the best part? I'd say the best...
No organization on the planet has more recruiters working for them then the U.S. Department of Defense. They have over 12,000 recruiters across 5,500 recruiting stations. However, the enlisting numbers show room for improvement. Between 1987 and 1996 the U.S. Department Of Defense sent 2.2 million recruits to basic training. That's after losing up to...
So....anger primarily occurs in your head, and happiness is felt all over your body? That's what scientists in Finland have determined based on research involving over 700 subjects from Sweden, Taiwan & Finland. In addition to mapping where our emotions are felt, the researchers also concluded that these emotional signatures are not subject to cultural bias,...
One third of American workers want to leave their jobs right now. Incidentally, one third of American workers also say that their bosses make them feel unmotivated and underappreciated. A bad boss can ruin the best job, and the demotivation caused by working for one of these people is directly damaging to the success of...
We like to think that every choice we make is based off of intelligent thought processes and beyond a doubt well chosen. Yet we may not be so aware of the irrational decisions we make quite freely. Dan Ariely is a Behavior Economist professor at Duke University. He found this idea of why we make...
