Emotional Intelligence 4 Change

Emotional intelligence can be used in recruitment as it can give you an insight about a person’s attitude, personality and behaviour.  It can tell you what abilities a person has to control their emotions and how this affects their approach to work.  For example, a manager may lack assertiveness, the emotional management skills and the social skills to deal with frustrations.  This means that this manager may throw tantrums or become aggress...

Daniel Pink presents a new focus on motivation in his book "Drive - The surpising truth about what motivates us"

When it comes to motivation, there’s a gap between what science knows and what business does.  The view of motivation within the current business operating system is built around external, carrot-and-stick motiv...

In conjunction with RSVP Design, EI4Change has produced a toolbox to support training, personal development and coaching around resilience. 

Images of Resilience contains multiple copies of 16 carefully designed images drawn in an attractive cartoon style.  The images are metaphors, representing a range of experiences and emotions linked with the theme of RESILIENCE.  Th...

There is a very large, diverse and commercial market of psychometric testing.   Some questionnaires are designed to look at an individual's ability to cope with pressures and stress and demands, etc.and, using these, it is possible to measure and recruit based on resilience.

Windle, Bennett and Noyes (Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:8) conducted ...

Personality assessments are very useful tools whether you are looking for a new role or you are looking for somebody for a new role.  They can give some interesting insights into motivation, management, communications, relationships, etc. that are not immediately evident.

Whilst people are different, everyone has a value with special strengths and qualities. Everyone should be treated with care and res...

Team working has a vital part to play in helping organisations achieve their objectives.  To succeed a team needs the right proportion of skills, experience and perspectives.

A team is a group of individuals that share a common aim and where the jobs and skills of each member fit in with those of others.  However, not only does there have to be “fit” in relation to skills and technical...

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory was first published in 1983 and quickly became recognised as a model to understand and teach many aspects of human intelligence, learning style, personality and behaviour.

Intelligence is often defined as our intellectual potential - something we are born with, something that can be measured and a capacity that is difficult to change. ...

Coaching skills, methodologies, and principles offer another perspective to organisations looking for effective deployment of the skills, knowledge and capabilities of their people, managers and executives.

Best practice has demonstrated that an enabling approach provides a positive environment for such an initiative.  Without senior managers who value, embrace, support and provide resources for coach...

What is it exactly that makes a good leader?  This question alone usually stimulates huge debate, as each of us will have our own ideas. 

Who do you admire as a leader?  This could be someone you know personally, or someone you know through the media. 

What is it about this person that you believe makes them a good leader?  A...

Emotional Intelligence has become a vital part of how today's leaders meet the significant challenges they face to give them a competitive edge.

Today's workforce does not accept the autocratic style often adopted by leaders following historical models of leadership.  Leadership has had to evolve to match a growing sense of democracy and independence in the workfor...