By Dr. Travis Bradberry When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he recognized that emotional recovery must precede economic recovery. This especially is true for leaders who hope to stay ahead of the pack as the economy bounces back. The further you climb up the corporate ladder and the more people you are responsible …
By Dr. Travis Bradberry There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe they can make things happen, and those who believe things happen to them. The first group is convinced that the outcome of their lives and careers is more or less in their own hands, and they wouldn’t have it …
By Dr. Travis Bradberry Arguments, disagreements, and differences of opinion in their various forms are unavoidable facts of life. Our inability to see eye-to-eye is so central to the human condition that some clashes stem from our physiology more than our free will. A study published this month in Current Biology that was conducted by …
By Dr. Travis Bradberry These days, we’ve all been on the receiving end of a scathing email, as well as its mysterious, vaguely pejorative cousins. You know the messages to which I refer. They don’t need exclamation points or all caps to teem with anger and drip with sarcasm. Dressing someone down via email is …
Why do you find some people so difficult to get along with at work? Chances are your personalities are a poor match. Personality is often misunderstood. It defines people’s preferences and tendencies for interacting with the world around them. By the time we’re adults, this stable set of behaviors defines who we are and will …
By Nicole Wolfe and Dr. Travis Bradberry There you are, just sitting in the conference room minding your own business and waiting for the meeting to start. Then in it comes—a gray 10,000-pound trunk-swinging monstrosity. To your dismay, it plants itself firmly in the center of the room. The meeting begins as expected, but everyone’s …
By Dr. Travis Bradberry & Lac D. Su, M.S. If you can’t feel the electricity charging the atmosphere in your workplace, then you may have lost touch with your senses. Equal amounts of fear of another recession and hope for a brighter future have come together as an emotional storm. Emotions matter immensely. We collected …
By Dr. Jean Greaves and Rob Fullerton, M.S. Trust may sound like a lofty and universal ideal; in practicality however, choosing to entrust others and earning their trust can rapidly become very personal and emotional. Imagine yourself at work on a Friday afternoon rushing to finish a proposal for new client due by 5pm. At …
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. Research with more than 500,000 people worldwide has shown that: 90% of top performers are high in EQ. EQ is responsible for 58% of job performance, yet …
By Dr. Travis Bradberry Relationships are tough. We’re all looking for sound strategies to help keep our relationships healthy, happy, and productive. If you want to learn how to repair a damaged relationship, you first need to understand that frequency of conflict has no bearing on the quality of a relationship. Conflict is a normal …
