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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 […]

By Dr. Jean Greaves Juggling the competing priorities of your work and personal lives leaves little time to focus on bettering yourself. Where should you focus your efforts to make the most progress in the limited time you do have? Beyond the pace at which you learn (your IQ), there are two fundamental contributors to

Work stress is as old as work itself. And so are the ways we respond. You can just imagine the first cave-clan’s leader spending sleepless nights counting stalactites, worried about how he was going to break the news to Ug and the other hunters that the decreasing wild beast population meant they were going to

Rolling Stones guitarist Bill Wyman was once asked, “What is the question you get asked the most?” Wyman replied, “That’s the question I get asked the most.” At TalentSmartEQ®, the question we get asked the most is simple: “What is considered ‘normal’?” The question is usually phrased, “What are the average emotional intelligence scores in

By Dr. Travis Bradberry Having emotional intelligence (EQ) won’t make you successful. But, using emotional intelligence habitually will help you achieve your goals. Today, it’s well known that personal and professional success are deeply intertwined with emotional intelligence. But logically understanding how emotional intelligence works and actually putting it to work for you are as

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 Dr. Travis Bradberry   When was the last time you were able to fully exhale and enjoy what’s truly important in life? I’m talking about the kind of deep reflection that sends tingles down your spine, deflating the size of your daily hassles. For me, it’s the feeling I get when I arrive home

By Dr. Travis Bradberry & Lac D. Su, M.S. While the economy continues to hold its head above water due to dumb risks some of the world’s most powerful companies have taken, TalentSmartEQ® researchers decided to take a close look at what separates the good risk-takers from the bad. Why do some leaders take careless

By Susan DeLazaro, M.S. Things have been tense in the office for awhile now, but last Friday, it came to a head. Jane, the talented and outrageous marketing director for a global apparel company, stirred up trouble—again. One of her staff made the mistake of pushing an idea in a meeting that was different from

By Dr. Travis Bradberry If you are an emotionally intelligent manager, you work hard to have good relationships with your direct reports and are rewarded by your employer for doing so. You pick up on the moods of your people, and you’ve mastered the art of using your team’s collective feelings—both the sour and the