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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 […]

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 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

By Dr. Travis Bradberry In 1928, Harvard psychologist William Marston published a treatise that changed the way the world viewed personality. Marston observed human personality existing along four unique dimensions, or traits. Marston’s four personality traits are referred to as the DISC model, which is an acronym for a person’s tendency to be Dominant, Interpersonal,

By Dr. Jean Greaves Four old friends head to dinner at their favorite restaurant to celebrate. After they consume their selections, with laughter and raised voices, the waiter heads over to clear the empty plates. Smiling as he catches the friends’ heightened mood, he offers to show them the evening’s desserts. One friend says, “Absolutely!

  By Nick Tasler, M.S. It’s no secret that job seekers will find slim pickings in their search for gainful employment in 2009. Layoff rates aren’t slowing, and there are already more people competing for fewer open jobs than in any time in recent history. Faced with these odds, the best way to position yourself

Know anyone who wants to make more money? They’ll have to get in line. I think we’d all be hard-pressed to find a coworker, family member or friend who wouldn’t like to make more money. The trouble with earning more money is that it often requires a great sacrifice. With a higher salary come the

By Lac D. Su, M.S. and Nick Tasler, M.S. When one thinks of world class inventors and innovative thinkers, such as Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs, we tend to think mostly of creative geniuses who occasionally channeled their boundless mental power into light bulbs and Macs. We imagine them disappearing into the sort of mysterious,

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