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Why Good Employees Quit (And What to Do About It)
You can likely remember at least one moment when a good employee left your organization. It stings. It hangs a dark cloud over morale, makes other employees question their own future, and sends everyone scrambling [Read More]
How Emotionally Intelligent People Conquer their Fears
For our ancestors, fear came in obvious forms: a bear, a steep cliff, a fire. Fear warned them of life and death dangers, instructing them to stay safe by fighting, fleeing, or freezing. At [Read More]
How to Choose and Use an EQ Mentor
If you’re like most people, you don’t already know how to improve on the things you struggle with. That’s why you struggle with them in the first place. Take emotional intelligence (EQ) for example. [Read More]
3 Creative Ways to Boost Your Virtual Team’s EQ
Is remote work globalizing talent and opening up new possibilities, or is it stifling creativity and collaboration? As with many things in life, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. There are new and exciting [Read More]
How To Avoid A Disastrous Hire
Sometimes a candidate does seemingly everything right throughout the hiring process, only to become a completely destructive force in the organization. Their experience, knowledge, and intelligence all appear to be perfect, and in interviews they [Read More]
Change Your Food to Change Your Mood: How What You Eat Affects Your Happiness
Bad moods sap our energy, and if we aren’t careful, they can hurt our ability to focus, make decisions, and manage our relationships. TalentSmartEQ’s data on nearly two-million people shows that highly emotionally intelligent people [Read More]