Emotional Intelligence Strategies & Solutions

Preventing Workplace Violence: 7 EQ Strategies for a Safer Environment

Preventing Workplace Violence: 7 EQ Strategies for a Safer Environment

In the United States, incidents of violence have become alarmingly frequent in various settings, including churches, grocery stores, schools, and businesses. As workplace violence continues to rise, organizations are compelled to develop comprehensive prevention strategies. While physical safety measures like the “run, hide, fight” active shooter techniques are vital, there is another powerful approach to […]

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Employee Development

4 Proven Strategies for Effective Employee Development

In today’s competitive landscape, investing in employee development is not merely a nice perk; it’s a strategic imperative for enhancing well-being, communication, collaboration, relationships, and performance. While this sounds like a lot to tackle, we can do so by turning to Team Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Team EQ focuses on emotions and relationships, the two key factors in performance.

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How TalentSmartEQ’s “Developing EQ in Policing” Program Enhances De-Escalation Training for Law Enforcement

As a leader at TalentSmartEQ, I helped design the “Developing EQ in Policing” program, a key component of modern de-escalation training used by law enforcement agencies across the country and in Canada. Agencies now provide EQ training for officers to address well-being, leadership, de-escalation, use of force, and recruitment.  These hands-on EQ training programs include

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Realize your Potential with EQ in Action: A Targeted Way to Meet Workplace Transformation Head On

What is EQ in Action? TalentSmartEQ proudly presents “EQ in Action,” a suite of programs designed to help learners apply the EQ skills needed to address their biggest individual and organizational challenges and meet change and transformation head-on. For now, the EQ in Action suite is only available to TalentSmartEQ Certified Trainers. This suite is

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Do Your Managers Have What It Takes? The Central Ingredient in Management Development Training

Effective management is crucial for the success of any organization. Today, organizations across the globe realize the significance of investing in management development training to cultivate strong leaders. In this blog post, we will look at management development programs and delve into the transformative power of emotional intelligence (EQ) as the preferred training solution. Emotional

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why emotional intelligence?

Why Focus on Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional Intelligence training focuses on the outcomes that matter most to an organization at every level—from employees to leaders to the organization at large. Organizations: From Disconnected to Aligned The EQ Impact: All too often corporate training only happens at the top.  However, if employees at every level have access to essential EQ skills, there

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What is emotional intelligence?

What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)?

We often hear about Emotional Intelligence, but what exactly is it?  Can it really impact our success?  The answer is, yes! While the concept of emotions impacting success in both work and life began to emerge throughout the 70’s and 80’s, the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) did not become mainstream until the 1990’s with

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An Emotionally Intelligent Change Model

The problem with change might be simpler than we tend to make it out to be. We often talk about change as an obstacle we must overcome. However, you’ve also heard it many times: change is constant. If we take a moment to fully absorb this truism, we’ll see that change is neither exceptional nor

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How To Break A Bad Habit—For Good

Have you ever tried to break a bad habit, only to give up in frustration? The problem isn’t that you’re weak or that the bad habit is too ingrained; in all likelihood, you just gave up too soon. Researchers at University College, London, found that it takes 66 days for a new habit to form.

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