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Diversity Training

Creating Inclusive Workspaces: 7 Essential Diversity Training Strategies

In the modern workplace, diversity training is crucial for fostering an inclusive, respectful, and productive environment. Integrating emotional intelligence (EQ) into diversity training can enhance understanding and cooperation among diverse team members. This is because emotional intelligence development focuses on sharpening behavioral skills that contribute to the workplace environment and culture. Without EQ, diversity training […]

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Psychological Safety in the Workplace

Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Psychological Safety

We’ve all been traumatized by the pandemic. So says Adria Horn, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve and an army veteran who served five tours of duty overseas between 2003 and 2010, in a recent article by McKinsey. She noted that what we are experiencing—anxiety, depression, a search for meaning—are identical to what

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Automation in the Workplace

The Future of Work

Across America, organizations are grappling with the COVID-19 induced labor shortage that has now been coined the Great Resignation. Labor reports show that in September of 2021 alone, 4.3 million Americans handed in their resignations. This was a sign that many people – especially in industries with low wages, small to no benefits, and potentially

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EQ can help to build your workplace culture

You Can’t Build Workplace Culture, but EQ Can Help You Foster It.

Many organizations talk to their leaders about “creating workplace culture.” Some talk about it in the context of hiring, training, or values. Others in terms of work ethic, resilience, or “synergy.” The challenge with these approaches is that you can’t really create workplace culture. Culture is the sum of people, the ways they interact, and

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diversity to inclusion

Emotional Intelligence (EQ): The Bridge from Diversity to Inclusion

Andrea managed to find a new project management position at a large pharmaceutical company despite the challenging job environment of COVID-19. She had been laid off in March, and she wasn’t quite sure what to expect during an onboarding process. Turns out her new company takes onboarding seriously. They run an official process with a

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What You Can Do To Raise Your Team’s Emotional Intelligence

A team’s performance is measured most often by the things they accomplish as a group—a new product developed, a crisis managed, or a patient’s satisfaction. How to increase emotional intelligence Beneath each of these final outcomes, the team engages in a whole symphony of interactions, crowded with conversations, thoughts, and feelings between people. Imagine, for

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