How to Start the New Year Strong to Achieve Your Goals
Are you ready for 2025 with New Year’s resolutions and goals? There is something highly motivating about starting fresh with a plan and practice to be more self-aware this year!
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Motivation Mastery: Igniting Employee Excellence in the Workplace
Are you wondering how to motivate, engage, and influence employees? Leaders can implement these seven critical strategies to move their team's performance from good to great.
Workplace Dynamics: Why Being Heard is More Important Than Ever
If you want to keep employees engaged at work, offer open communication with access to leaders at every level in the organization. Ensuring that every employee's voice is heard is essential for creating a thriving and productive workplace.
The Hidden Barrier to Success: How to Elevate Your Emotional Intelligence
Low emotional intelligence can be a significant obstacle to success, impacting job performance and overall achievement. Since emotional intelligence accounts for 58% of job performance, improving this skill is crucial. Elevating your emotional intelligence enhances communication and fosters better relationship development.
Breaking the Chains of Perfection: Your Journey to a Happier You
Many of us spend much of our time striving to be perfect. Personally, seeking perfection served me well for many years, until I realized that if I focus on excellence perfection is irrelevant.
Cool Down and Sleep On It: The Secret to Rational Responses
Our emotions send us many vital messages that, in turn, trigger thoughts and feelings. So, we must have a strategy with a rational and calm response when faced with life’s challenges.
Empowerment from Within: Practical Steps to Enhance Self-Compassion
When it comes to compassion, many lack the emotional intelligence skills to shift their focus on self-care and embrace self-compassion to boost mental health.
Vulnerability: The Secret Weapon for Enhancing Emotional Intelligence
Vulnerability and emotional intelligence are closely connected, as both involve awareness and management of emotions in oneself and others. Emotion is an integral part of being human, as is vulnerability, yet many are cautious about being vulnerable and authentic and showing our emotions.
Embracing Mindfulness: A Pathway to a More Meaningful Life
Did you know that studies show our minds wander nearly 47% of the time? This constant distraction can leave us feeling disconnected and overwhelmed. Do you spend time focusing on the present and living in the moment? If so, you're practicing mindfulness, a powerful antidote to the unwanted side effects of a fast-paced lifestyle, something I refer to as the 'Drive-By Life' phenomenon.
Emotional Contagion in Relationships: What Do You Radiate?
Have you ever noticed how someone's mood can quickly affect the atmosphere in a room? It's crucial to appreciate the impact of emotional contagion on others. Emotions are a significant driver of our behaviour and are hard-wired to cause us to react before considering the situation rationally. Therefore, understanding and effectively managing emotional contagion is essential to developing emotional intelligence and fostering healthier relationships.
