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Emotional intelligence
I ask this question from every stage I stand on, all over the world. Think about your best boss, your favorite teacher, your most beloved relative. Really think about them. Picture their face. Remember how you felt in their presence. What did they all have in common? Every single time, without fail, in every country…
Emotional intelligence
The Power of Joy and Feelings in Business, especially right now. ‘Life is not just about feeling good. It’s about being good at feeling.’ Why? Because everything we do in life is based directly or indirectly on feelings, whether we are conscious of them or not. Great wisdom comes from being conscious of…
Emotional intelligence
Joyful workplaces are buzzing with people bursting with energy, vitality and enthusiasm! They love what they do and feel they are important at work, and do important work! Here are five ways to make your your workplace a fun place to be! 1. Give others permission to be joyful! Our first step to creating…
Emotional intelligence
Last month I was very grateful to be invited to speak to a large group of Orthodontists who were innovative and exciting! They had brought a dynamic and incredibly creative group from Spain, who are setting up a base in the USA. It wasn’t until I returned home that I received the above-compiled video from the…
Change
In the last couple of years, I have had the great honor of working with many leaders who are seeing the value of fostering joy at work. Recently another article from Harvard with some research on areas at work that increase joy. Add these findings to Shawn Achor’s research on happiness at work and its…
General
Amanda Gore is one of Australia’s and the USA’s favorite conference keynote speaker. Amanda is CEO of The Joy Project, an author, speaker, Huffington Post columnist and business woman. She is one of 4 Australians inducted into the USA Speaker Hall of Fame. She works with small and large organizations like Flight Center, Google, McDonalds,…
Help for businesses
No matter what business you are in, there will be a time when you have to present some ideas to a group, your boss or colleagues, it’s your time to influence others. Or maybe you are presenting at a wedding or personal event, these secrets apply to any presentation you have to do…
Emotional intelligence
Every meeting planner or leader is looking for a speaker who can facilitate changes within their organization or team. Whether it’s: to make this years event the ‘best ever’ to change the culture of the organization to help ‘change fatigued’ staff renew their energy, enthusiasm and vitality to change how people think to address sensitive…
Emotional intelligence
Based on work by Lila Davachi (Ph D and Professor at NYU). Tobias Kiefer (VP Learning and Development) and David Rock (author of Your Brain at Work), at the Neuroleadership Summit, there is now a formula to enhance memory and learning! A= Attention G= Generation E= Emotion S= Spacing Focused attention is critical for memory…
Emotional intelligence
The Harvard business review (HBR) lists emotional intelligence (EQ) as the number one quality of a great leader. The essence of EQ is to know yourself, manage yourself and manage relationships. Out of all the various aspects of EQ, HBR states that the leader’s mood has the most significant impact on the culture of an…
Help for businesses
Funny how the universe works! This week I went for a meeting with a lady who epitomizes an opportunity for Millennials. Today I received in my inbox a Fast Company article called ‘Why Job Prospects for Millennials are Still Dreadful’. The interesting thing is that the number of young people who are involved with this…
Help for businesses
Last year I read an excellent article published in Harvard Business Review (HBR Magazine April 2012: The New Science of Building Great Teams by Prof. Alex Pentland). As the chief scientist of MIT Media Lab, he is the head of a team who have developed a device that measures team performance through a set of…
Emotional intelligence
Most definitions of business strategies revolve around the theme of long term plans of action designed to achieve a particular goal or set of objectives. I heard the worldwide CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi speak at a conference once, and he said that all their campaigns and strategies are based on a key finding: that…
Help for businesses
A new field of research is suggesting that when organizations promote an ethic of compassion they may not only experience a happier workplace but also an improved profits. I believe you can transform every aspect of your work (and life) with compassion. Compassion Transforms Businesses Imagine what life would be like all businesses practiced compassion.…
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