By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th December 2018 What better topic to select from Daniel Goleman et al’s Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence, as we prepare for a new year, than booklet #5 on “Positive Outlook”?! What is positive outlook? According to the definition in the booklet, “Positive outlook” is about: Seeing the positive in people, situations …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 25th November, 2018 Small SMEs, large organisations, and a “microenterprise” model One of the aspects I enjoy so much about working with smaller Life Science or Biotech organisations* is the level of energy, enthusiasm and connection that every employee seems to have with their company’s purpose. The people we encounter seem to …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th November, 2018 What is “Achievement Orientation”? The fourth primer in Daniel Goleman et al’s series on Emotional Intelligence is entitled “Achievement Orientation” – as summarised in this illustration. The authors highlight the difference between what individuals might have excelled at early on in their professional careers vs. what it might take …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th November 2018 As many of the organisations that I work with are really struggling with this issue, Rose Hollister’s and Michael Watkins’ Harvard Business Review article on “Too many projects” (Sept-Oct 2018, pp 65-71) was very appropriate. Why care about too many projects? The authors assessment of the potential of too …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th September 2018 Emotional self-awareness is at the root of emotional intelligence, and it is a skill. I am increasingly realising, as I work with managers and individual team members, that emotional self-awareness is a skill in which people have varying levels of proficiency. I’ve gone back to the very first of …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2018 Booklet number 7 in Daniel Goleman et al’s “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” is entitled ‘Organizational Awareness”. As with the previous booklets that I have documented: 2: Emotional Self-Control 3: Adaptability 8: Influence 9: Coaching and Mentoring 10: Conflict Management 11: Teamwork I have found it helpful to summarise …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th July 2018 If we don’t know what is expected of us, it can be hard to deliver it! No matter how informal the management practices may be in your organisation, there will come a point when someone will query what it is that you are there to do and whether you …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 14th July 2018 Collaborative working is on the rise – at the cost of individual productivity Speaking from experience This will not be news to people who are continuously wrestling against the demands of their e-mails, meetings, phone calls and interruptions from colleagues. Matrix working, multi-tasking on projects and interacting with colleagues, …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th July 2018 One of the challenges we have at work is the expectation that we not only get on with, but achieve our best outcomes with people that we might not necessarily like! When delegates on our RiverRhee training courses ask me what they can do about that, I suggest that …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 1st July 2018 I’m picking my way, as the mood takes me, through Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence”. My latest read is “2. Emotional Self-Control”. Each of these little booklets (or primers) has little nuggets of insights which I frequently find helpful for myself, as well as …
