By Elisabeth Goodman, 3rd June 2018 I’ve written a few blogs on the characteristics of high performance teams and how to evaluate them and summarised them in this one on my RiverRhee website (http://riverrhee.com/blog/temperature-checks-or-diagnostics-high-performance-teams). Daniel Goleman et al’s “Teamwork: a primer”, number 11, in his “Building blocks of emotional intelligence” series, provides some additional helpful …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 28th April 2018 I’ve just been reading booklet number 10: Conflict Management, in the “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman et al. The authors have some powerful insights on the benefits of conflict and how to address or facilitate it constructively, both as an individual participant, and as a team …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd March 2018 The 9th ‘building block’ or ‘primer’, in Daniel Goleman et al’s series for Emotional Intelligence is all about the coach and mentor role of leaders. The style of these primers is very discursive, with chapters from several experts in the field. I mapped out the key points that emerged …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th March 2018 My colleague, Liz Mercer, and I recently bought the whole set of Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve”Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” between us. The 70+ page booklet on “Influence” caught my attention as we have a course on Effective Influencing and Communication Skills with RiverRhee. We also have a section …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th November 2017 Current approaches to management put emphasis on identifying and developing our strengths. And rightly so. Our individual strengths give us the opportunity to make significant contributions in our home and work lives. The diversity of strengths within a team contribute to the success of organisations. Personality tools such as …
Dealing with the dark side of our personalities! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th May 2016 Why is emotional intelligence such an important skill? Emotional intelligence helps us, as individuals, to cope more easily with the ups and downs of work and life. It helps us to build stronger relationships, collaborate with and influence others more effectively and to make better decisions. In a work …
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Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”. I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking, and emotional intelligence, and picked this one up at random, not really knowing what to expect. It’s a gem! Like his other …
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