One of the great things about the workplace is that it throws us into a social environment where we are required to work alongside, communicate with, and get along with, people from a broad range of backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, and belief systems. As a result, you could well be working alongside someone who has very…
In recent months there has been a significant uptick in the discourse around hardiness and resilience. While neither of these are new topics, it seems like something has shifted, and more attention is being paid to these, as well as other aspects of workplace stress, than has been in the past. This is a really,…
Why is it that some people are better at handling stress than others? Why do some people believe they have a great deal of control over their lives, while others feel that life is just something that happens to them? Why, when one person sees an insurmountable challenge, does someone else sees the same situation…
If one of your commitments for 2021 is to read more (an admirable goal), here are some suggestions for learning more about emotional intelligence. I originally published this blog post in 2014 with just four books, and those selections still hold today. Over time I have added more books, each one of which offers something…
Check out this podcast from my colleague and collaborator Glenn Taylor In this podcast I talk about emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership, manipulation, and cognitive biases – among other things. I hope you like it! #12. Emotional Intelligence and Leadership with Drew Bird
One of my favourite quotes is by Mark Twain. It goes: “It ain’t what you don’t know that will get you into trouble. It is what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” I love this quote because it encapsulates so perfectly the essence of Reality Testing – one of the subscales in the…
By the time I got to the car rental counter, I was already annoyed. The flight in had been long, and the ‘In-Terminal’ rental car pickup had magically morphed into ‘a representative from the car rental company is in the terminal and can show you where the shuttle bus will pick you up’. Time was…
One of the most compelling, and confounding questions about investing in developing emotional intelligence (or any leadership training) is “What’s the ROI”? While on the surface the case for developing emotional intelligence in leaders makes sense (who doesn’t want to work for someone who is emotionally intelligent), can we really point to any difference that…
You have probably seen the TV commercial for Snickers Bars that has the tagline ‘You are not yourself when you are hungry’. If you have ever suffered from being ‘hangry’ (hungry that makes angry) you can likely relate. There is a well-established connection between our physiological state, and our resulting emotional state and subsequent behaviour. …
Collaboration isn’t always easy. Seeing the world from different points of view and bringing our own experiences and interpretations to every endeavor creates plenty of opportunity for conflict, and requires that we are able to have control over the way we interact with others. When our own values or beliefs bump up against things that…
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