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Trust Before Protection: How Emotional Intelligence Helps Children Feel Safe Enough to Speak, Part 2
By Fernando Restoy Building Trust Before Trying to Solve The first task in Child Protection is often not to advise, correct, or investigate. It is to create enough emotional safety for the child to speak honestly. This means slowing down, observing carefully, and paying attention to what emotions may be present under the surface. Is […]
Trust Before Protection: How Emotional Intelligence Helps Children Feel Safe Enough to Speak, Part 1
By Fernando Restoy A Mission Shaped by What Children Could Not Yet Say My name is Fernando, and my professional path in Child Protection began in 2014, when I started volunteering at Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), supporting Cambodian children exposed to extreme poverty, drug addiction, sexual exploitation, and violence. Working closely with students […]
A Deep Dive into the Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence Courses
Want to bridge the gap between emotional intelligence theory and real-world application? In this special episode, Dan breaks down the basics of his emotional intelligence (EI) model and how his flagship online courses help EI learners grow this specific skill set. Along with Daniel Goleman EI Course Facilitators Michael Stern and Patricia Figueroa, they discuss […]
Emotionally Intelligent and Fluid Leadership Gets Results
Leaders who have mastered four or more leadership styles – especially the visionary, democratic, affiliative, and coaching – have the very best climate and business performance. And the most effective leaders switch flexibly among the leadership styles as needed. Such leaders don’t mechanically match their style to fit a checklist of situations – they are […]
A Leader’s Triple Focus
A primary task of leadership is to direct attention. Leaders tell us where to focus our energies. But leaders need, too, to manage their own attention. To direct attention well requires a keen grasp of where, when, why, and toward what we need to aim our awareness. Leaders who do this effectively can soar, those […]
How to Lead with Heart
Of all the dimensions of emotional intelligence, empathy is the most easily recognized. For a leader, it doesn’t mean adopting other people’s emotions as one’s own and trying to please everybody. That would be a nightmare — it would make action impossible. Rather, empathy means thoughtfully considering employees’ feelings — along with other factors — […]
IQ or EI: You Need Both
The CEO of one of the world’s largest financial companies told me, “I hire the best and brightest – but I still get a Bell Curve for performance.” Why, he wanted to know, aren’t the smartest MBAs from top schools like Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton all highly successful on the job? The answer lies in […]
Why Emotional and Social Intelligence Matters for Today’s Leaders
Leaders who want to succeed at any level of an organization must be emotionally intelligent. That’s the message I take away from reviewing decades of studies done by researchers and businesses across the world. What do I mean by emotional intelligence? What does the research say about why it matters? And how can you develop […]