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Anyone Seen Any Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (or Home) Lately?

Having excellent academic qualifications, a high IQ and even great technical skills to enable you to carry out your role at work are all very well, but increasingly what employers are looking for is emotional intelligence.  Sometimes referred to as EI or EQ, emotional intelligence is essentially the ability to recognize and understand your own emotions, to perceive how these affect other people, to empathize with others and to manage your own feelings.  Because these things all add up to our ... Read more...
Steve Graves, Monday, August 22, 2011

Golf: A Game for The Whole Family?

"To play or not to play? That is the question." With all due respect to William Shakespeare, the question isn't whether we will be, it's whether we will play. Today's workplace is much tougher. Companies cutting back their workforces resulting in more tasks being placed on those who remain. Home time isn't much better.   Maintaining a proper home life seems to take more effort these days and doesn't provide much rest for the weary. Plenty of activities, chores, and diversions compete with ... Read more...
Steve Graves, Friday, August 19, 2011

To Combat Childish Behavior? Encourage Responsibility!

Especially in today’s world, where children are expected to grow up so quickly, many parents are reluctant to do anything that might impinge on the fun and innocence of childhood.  Setting a few household chores that a child can easily manage, however, helps to instill a good sense of responsibility and allows them to develop a strong work ethic – and it is much easier to do at a younger age than when they reach their teenage years.     As younger children tend to respond more readily to ... Read more...
Steve Graves, Wednesday, August 17, 2011

What are YOU afraid of?

  Fear is a natural feeling experienced by every human being, and in some cases it is a feeling that helps to keep us safe.  If you see a vicious-looking dog coming toward you, for instance, it is probably quite wise to heed any feelings of fear and step out of the way.  All too often, though, the fearful feelings that we experience and that hold us back in life have no sound basis at all.  In some cases, for example, they might come simply from other people’s misgivings or scaremongering, ... Read more...
Steve Graves, Monday, August 8, 2011

Where do you go to be inspired?

We all have times when we are wrestling with a thorny problem or are desperate to generate new ideas but inspiration simply eludes us.  We end up going around and around in circles and, instead of things becoming clearer, the waters just get murkier and murkier. Something that is worth trying when you find yourself locked in your own head and unable to come up with answers is to seek out a new perspective — a new physical perspective.  When we are constantly in the same physical ... Read more...
Steve Graves, Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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