How to Be a Great Coaching Client: 7 Smart Habits for Transformational Results
If you’ve made the courageous decision to invest in coaching—congratulations! You’ve already taken a bold step toward growth. But here’s the truth: coaching isn’t just about finding the right coach. It’s also about being the right client. The most powerful coaching transformations don’t happen by chance—they’re co-created. When you bring the right mindset, attitude, and […]
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Understanding Its Power for Leadership Success Traditional leadership styles often focus on authority, decision-making, and task management, while Emotional Intelligence (EI) offers a more holistic approach to leadership. As an executive leadership coach, I believe that integrating EI into leadership practices enhances not only decision-making but also interpersonal relationships within teams. Traditional leadership styles tend […]
Emotional intelligence can matter more than IQ
According to Dr Dorrian Aiken, part-time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, EQ is considered to be more important than IQ in leadership, management , parenting and teaching “because emotions are contagious”. She says one person can influence the well-being of others by behaving in a way that causes them to become demotivated. […]
How to screen leadership candidates for emotional intelligence
How important is it to interview executive leadership candidates for emotional intelligence when recruiting? Any executive search firm provides detailed information on each candidate’s career history, their reasons for leaving prior employers, and their most applicable career accomplishments, as well as the recruiter’s insights into each candidate. After reading through the extensive candidate profile that Laura […]
How Do I Become A Facial Expression Expert?
One of the purposes of my blog is to bring you information on current research that is going on in the field of emotions. Paul Ekman Ph.D. is a pre-eminent psychologist and a co-discoverer of micro expressions with Friesen, Haggard and Isaacs. In 2009, Ekman was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME […]