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8 01, 2018

Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 3 – Emotional Self Awareness

By RicHayden|2023-01-04T12:27:47+00:00January 8th, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Belief, Business, Emotional Self Awareness, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance|Comments Off on Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 3 – Emotional Self Awareness

This blog is part of a series of blogs where we explore Emotional Intelligence. We will look at ways to be able to develop and enhance our own perceived levels of Emotional Intelligence. What is Emotional Intelligence? Take a look at our previous blog What is Emotional Intelligence and How Can I develop it, for more detail. A quick update, Emotional intelligence is all about how well you understand your own emotions and the emotions of others, and the ability to identify and manage them. Emotional Intelligence, also known as “Ei” or “EQ”, is now well established set of [...]

2 01, 2018

Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 2 – Self Actualisation

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:28:34+01:00January 2nd, 2018|Emotional Intelligence, Belief, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Self Actualisation, Success|Comments Off on Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 2 – Self Actualisation

This blog is part of a series of blogs where we explore Emotional Intelligence. We will look at ways to be able to develop and enhance our own perceived levels of Emotional Intelligence. What is Emotional Intelligence? Well, you can take a look at our previous blog What is Emotional Intelligence and How Can I develop it, to find out some more. Emotional intelligence is all about how well you understand your own emotions and the emotions of others, and the ability to identify and manage them. Emotional Intelligence, also known as “Ei” or “EQ”, is now well established [...]

14 12, 2017

Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 1 – Self Regard

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T15:57:18+01:00December 14th, 2017|Emotional Intelligence, Belief, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Self Regard, Success|Comments Off on Developing Emotional Intelligence – Part 1 – Self Regard

This blog is part of a series of blogs where we explore Emotional Intelligence. We will look at ways to be able to develop and enhance our own perceived levels of Emotional Intelligence. What is Emotional Intelligence? Well, you can take a look at our previous blog What is Emotional Intelligence and How Can I develop it, to find out some more. Emotional intelligence is all about how well you understand your own emotions and the emotions of others, and the ability to identify and manage them. Emotional Intelligence, also known as “Ei” or “EQ”, is now well established [...]

5 12, 2017

What is Emotional Intelligence? and how can I develop it…

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T15:53:42+01:00December 5th, 2017|Emotional Intelligence, Belief, Business, Engagement, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion|Comments Off on What is Emotional Intelligence? and how can I develop it…

Have you ever wondered what the term Emotional Intelligence is? Or indeed thought about why it might be important? In a series of blogs over the next 15 weeks we are going to explore Emotional Intelligence, looks at what it is and what the practical details are for using Emotional Intelligence in every day life. So what is it Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence is all about how well you understand your own emotions and the emotions of others, and the ability to identify and manage them. Emotional Intelligence, also known as “Ei” or “EQ”, is now well established set [...]

11 10, 2017

Are you Listening? Actually Listening? – The art of listening is not totally lost.

By RicHayden|2023-01-04T12:41:40+00:00October 11th, 2017|Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Presenting, Success, Uncategorised|Comments Off on Are you Listening? Actually Listening? – The art of listening is not totally lost.

Listen. What do you hear right now? For many people what can be heard right now. Over all of the noise in the background. Over the person who may be speaking to you. Right now you can hear your own voice. Thats what you are listening to. The voice inside your head that is formulating the planned response to what should be listened to. How often does that voice disrupt communication? There are two reasons why people are not good at listening The majority of the time we stop listening when we have heard something that we want to respond [...]

7 06, 2017

Why losing employees may be your fault…

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:32:48+01:00June 7th, 2017|Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Why losing employees may be your fault…

You’re heartbroken! You just didn’t see it coming. You thought things were going so well, but now it’s over, and you’re gutted. You keep asking yourself “where did I go wrong?”, and “what could I have done differently”. And slowly it dawns on you. “I treated them the same as everyone else, and now I’m back to where I started”. It reads like the love of your life has walked out on you. And whilst there was never any “romance”, professionally the dalliance is over. Your new hire has resigned. Perhaps you had an inkling that things weren’t working out [...]

13 08, 2016

Why do we focus on incompetencies?

By RicHayden|2023-05-18T14:33:54+01:00August 13th, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Success|Comments Off on Why do we focus on incompetencies?

Guest Blog by Sarah Scarratt We have quite a big garden, takes about 2 hours to mow with a sit-on mower, so it’s always a good opportunity to take some time to ponder and reflect on life. Most recently, I was thinking about a psychotherapist I know and how I feel so incompetent around her. She’s tall, much taller than me, and always seems so calm and capable. “Bet she can’t use a mower though”, I thought to myself. And I realised that I’ve actually been using a sit-on mower for 15 years. I wondered how many other colleagues can [...]

3 06, 2016

Creating a Coaching Culture

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00June 3rd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, Happiness, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, SMART Goals, Success|Comments Off on Creating a Coaching Culture

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"]UK business and economy is back on track and is growing at it’s fastest pace since the downturn of the recession. However, since the experience of the recession businesses and business managers mindset has changed in the way they operate, now having a focus not slipping back in to hard times and the expectation on people within the business is higher. Ensuring that everything is in place for everyone in the organisation, Managers, Leaders and Employees to enable them to succeed is as crucial a part of the competitive advantage as is being competitive. In fact, having [...]

22 04, 2016

Making SMART Goals work

By RicHayden|2021-10-11T12:26:33+01:00April 22nd, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, Goal Setting, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Sales Performance, SMART Goals|Comments Off on Making SMART Goals work

You’ve done it. You have worked hard on the objectives of your team and made them S.M.A.R.T. Everyone knows what they are and have gone away happy from your 1-2-1 with them. You have gone away knowing what is going to get done and when because each part of the objective has been covered, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. Good work you… But then, after the objective setting, in the performance stage you begin to realize that the objectives aren’t quite being met. This could be for many reasons, do your team know how [...]

5 04, 2016

The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Accept

By RicHayden|2023-09-21T13:06:56+01:00April 5th, 2016|Belief, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, High Performance Culture, Leadership, Management, Organisational Culture, Organisational Happiness, Organisational Performance, Passion, Success|Comments Off on The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Accept

Lt. General Morrison gave a short but powerful speech in which he strongly condemns aggression against women. His statement “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept” became golden words and inspired many. Morrison’s words serve to awake the sleeping conscience of the leaders and higher authorities specifically and everyone else’s in general. This powerful quote is applicable in all walks of life, including the business world where it gives the following lessons: The Leader is Responsible: It is the responsibility of the leader to take care of everyone and to eliminate any kind of discrimination. Things can change, [...]