Speed networking – not all it is cracked up to be
This evening, I received an invitation to attend a speed networking event in Berkshire. Now, I’m not particular keen on these kind of events, because […]
This evening, I received an invitation to attend a speed networking event in Berkshire. Now, I’m not particular keen on these kind of events, because […]
Even though we are in a recession and so job opportunities are harder to come by, it is important not to leap at the first […]
Wow, I just received a sharp rebuttal for an article I wrote about writing to build your counselling/psychotherapy practice. The individual wanted me to know […]
Reading Neil Oliver’s “Amazing tales for making men out of boys“, published in 2008, has set me off on a reflective trail of current leadership […]
The other weekend, I was lucky to attend the Annual Branch Conference of the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS). The RLSS is a charity, established […]
Around this time, each year, many of us take time out to do a little reflecting and setting ourselves some hopes and expectations for the […]
At some time in the late 1970s, a well known TV scientist put forward the idea that there was a certain level of stress that […]
Thorndike, in 1920, divided intelligence into three facets; understanding and managing ideas (abstract intelligence), concrete objects (mechanical intelligence), and people (social intelligence). In his words: […]
I don’t like the term ‘emotional intelligence’, or EQ, for several reasons; it is only one aspect of a more substantial area of psychology – […]
There’s more to success than manipulating peoples’ emotions. The idea of emotional intelligence seems to have pervaded business thinking since the book on the topic […]