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Top 5 Resources for Supporting Work-Life Balance

Here’s my top 5 ideas for supporting your team with work-life balance: 1. Encourage socializing - Don’t look down on employees for having water cooler conversations or chatting in between assignments — better yet, join in when it makes sense to do so! Encouraging...

Identifying Hidden Cultural Resistance

In every organization striving to evolve — whether toward inclusion, innovation, or agility — there lies an often-overlooked obstacle:hidden cultural resistance. Download the Report Enter your information for an instant download:

Using Social Intelligence to Address Workplace Culture and Root Out Toxic Leadership

Workplace culture issues and toxic leadership often arise from a lack of awareness, unchecked power dynamics, and poor communication. Social intelligence (SI) provides leaders with the skills to observe, understand, and influence behavior in ways that improve culture,...

Understanding Social Intelligence and Its Role in Leadership

Social intelligence (SI) is the ability to effectively navigate and manage social interactions by understanding and responding to the emotions, intentions, and behaviors of others. It combines awareness of one’s own social presence with the capacity to read,...

Have We Gone Too Far with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?

As a business transformation expert who understands that organizations need to make changes over time on how they operate, and someone who has focused on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) over the last decade, I understand how there is a balance needed on...

Think gender-based violence outside the workplace doesn’t affect your business? Think again. Here’s my story.

My husband and I decided to go out on the town this past NYE – get dressed up and find somewhere where we could have dinner and dance to live music. I found a great dress, put on the heels for the first time since covid hit, and we were off. The evening was going...

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How Do EQ Skills Improve My Business? The Necessity of Self-Awareness

“Can’t you see why you’re wrong?!”. We have all heard this, or some variation of it, in our arguments with those closest to us. Typically, the recipient of this phrase is unable or unwilling to change their viewpoint, leading to a further breakdown in communication....

Why Corporate Social Intelligence should be on your company’s radar.

Despite major advances in the last decade in Corporate Social Responsibility, companies have missed the mark when it comes to Social Intelligence. This concept was developed by Edward Thorndike in 1920 and it refers to how humans act toward each other. In an...

Five ways to make the most out of your change agent

Change agents spend their time managing large projects in as little time as possible. Management often expects change agents to get the process done without intrusion or without relying too heavily on employees. Unfortunately, that prevents the agent from doing good...

Mainstreaming Social Intelligence

If you talk with psychologists about social intelligence, they will be clear that it’s been around since Daniel Goleman introduced the term in the late 1990’s. His definition is “the ability to get along well with others, and to get them to cooperate with you.” He’s...

Millennials Seek Work-Life Integration

As someone from the gen-X cohort, I have tried hard to attain a work-life balance throughout my life, albeit with measured success. But the Millennials, who are those between the ages of 18-34, have pushed this idea one step further and are seeking work-life...

Women in Forestry

It’s no newsflash that the forest sector has been undergoing unprecedented transformation with both the types of products it produces and processes used, but what is surprising is the lack of transformation on the workforce representation of women. Women continue to...