Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Tools and strategies to put you and your team in the top 10 percent.

by Dr. Relly Nadler

Confidence: Are You on Your Case or on Your Side?

Turn your whippings into learnings. The main question people have after they understand the value of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is: How do I raise EI for myself and others? Here will explore the confidence competency. Confidence is knowing one’s own abilities and having enough faith in them to make sound decisions in the face of uncertainty and pressure. Read More

Rice’s Rage Derails Him: Detecting Your Own Derailers

Derailer detection: Rutgers' Rice's rants and rages, robbed his career. Every week we have new examples of someone not being able to manage their emotions and derailing. This week it is Mike Rice, Head Basketball coach from Rutgers University, who pushed, swore, used homophobic slurs and physically abused his players. He was first suspended, fined $50,000 and then fired. Read More

Fallen Heroes: Armstrong Cheating, Pistorius Shooting

Fallen Heroes: Every day we hear of some one cheating, losing their impulse control and in moments their career derails. What are your main derailers to avoid, take the derailer detector. Read More

Why Leaders Underperform: Their Default is to Find Fault

Leaders underperform because the pressing problem takes precedence over people development. New research suggest we can only be on one neural channel at a time, analysis or empathy. Which do you think gets our first attention at work? Five strategies can help you stay tuned into the empathy channel with your direct reports and teams. Read More

Leadership Derailers and the Presidential Campaign

The presidential campaign has been full of denials, overused strengths, and Emotional Intelligence derailers. It has left disappointment in its wake and few leadership competencies to emulate. Here is a look at how to deconstruct some of these leadership dynamics and behaviors. Read More

Jobs: Guru and Goon

Steve Jobs has been a fascinating case study in this blog for leadership because he was a phenomenal innovator and marketer, while demonstrating a dark side that could demonize people. This is the last entry to explore his leadership conundrum. Read More

Steve Jobs' Narcissism: Do the Ends Justify the Means?

Steve Jobs is a fascinating case study in leadership, because he was a phenomenal innovator and marketer while at the same time being visionary and vicious. He is a star in some EI competencies, but he devastated others on the way to success. Do his ends and accomplishments justify his means? Read More

Steve Jobs EI Profile: Technical Giant or Narcissistic Tyrant?

Steve Jobs EI Profile: Technical Giant or Narcissistic Tyrant? Read More

Steve Jobs: Superman Syndrome, Low EQ, High IQ

EI Profile: Superman Uncloaked Read More

Will Meg be Magic for HP?

Will Whitman's Emotional Intelligence enable HP's success? Read More

The Illusion of Self-Awareness

Leaders are More Unaware the Aware: 8 Reasons Read More

Where Did My IQ Go and How Do I Get It Back?

Any strong emotion, anxiety, anger, joy, or betrayal trips off the amygdala and impairs the prefrontal cortex's working memory. The power of emotions overwhelms rationality. That is why when we are emotionally upset or stressed we can't think straight. Read More