Emotional Intelligence | Collaborative Growth

Manage Your Resilience Meter: Your Guide to Positivity, Productivity and Well-Being

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Managing resilience in today’s challenging world of high expectations and significant discord is tough. Change and challenge happen whether it comes from elections, a new organizational program being unveiled, a complete reshuffle due to a merger or parents moving into a care facility. Too often the challenges become just …

Leadership Development: The Four Corners of Empathetic Assertiveness

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw Successful leaders exhibit skills that may look natural and easy yet are truly the result of paying close attention and being responsive to the whole environment. To do so, they learn to …

High Productivity Results from Strong Team Identity

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell The only purpose of a team is to enable people to solve problems that are too big for one individual to solve alone. In high performing teams we find that each individual member is clearly aware of the team’s purpose and how they are expected to contribute to the …

Embracing the Opportunity to Build a World That Works for All

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Now is the time to live our intention to be the finest people we can be. All over the planet we’ve been challenged with COVID-19 and the attendant consequences of death, illness, and financial loss, especially for those who have the fewest resources. Now it’s spring in the northern …

How Do You Change Your Brain & Behaviors? 4 Steps Coaches Need to Apply

How do you Change Your Brain & Behaviors? by Marcia Hughes, Collaborative Growth

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell The challenges presented by the pandemic and now the gradual healing process we’re engaged in are transforming what is needed from coaches. The four steps explained here provide a pathway for coaches to meet the current challenge! Change is Hard Work. It’s possible, yet sustainable behavior change requires clarity, …

Crafting an Emotionally Sustainable Lifestyle

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Living during the on-going pandemic is a great life teacher. It’s helping so many of us recognize that life is precious. We can experience the value of being alive by paying attention to living an emotionally sustainable lifestyle. At Collaborative Growth, we are passionately committed to providing our services …

10 Actions to Make Your 2021 a Year of Authentic Success

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell How was your 2020? We know it was disruptive and even frightening for many in the world. There is a strong sense of love and community engagement. Yet, there’s also a strong sense of divisiveness in communities and nations, war, displacement, financial troubles. Instead of continuing to list and …

Emotionally Intelligent Holidays to You! OR An EQ Recipe for Cooking Up a Great Holiday

We are delighted to wish you the happiest and most joyous holiday season ever! It’s quite possible that this past year has tested your Flexibility or Optimism (or Impulse Control!). We suspect you could use a little bit of holiday. And just in case the power of our wishing one for you isn’t quite enough, …

Building Team Resilience Through Positive Mood

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Positive attitudes on your team will build resilience and impact every dimension of team work. Positivity will impact how well people get along with one another, how pleased they are to be on the team, their motivation and their creative thinking. That is why this is one of the …

Wellbeing and Decision Making Skills

Thriving in Challenging Time with Emotional Intelligence

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Emotions play a role in decision making in many ways, both subtle and more apparent, practical and not so practical, all of which make emotions not merely a player in the process of reasoning, but an indispensable player. Antonio Damasio, Leading Neuroscientist Note: This is the fourth in a …