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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 …

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 …

Wellbeing and Self-Expression

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Note: Now more than ever with a world pandemic underway, it’s time to focus on our own wellbeing. By taking care of ourselves, we are stronger, more patient, and happier. Then we can offer the world all our gifts to promote healing. This is the second in a series …

Wellbeing and Self-Perception

– Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Now more than ever with a world pandemic underway, it’s time to focus on our own wellbeing. By taking care of ourselves, we are stronger, more patient, and happier. Then we can offer the world all our gifts for healing. This and the next several articles will focus on …

Wellbeing and Self-Perception

by Marcia Hughes and James Terrell Self-Perception includes three core skills according to the EQi 2.0: Self-Regard, Self-Actualization and Emotional Self-Awareness. These three powerful skills are a part of the 16 skills resulting from rigorous research begun in the 1980’s by Dr. Reuven Bar-On when he asked the question: “What differentiates people who are successful …