UK schools embrace Emotional Intelligence as pilot programs yield powerful results

From September, secondary schools in England are incorporating Emotional Intelligence into the curriculum after pilot programs throughout the country provided compelling evidence for its benefits among school children. The “Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning” (Seal) program, which has been piloted in selected primary schools in England, will be available to all secondary schools from [...]

Applying the EQ-i to promote student success at Marian College

On May 21 to 23, twenty-five higher education professionals from Midwest colleges will take part in the EQ-I certification training at the Stayer Center for Technology and Executive Learning on Marian College of Fond du lac’s campus. While the training has attracted participants from community colleges, public universities and other private colleges, Marian will be [...]

ICEI is only one month away; register now!

Excitement is building here at MHS, as well as within our network of Emotional Intelligence (EI) partners, for the International Conference on Emotional Intelligence, which is now exactly one month away. If you’ve been thinking about joining us, now is the time to make that commitment. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better combination of corporate users [...]

Demonstrate ROI with Comparative Reports

Objectively measuring the success of a training and coaching program is one of the biggest challenges in organizational development. Everyone attends and participates in the training, and things are seem to be improving, but how can you translate that feeling into concrete business terms that executives will appreciate?
As more and more research floods in supporting [...]

Connecting the dots with Emotional Intelligence: the experts speak

MHS was pleased to sponsor the recent Human Capital Institute (HCI) Summit, held in Phoenix in March. Listening to the great speakers, we found a certain commonality among the majority of the presentations, and this commonality was Emotional Intelligence.
There were a few speakers who identified social and emotional factors as contributors to a successful workplace. [...]

Is Emotional Intelligence Worthwhile?

Yes, that was the title of a presentation at this year’s SIOP (Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology) conference in New York City. The paper, by Dana Rhodes and Daniel Newman from Texas A&M University, reported a meta-analysis of research studies looking at ability-based EI, so-called mixed-model EI (essentially self-report measures of EI), cognitive intelligence, Big [...]