Whether our clients say it or not, how they feel about what they bring to us for coaching plays an essential role in the coaching itself.

This essay is intended to help you and your clients better understand the origin of Emotional Intelligence, how it has been defined, the limitations of some of those definitions and how the definition we use really matters if what we are wanting is to be more successful in life and in business.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the capacity to understand and regulate emotions and to recognize the emotions of others and act accordingly. We propose that coaching based on EI can effectively build capacity and promote greater productivity.

Regardless of the approach, paradigm or method one follows, coaching requires a strong degree of human inference

Over the last two decades, team coaching has emerged as an extension of Executive Coaching, empowering leaders to work with their teams in new ways and transform team-building into culture-building. Since 2012, the field sales force for Sanofi’s North American Pharmaceutical division has been reaping the benefits of team coaching delivered via The Pyramid Resource Group’s proprietary model, Team Advantage™: …

Despite the fact leadership training programs abound, they have failed to produce good leaders.

A few weeks ago, a coaching student asked me to talk about emotional intelligence during a course on positive psychology. It was a great request, because both these sciences help people function more resourcefully for greater satisfaction in life, but they are far from identical.

Act mindfully and savor your relationships at work and at home. Stop doing things that no longer serve you. Create the powerful habit of “pacing” yourself to restore energy, build resiliency and create well-being.

The concept of presence could be described as knowing consciousness. Presence refers to the mental, emotional and spiritual resources which are required to witness ourselves in interaction with others.

The ability to select, motivate, develop, engage and retain top people is critical to a company’s success. If you want to build a company where people love to work you have to know how to hire and keep great people.