The Importance Of Soft Skills In The Workplace And 5 Ways To Teach ThemYou know your new hire has the hard technical skills they need to do their job. What remains a mystery is how to combine the practical knowledge they already have with the soft skills they may be lacking, especially if this job is their first or they're transitioning into a new role. As digital natives chiefly accustomed to the online world enter the workforce, soft skills training is more important than ever. Here's how you

Kinesiology technique ESR (emotional stress release) can defuse anxiety and tension, naturopath, nutritionist and herbalist Cassie Mendoza-Jones says: “It activates reflex points which bring fresh blood to the frontal lobes. Our ‘front’ brain presents us with new alternatives and options.” Here’s how:1. Place one hand across your forehead (pinkie just above your brows) and the other just above the nape of your neck.2. Take deep breaths and picture the stress – the colours, sounds, shapes

"Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf." -Jonatan MartenssonI hated roller coasters when I was a little kid. Being a little ball of anxiousness, the thought that people would willingly and excitedly put themselves on a machine that has an opportunity to cause death, bring out fear, and make you feel out of control, felt more like the definition of what happens in the next life if you don’t behave yourself in this one!But I have come

Leadership Coaching: 11 Focus Areas, Plus Coaching Questions | by Jennifer Britton MES, CHRP, CPT, PCCShare Pin 6 74 SharesIt's never been a more exciting time to be a leader! Virtual and remote working is now common, and calls on all professionals to boost their leadership capability whether they're in a formal leadership role or not. All this means Leadership Coaching is a fast developing coaching niche.We live and work in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) context. In

The world’s spinning with change and chatbots, and businesses are responding by developing the soft skills that will keep them relevant. The best part is, it’s working! Employees with high emotional intelligence (EQ) are better performers1, and organizations that foster soft skills like collaboration are outperforming2 those that don’t.So, you’ll just make sure that all new hires are soft skill superheroes, right? Hmm, not exactly. You see, a recent study by LinkedIn found that almost 60% of

Being smart in academia is not enough to become successful. High IQ must be accompanied by high EQ. Unfortunately, EQ is not listed on any of the classes at school. In some situations, EQ is even more important than IQ on the road to success, so what is it exactly and how can we improve it?What Is Emotional Intelligence? 5 Components & 4 Dimensions.Emotional Intelligence (Emotional Quotient, or EQ) is the ability to recognize emotions of oneself and others as well as manage and identify

The 5 Elements You Need to Create a Powerful Retreat | by Jennifer Britton MES, CHRP, CPT, PCCShare Pin 1 21 SharesCreate a Pause for Your Hardworking Clients through RetreatsAs coaches, our conversations usually take place over an extended period. Some of your clients may want to take a deeper and more intimate dive into coaching conversations through retreats.Retreats can take a wide variety of forms - from corporate retreats to wilderness retreats, retreats for writers or couples to virtual

Many massage therapists use tools in their massage sessions. Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation (IASTM) is rapidly becoming a popular tool and something for massage therapists to look into for use in their practices. IASTM is a manual therapy

“Write about the search,” he said. “That’s what’s fucking killing everyone.”“The search?” Did he mean finding a new rent-controlled apartment that wasn’t possessed by fruit flies? Or perhaps a new startup job that boasted an extra one-zillionth percent of equity? In San Francisco we were all searching for so many things at once.“No, no. I mean the search for love. For ‘the one.’”I was perplexed. I had always assumed the male contingent of San Francisco skipped freely through much cleaner

Evil, it can seem, is all around us. Hitler. The Rwandan genocide. Ted Bundy. Every time you read the news or watch television, bad behaviour that causes harm is on display. These days, the word ‘evil’ has religious connotations. It’s tied up with morality and transgressions against the will of a divine being. But in its original Old English it meant anything that was simply bad, vicious or cruel.Is being evil advantageous in some scenarios?Assuming we stick to this broader non-religious

Over the course of any given day, the average person sees plenty of odd behavior. A bizarre outfit or a strange conversation, an unfamiliar gesture or anything, really, that doesn't fit into the realm of acceptable behavior.One of the most common breaches, one of the things that tends to give us pause more than anything else, is something — or some things, really — that we like to call stupid.That thing that happened.That thing that person did.It was SO. STUPID.The word is used so freely, and