EQFIT - Equipping People to Prosper

Since 2020, leadership focus has turned to how to best lead and manage remote workers. Results are mixed when it comes to leadership success with remote and hybrid teams. The focus on productivity shows mixed results but trending down. The push to get employees in the office is increasing. This episode brings focus to how leadership can enhance remote worker engagement and performance while creati...

A key leadership focus in today's world is overcoming the challenge of digital transformation. The leadership demands of digital transformation start with the technology but rapidly engage the human dynamic. The focus on people during a change initiative like this is critical to a successful digital transformation effort. At the end of all forms of technology are people. They will either leverage...

Self-awareness is the pathway to achieve your goals and dreams. Knowing yourself well is at the heart of every successful change in life and work. Self-awareness is the starting point for growth. What are your strengths, gaps, developmental opportunities? What are your limits? What about the people around you? How self-aware are they? Explore self-awareness, its importance, and how to grow your se...

Want to know how to increase emotional resilience? It starts with emotional flexibility and adaptability. Emotional resilience is a resource internal to each person. The more we equip ourselves with practices that enhance emotional resilience, the more we will have when we need it. Learn specific practices to increase your emotional resilience.

Empathy for leaders is the skill of emotional intelligence that will accelerate success most rapidly. Leaders get things done through other people. Great leaders start with empathy, to gain understanding of how people are feeling and what their perspective is on specific areas of focus. Gain insight into how to leverage empathy for leaders to become the best leader they can be.

To grow emotional agility, it starts with growing key skills of emotional intelligence. Emotional agility is the ability to navigate emotions, have good emotional literacy, recognize patterns, exercise optimism, and engage intrinsic motivation...all skills of emotional intelligence. The benefits of increasing emotional agility are profound. Greater enjoyment, success, satisfaction, focus, energy,...

Decision making and emotional intelligence (EI) go together like hand and glove. Our best decisions happen when we combine our rational intelligence with our emotional intelligence. EI skills directly impact the quality of our decisions. Greater EI applied leads to better decisions and outcomes. EI skills help us to better understand the perspectives of others which further enhances our decision m...

Managing stress with emotional intelligence is the best way to reduce stress. Stress is made up of a complex set of emotions, so it makes sense that the skills of emotional intelligence would be the key to reducing stress. Whether you are a stay-at-home parent, a remote worker, retired, leading a team, or a C-suite executive, everyone needs to be able to reduce stress through leveraging the skills...

How do you measure the vital signs for work in a team? By focusing on the most important drivers of success: Trust, Execution, Motivation, Teamwork, and Change (being change agile). The Team Vital Signs from Six Seconds is a unique team assessment/survey that provides validated and actionable data. What is actionable data? Data that gives you accurate insight and allows you to create KPIs and goal...

When taking the vital signs for work, leadership is the most impactful place to start. One of the best ways to do this is to utilize a leadership360 assessment. These tools, if they are highly validated, can provide invaluable insight into how a leader is showing up in their leadership for other people. Leadership vital signs must include the 5 drivers of success for work: Trust, Execution, Teamwo...

Just like doctors check their patients' vital signs, we can do the same thing for leaders, teams, and entire organizations. Diagnose what is not working well. Identify root causes of dysfunction. Discover opportunities for enhancement and unlocking unrealized potential. The best decisions and outcomes happen when you have the best insights and actionable data. Want to build a competitive advantage...

What is my habit story? It is the discovery of my productive and counterproductive habits and how those are impacting every aspect of my life. There is now a way to measure habits to understand what your personal habit story is and how you can transform your habits for more success and satisfaction in life. Thousands of people around the world are tuning in to their habit story...and shaping their...

The fastest way to increase trust...trust via emotional intelligence. EI skills are foundational to building and maintaining trust. Trust via emotional intelligence leverages empathy, and social skills, along with self-awareness and self-regulation, to enhance relationships and interaction with other people. Trust is "the currency of getting things done". Especially getting things done through oth...

One of the most impactful areas of leadership focus is something called, "continuous partial attention". Distractions in the workplace have always been a challenge. Today, with so many people connected to so many devices, the urge to be distracted is more difficult to resist than ever before. How many times have you seen people in meetings checking their phones or watches? How many people on virtu...

A key leadership focus is how to accelerate success. The very definition of leadership is leading...leading yourself and leading others. Emotions drive people, people drive performance. If you want better leadership outcomes, then gain the skills you need to better navigate and manage the emotional complexity in human dynamics and interactions. Emotional intelligence competencies and skills are th...

Growing your growth skills starts with creating and maintaining a growth mindset. Leaders are learners...and we are all leaders in some way. Knowing how to grow is just as important as knowing what to grow. Developing a growth mindset has a multi-dimensional impact. It impacts your own growth, then it cascades to the people around you. These are skills for a lifetime!

The secret to great leadership is for the leadership focus to be on developing leadership skills starting from within. Great leaders love to learn. They love to grow their leadership focus by developing new skills, enhancing current skills, and expanding their capacity and competence. Leadership is a set of perishable skills. These skills need to be practiced and applied regularly and consistently...

Leadership focus must be on the essentials of effective leadership. This starts with understanding the essence of leadership...what is at the very heart of leadership impact. This series on "Leadership Focus" will bring to light foundational skills and competencies of effective leadership. Leaders worth following have developed these skills and competencies, and practice them on a daily basis.

Leading with emotional intelligence culminates with social skills. The ability to bring people together around a shared purpose with shared goals, then influence them to achieve those goals relies on the social skills of the leader. Connecting, building trust, collaboration, communication, conflict resolution, and teamwork are all part of the social dynamics that leaders must be able to navigate e...

Leading with Emotional Intelligence has a superpower! Empathy. Empathy may be one of the most misunderstood skills a leader needs to be successful. It's not just about understanding the feelings of others. It is an entire practice that provides the leader with insight far greater than that of average leaders. Leading by listening is a key component of practicing empathy. But there is more...what d...

Leading with Emotional Intelligence means understanding Motivation. Motivation that you can count on comes from Intrinsic Motivators, not Extrinsic Motivators. What are those? Beliefs, values, and standards. The inner most drivers in all of us. Leading with emotional intelligence is about leveraging these in yourself as a leader and then drawing that out of your team members. Emotional intelligenc...

Leading with emotional intelligence starts with self-awareness, and then moves to self-regulation. The ability to regulate your own emotions and reactions has a direct impact on your leadership impact. The better your ability to practice self-regulation, the more effecting you will be at leading with emotional intelligence. Be the leader that others want to follow. Be a leader worth following.

Leading with emotional intelligence starts with self-awareness. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence and includes the ability to define and understand the emotions you have and the impact they have on you. It also includes the ability to understand how you are "showing up" for other people and how their emotions impact you. Leaders with high emotional intelligence can naviga...

Leading with emotional intelligence is the most effective way to connect, build trust, and enhance influence. When people know their feelings and perspectives are taken into account, they are more engaged and aligned with leadership. Yes, it has to be genuine, but the ROI for leading with emotional intelligence is far greater than the effort needed to do it. For leaders, there is a personal benefi...

Leaders who understand capacity as a skill, can grow capacity in themselves and in others. Capacity enhanced opens the door to greater competency. The cycle is simple: prepare then grow, prepare then grow. The preparation happens when leaders leverage capacity as a skill and practice it. This is a form of continuous improvement.