The Buzz in Leadership

For the past few years there have been many books and articles written about what makes leaders and managers most effective. Daniel Goleman, James Collins and others have made millions telling us how to succeed in business and charity.

We have notoriously short attention spans in America so everything must be boiled don to its shortest essence. So, success is summarized as: EQ or Emotional Intelligence.

EQ

I was fortunate to stumble into this topic when I was searching for a dissertation topic in 1974. A friend told me about a guy who was teaching on what was then called, The Core Conditions of a Helping Relationship and he suggested that I attend. I did and discovered all the research about the best ways to influence and change people in counseling, friendship, management, leadership, pastoral care and sales.

Dan Goleman saw the same research almost 30 years later and wrote his best selling book about EQ. (I wish I had said what he said and sold the books he sold!)

Like most popular movements, important insights have to be made simple, fun and easy. However, learning to live by the skills and attitudes of EQ requires a lot of hard work and practice. I have been teaching EQ skills since 1974 to parents, pastors and professional therapists and the classes called Apples of Gold have touched over 200,000 persons on every continent.

My latest book, Hope and Change for Humpty Dumpty, discusses these skills as well as how to use them at the right time in the right way to get the right results. (http://www.authorhouse.com/home.asp)

If you want to be effective in relationships as a lover, parent, partner, pastor or professional EQ is the key. If you want to have healthy, successful, resilient kids, teach them EQ.