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Peter is certified by the internationally recognized Center for Executive Coaching and a member of the International Coaching Federation. He primarily uses Genos International EI assessment tools and is a certified Genos Practitioner. But Peter also uses other workplace behavior models, like ProfileXT, for specific use cases.

Effective leaders save money and support more productive and efficient workplaces. Recent survey data in the Capgemini report on Emotional Intelligence and the future workforce are compelling. It shows that organizations can expect returns between 2 times to 4 times higher for investing in EI development. 

Who was your best leader or boss?

Just think of the best leaders you’ve worked for or heard of … what qualities made them great leaders? It won’t surprise you to learn that 93% of success comes from trust, integrity, authenticity, honesty, creativity, presence, and resilience, according to a UCLA leadership study. These are key EI competencies. And almost certainly they’re what you admire about the leaders who came to mind.

Leadership lives in the fullest connection between people to achieve shared purpose.

Higher Education and Knowledge Industry Leadership

Organizations that tend to promote leaders and managers from within need to be strategic. Academia and knowledge industries like tech and engineering firms MUST manage talent development early and invest in people. Since EI is such a performance factor in all areas of leadership, and since the consequences are so severe for leaders who are ill-suited or ill-trained for their role, the return on investment for EI leadership development is inevitably large. But it’s more than that. If you invest early and broadly, you also can affect the dynamics of teams. Investing in leaders is excellent. Investing in teams is smart.

In fact, there is no single investment that can bring a more productive and deeper positive change to workplace culture. EI coaching for you and your leadership team, present and future, is the most important investment you can make for long-term organizational success.

“I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.” Jacinda Ardern

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What do you think about when you hear the word #mi What do you think about when you hear the word #mindfulness?

Mindfulness and #meditation are not the same thing. It's true - meditation can be mindful and mindfulness can be practiced in meditation. But they are simply not the same thing. I work with clients who have had such bad experiences with #mindfulnesspractice that used #meditating, shamed or ashamed because they found sitting painful or because they couldn't still their minds, or because closing their eyes in that context activated a stress response. Partly this is bad teaching, but also it is a confusion of practice. The "failure" is not theirs, but the result is that they resist #emotionalintelligence development and other kinds of #mindfulnessatwork training. 

Meditation is a specific kind of mindfulness. Mindfulness is being powerfully #aware of your self in the present moment, deliberatively non-judgmental, balancing #equanimity and #purpose in decisions and actions.

#wellnessatwork #mindfulleadership #sitting #anywhere #everywhere #letsgetreal #wednesdaywisdom #genostribe
I love this quote from Epictetus about the "good f I love this quote from Epictetus about the "good flow of life"...

But it's not really that he's saying "go with the flow", he's talking about #contentment and #peaceofmind achieved through understanding what is #uptoyou. In #stoicphilosophy that phrase (up to you, epi soi) is not a release from social responsibility and definitely not a release from choosing right action. It is a call to action, a reminder that our human nature requires us to engage in the thing that makes us uniquely human - the capacity to choose our response, what is up to us, in the "flow" of life around us. A tighter translation of "good flow of life" might be "YOU will flow well". #stoicism is not, as it often is portrayed, an inhuman control of emotions - it is a full engagement with being human, a rational, spiritual animal.

My #genostribe friends will recognize #emotionalintelligence, #emotionalreasoning, #selfmanagement. Others will see connections to the ideas that inspire them. Me? I'm hoping for a good "flowday" ... #TGIF!

#fridayfeels #fridaythoughts #innercitadelconsulting #happiness
Why does #emotionalintelligence show up consistent Why does #emotionalintelligence show up consistently as "most needed" on all of the #futureofwork lists? Well, it'd be pretty easy to argue it's *always* been needed but we could also correlate the growing awareness of the need for #ei against the increasing use of #ai ...

I love this idea of the many YOUs you are. #Understanding, #perspective, #selfawareness ... when we have a better handle not only on how we show up at work, but how we transition between work and other relationships, we can begin to be more #resilient and be better #leaders. If you haven't had a workplace behavior assessment recently, I cannot recommend strongly enough that you get one. 

If you want to talk about the Genos International assessments, I'd be happy to connect. But (while I have strong opinions about what works and is #valid and #reliable), the key is to simply get a start. Your YOUs are worth it! And if you're leading teams as we all prepare to pivot back into workspaces... let's talk.

#personaldevelopment #leadership #growthmindset #wednesdaywisdom #genostribe
Why is it that the simplest things are sometimes s Why is it that the simplest things are sometimes so hard? I love this quote by the French Alphonse Karr (see below for the original quote) ... who among other things was a floriculturist.

Awareness in #emotionalintelligence training is not about hyper-focus, it's about a holistic perception and the choice to focus on a particular thing from a specific viewpoint, all within context. That's partly why I use Genos International assessments, which are context-rich. 

This ability to be contextually aware and to focus from a specific perspective is simple and sometimes hard to do. Like all skills, it gets better with #practice - #coachingworks too. Are you focusing so much on thorns you can't see the rose anymore?

“De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers épineux;
Moi je me réjouis et rends grâces aux dieux
Que les épines aient des roses.” 
from Voyage autour de mon jardin (1845).

#tuesdaythoughts #growthmindset #awarenessmatters #shiftyourmindset #genostribe #perspectiveshift #embracethejourney #roses
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