This question is one that I often get and with my background as a clinical psychologist and therapist I have experienced first hand, over and over again, that indeed, people can change , people can get better and people can be more successful at reaching their goals whether those goals are of a personal or
Emotional Intelligence – Personality Same or Different? What the research says: EI is a distinct construct from personality. Can predict performance above and beyond measures of personality (Petrides, Furnham, 2001) Some overlap (Leary,et al., 2009) Meta-analysis: Some overlap but “EI does add incremental validity over personality, yet personality does not add incremental validity over EI.”
In this blog I will try to bring some clarity to IQ, EQ and Personality. What is Intelligence (IQ)? A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow
One of the most frequent questions we get when it comes to Emotional Intelligence is; How does EQ and personality compare ? What about personality tests and EQ tests -and IQ tests?? At a Kandidata Asia networking meeting in Singapore recently I addressed that question and I think it deserves a post on this blog
After much anticipation, I am pleased to announce the release of the long awaited new EQ-i 2.0 Leadership Report. The new EQ-i 2.0 Leadership Report was created with a flexible framework that aligns itself to almost any leadership model and is rich with leadership-specific information. It is designed to use with leaders who want
In 1954 Abraham Maslow presented his hierarchy of needs model. He basically said that one must satisfy lower level basic needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs. The needs, that we all have, can be divided into basic needs (e.g. physiological, safety, love, and esteem) and growth needs (cognitive, aesthetics and self-actualization).
