emotional intelligence survey
It is October 1995 that Daniel Goleman's book 'Emotional Intelligence' is introduced and published by Bantam Books USA. Six Seconds, based on his views, is a non profit American  organization founded in 1997 and dedicated to bring emotional intelligence into practice in schools, families, organizations, and communities. Their mission is to support people to make a positive difference - everywhere - all the time. Joshua Freedman, chief operating officer and master trainer of this Six Seconds organisation, just publishes its 2010 workplaces issues report called 'what

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                           writing brothers
Within five month after publishing their book 'brothers do mourn also', coordinated by Minke Weggemans - a former CCI trainer - 12 of the 27 authors of 27 stories meet for the second time (March 6, 2010). The first meeting was November 9 2009, half an hour before the introduction of their book, as reported here. There only was time for a short round of names, age, based where and title of their story. The 6 of March there was more time to spend for a more personal introduction in Baarn, close to the village Soesterberg where the last Dutch CCI Europe meeting in 2007 was. From 11AM until 2 PM the twelve were occupied by their sharing round. This was preceded by a short introduction of Minke, telling that the six edition of her first book 'the loss of a brother or sister' is on its way and that the second edition of the book with the stories of 38 sisters is coming. The translation in German of the first of her three books is on its way as well, and especially in scientific circles there is more attention needed for the mourning process of the loss of brothers and sisters in a family. There is a lack of money and attention in that field.
This group of authors decide to use internet for their internal communication by reporting in September and February by a - in the meantime created - weblog. They will pay special attention to their personal development in this field, as well as attention for their companions in these circumstances, and the social need to find room and attention for this kind of mourning in our society.

future directed
In their personal contribution it was - anyway for me - remarkable to observe how they were directed to the future. As about 'the good feeling' after creating in words what emotionally was on top and developed within. The mutual sharing with those who have 'the same' need; the experience that sharing rounds are productive and enrich our awareness. To experience the power of starting to write on an empty piece of paper, and the acknowledgement that it is OK to perceive our feelings. The same is to become aware how meetings like this energizes each personally. In whatever way! And last but not least, to realize that wording feelings heal and honour the source of these feelings. These experiences transform the survival finally into life!          niek (03-15) 

are the top issues in organizations to day'. This publication 'captures input from 279 leaders and employees from a variety of sectors around the globe'.
Six Seconds invited those leaders to identify the key challenges in the workplace today - and particularly 'the people side' of it. The survey explores top issues and nowadays are 65% of the pressing issues on 'the people side' and 35% on the financial/technical side. In 2007 this was 76 versus 24%. The most pressing challenge today is maintaining a healthy culture under intense economic pressure. And respondents identify several aspects of leadership as the key to this, especially vision, feedback, and communication. Getting and keeping good people - especially 'people people' - will make the difference' they say. And 89% of the respondents said feelings are highly important or essential in solving the problems they face. Only 8% of the respondents report that they're fully trained to deal with the issues they're seeing.
Training, coaching and mentoring are all seen as valuable to cope with the situations of to day. Coaching is 6% more needed than training and mentoring 12% more needed than training is the result. Respondents see, that emotions are a major component of the problems they describe, and that emotional intelligence is extremely important for solving the organizational challenges. But the emotional intelligence  development is not yet an organizational priority.
The regions where the responses came from are: Canada and USA 62%, Europe 12%, Oceania 12%, Middle East 11%, Central and South America 2% and Africa 1%. The participants came for 31% from the executive level, 26% upper manager, 15% team manager, 19% middle manager and 9% line manager. Summarizing they say: 'People are uncertain and distressed; they perceive very serious 'people needs' but don't see organizations making those a priority. While people understand that their organizations are in 'survival mode', they don't like how it feels. There is widespread recognition that this difficult combination will lead to a dangerous loss of talent'.
                                             Thanks for this survey that makes so clear how important
                                             emotions, also on the shop floor, are!    niek (03-15)

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