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After surveying more than one million employees at a wide range of companies, New York Times bestselling authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton found that gratitude—when done right—is the easiest, fastest, cheapest way that managers can boost performance and employee engagement. Yet it’s also one of the most misunderstood and misapplied skills in business.

Gostick and Elton solve the mystery of this “gratitude gap” in their new book LEADING WITH GRATITUDE: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results (March 3, 2020; HarperBusiness). Their research shows that very few bosses intentionally bully. The problem is usually misperception or lack of awareness. These leaders have no idea how hard their people work, what challenges they face, or how much they would benefit from sincere and explicit gratitude. They also don’t know how to show gratitude effectively or sincerely.

Today we have more intense emotions and a sense of overwhelm causing all of us stress. Leaders are dealing with so much more than they have in the past. Stress in America study tells us 47% of people are experiencing Anxiety, 44% are sad, 39% are angry, while 75% of us feel we could use more emotional support. For much of that support, they are turning to their leaders who now need more counseling and coaching skills. What are they and we to do with this abundance of emotions and feelings? Today Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will take a deeper look at how you manage these feelings. In our Emotional Brilliance book, we presented a model of dealing with them called NAME. Notice and Name, Accept, Manage and Express. We will look at the M for Manage, Managing your thoughts and actions which will help regulate these feelings. What is causing the most stress today from a recent American Psychological Association study is: • Inflation (e.g., gas prices, energy bills, grocery costs): 87% • Supply chain issues: 81% • Global uncertainty: 81% • Potential retaliation from Russia (e.g., cyberattacks, nuclear threats): 80% • Russian invasion of Ukraine: 80% For more leadership tools go to: www.emotionalbrilliance.com

Michael is the Senior Partner and Founder of Box of Crayons. Box of Crayons helps organizations around the world do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their training programs give time-crunched managers the tools to coach in 10 minutes or less. Michael is the author of a number of books, including the best-selling Do More Great Work. His book and philanthropic project End Malaria, collected essays by thought leaders and through its sale raised $400,000 for Malaria No More. br He's also a popular speaker, and as well as speaking at such organizations as Google, GSK and TD Bank is constantly top ranked at conferences such as HRPA, Evanta, The Conference Board of Canada and CSTD. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University his only real success was falling in love with a Canadian (and now wife of 20 years). br Listen to an engaging conversation with Michael and Relly about coaching, the power of the questions and Michael's 7 coaching questions from his new book: The Coaching Habit.

Michael is the Senior Partner and Founder of Box of Crayons. Box of Crayons helps organizations around the world do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their training programs give time-crunched managers the tools to coach in 10 minutes or less. Michael is the author of a number of books, including the best-selling Do More Great Work. His book and philanthropic project End Malaria, collected essays by thought leaders and through its sale raised $400,000 for Malaria No More.

He’s also a popular speaker, and as well as speaking at such organizations as Google, GSK, and TD Bank is constantly top-ranked at conferences such as HRPA, Evanta, The Conference Board of Canada, and CSTD. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, his only real success was falling in love with a Canadian (and now wife of 20 years).

Listen to an engaging conversation with Michael and Relly about coaching, the power of the questions, and Michael’s 7 coaching questions from his new book: The Coaching Habit.

Dr. Dan Goleman author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: Attention.

In his new book Focus, he uncovers the science of attention in all its varieties – presenting a groundbreaking look at this overlooked and underrated asset, and why it matters enormously for how we feel, and succeed, in life.

Dr. Goleman’s most recent books are The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights and Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence (www.MoreThanSound.net). He integrates findings from neuroscience with emotional intelligence.

For practical techniques to increase focus, Dr. Goleman created the CD Cultivating Focus: Techniques for Excellence, a series of guided exercises to help people hone their concentration, stay calm and better manage emotions.

More info go to: www.morethansound.net

The pandemic has changed our work world and has presented

overwhelming challenges for leaders to be understanding, visionary,

empathic and motivate a diverse workforce and stay focused themselves.More employers plan to add remote work options, too, with increased empathy for workers’ daily challenges. All told, major changes are here to stay, and

employers think the future looks brighter. In fact, over one-fourth (27%) plan to hire at higher volumes than before the pandemic. So motivating yourself and the people you lead are critical for leaders. How do you do it? What do you focus on? Which competencies are most important to improve? We will share research on motivation that helps you and your direct report to be their best. Employees who feel their voice is heard at work are 4.6 times more likely to feel empowered to perform their best work (Salesforce). Go to www.eblifebook.com/academy for your free white paper template and more information.

We have recent great examples of both emotional reactions of losing control and IQ points with devastating effects and demonstrating Emotional Brilliance – doing just the right think at the right time. Over 16 million people watched the Academy Awards on March 27th. It was a phenomenal exhibit of the power of emotional awareness and management at the moment. These are the foundations of emotional intelligence. We saw Will Smith lose it, and Chris Rock stay calm and professional. This is an opportunity for Dr. Relly Nadler and Dr. Cathy Greenberg to unpack some of the learnings and highlight some elements that you can use to prevent losing it and the negative consequences that may follow. We will explore some of the Hijack First Aid prevention tools we have in our Emotional Brilliance: Living a Stress Less and Fear Less book, including the NAME process, The Emotional Audit, Trigger Trip Ups, and Recharging Rituals to name a few. Tune in to tune up your performance and also Get your 11 Reasons Why You Need Emotional Intelligence ebook at www.emotionalbrilliance.com

We have recent great examples of both emotional reactions of losing control and IQ points with devastating effects and demonstrating Emotional Brilliance – doing just the right think at the right time.

Over 16 million people watched the Academy Awards on March 27th. It was a phenomenal exhibit of the power of emotional awareness and management at the moment. These are the foundations of emotional intelligence.

We saw Will Smith lose it, and Chris Rock stay calm and professional. This is an opportunity for Dr. Relly Nadler and Dr. Cathy Greenberg to unpack some of the learnings and highlight some elements that you can use to prevent losing it and the negative consequences that may follow.

We will explore some of the Hijack First Aid prevention tools we have in our Emotional Brilliance: Living a Stress Less and Fear Less book, including the NAME process, The Emotional Audit, Trigger Trip Ups, and Recharging Rituals to name a few. Tune in to tune up your performance and also Get your 11 Reasons Why You Need Emotional Intelligence ebook at www.emotionalbrilliance.com

Today we have more intense emotions and a sense of overwhelm causing all of us stress. Leaders are dealing with so much more than they have in the past. Stress in America study tells us 47% of people are experiencing Anxiety, 44% are sad, 39% are angry, while 75% of us feel we could use more emotional support. For much of that support, they are turning to their leaders who now need more counseling and coaching skills. What are they and we to do with this abundance of emotions and feelings? Today Drs. Greenberg and Nadler will take a deeper look at how you manage these feelings. In our Emotional Brilliance book, we presented a model of dealing with them called NAME. Notice and Name, Accept, Manage and Express. We will look at the M for Manage, Managing your thoughts and actions which will help regulate these feelings. What is causing the most stress today from a recent American Psychological Association study is: • Inflation (e.g., gas prices, energy bills, grocery costs): 87% • Supply chain issues: 81% • Global uncertainty: 81% • Potential retaliation from Russia (e.g., cyberattacks, nuclear threats): 80% • Russian invasion of Ukraine: 80% For more leadership tools go to: www.emotionalbrilliance.com

What do we know about the brain’s working, what is myth and what is on the cutting edge. Learn what is the current neuroscience thinking. Mark Waldman is the author of 14 books, including the national bestseller How God Changes Your Brain which Oprah selected as one of the nine Must Read books for 2012. Mark is on the Executive MBA faculty at Loyola Marymount University where he created one of the first NeuroLeadership programs in the country. He is also on the faculty of Holmes Institute where he teaches a ministerial training course on “Spirituality and the Brain.” His neuroscience research on consciousness, communication, and spirituality have been published in journals throughout the world. And his work has been featured in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, and Oprah Magazine, and many others. He has appeared on 100s of radio and television programs, including PBS and NPR, and his TEDx Talk has been viewed by more than 100,000 people.