1: The business case for writing skills: You achieve many results by writing. Your team works through text. You hate meetings and you probably can’t reach people by phone without playing telephone tag. They are on another floor, in another building, across the city, state or planet. Text, text, text: the information is on the [...]
Collaborative intelligence
First there was IQ, then emotional intelligence. Studies show that EQ still beats IQ as a factor in business success, but now there is a new predictor for business that win, people that succeed, and economic achievement. CQ, or collaborative intelligence, combines the ability to think well, and to think collaboratively with other people. It [...]
Positive Psychology: ASTD Report
The Suncoast ASTD OD Sig met with Lisa Jacobson, from Univ. of Pennsylvania, who is working with Dr. Martin Seligman, Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center. Lisa’s presentation focused on how the hard science of positive psychology research can help to create: a. better thinking, judgment, deductive reasoning and creativity b. durably [...]



