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2020--A Year to Forget The Holiday season is a time for reflection and thinking about what went well, and maybe what didn’t go so well over the past year. For most people, 2020 has been one of the craziest years of their lives. While there are many things that have gone incredibly wrong, there are
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Bringing Emotional Intelligence into Sports
by OKA's Harris Fanaroff, Director of Client Relationships Emotional Intelligence & Sports An active athlete for as long as I can remember, I always used to think about how I could involve sports in my future career. Now—almost a decade into my professional life, I have a career in
EQ Goes to the Movies–Emotional Self-Awareness
Emotional Self-Awareness can be hard to see Having always been a fan of movies--and using movies to support my training and coaching, I am always on the lookout for good, juicy clips that illustrate the kinds of behaviors that we at OKA teach and talk about. Emotional Intelligence lends itself--as
EQ Goes to the Movies–EQ’s Big 3
EQ's Behaviors are not all equal The EQ-i model of Emotional Intelligence details 15 elements that make up the behavioral face we each show the world--what we look and sound like to the people around us. Three of these 15 elements/behaviors are highly correlated with each other. This subset of
EQ Goes to the Movies–Finding Your Voice
Developing EQ One of the things that makes Emotional Intelligence and the EQ-i so powerful is the platform they give us not just to understand, but to work on and get better at the behaviors with which we struggle. Movies and TV shows can provide great examples of the kind of focus and effort it