Are you passive, assertive, or aggressive?

Your communication style is important to recognize and define, as it affects how people react to you and how they address your needs. In the workplace, it can be especially important to know how you are communicating (and thus how you are perceived) … [Read more...]

Our Brains Create More Conflict Than We Do

According to researchers of the brain, we all make most decisions based on emotions and passions. Surprising, right? It challenges the common notion that we are logical decision-makers, and that emotions (when uncontrolled) are part of the immature … [Read more...]

Successful Leaders Put the Team First

There is a shift in the environment we all share. By environment I refer to the mental models and ideas shared by the majority of us at the same time. One of those tenets has been the model offered to young people about how to be a leader: pursuing … [Read more...]

Learning to Tolerate Other’s Views

After time and time again spent confronting others, we end up with a confrontational attitude, where we focus on the "I" versus "others"; "I will defend my rights,” “Nobody trespasses against me," “I will get even." Sometimes this is the … [Read more...]

Can Emotional Fitness Be Taught? Yes!

How do we teach children to manage their own emotions? Can this be done in school or better is left to the family? Emotional education may not succeed as well in schools as in families, as seen in studies where curriculum about emotions has given … [Read more...]