EQ Information & Articles

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Here you'll find free informative articles explaining different aspects of EQ (emotional intelligence) that are written in Stephanie's friendly, easy to read style.

• Kili-ing the Inner Princess
  The trials and tribulations of summiting the highest free-standing mountain in the world: Africa’s own Mount Kilimanjaro.

• No More Ms Nice Person
  How self-sacrificing behaviour in women grants men permission to behave badly.

• New Year, New Life Choices
  Goals are more than writing a few thoughts down on paper, they give explicit instructions to the creative mind.

• If One Life Breathes Easier…
  Human beings strive to be happy, but what is it that really makes people’s lives happy and fulfilling?

• Black or White?
  How one individual was able to count his blessings through adversity.

• Business Case: Work/Life Balance
  How family-friendly business strategies contribute significantly to bottom-line.

• Humanising Business
  Are people really treated like they are business’ most important asset?

• Are You Worth Your Salt?
  Why the global change in the working world is forcing people to become more self-reliant.

• Emotional Intelligence for Business Growth
  How EQ skills can benefit South Africa’s healing and economic growth.

• Rambo Is Dead. Long Live Masculinity.
  Q & A about redefining masculinity in a rapidly changing world.

• The Soul of the Businesswoman
  Emotional conflicts faced by women in business.

• Leadership: Art or Act?
  Does leadership require people to be effective human beings or is it about playing a role as a ‘human doing’?

• Stop Whining. Start Winning.
  A message to South Africans on the launch of National Be Positive Day

• EQ: a key tool for success
  Is Emotional Intelligence a contradiction in terms or a set of practical life skills that can be learnt?

• Emotionally Intelligent Parenting
  Raising children with a healthy level of EQ requires parents to lead by example.

• Ego versus EQ
  Is leadership about having power over other people, or having power over oneself?

• Emotional Gender Differences
  Are men and women really that different or have these differences been exaggerated by traditional social conditioning?

• Busy Business
  How and why being stressed makes more of a popular fashion statement than Versace.

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Stephanie Vermeulen of The Effective Training Corporation runs practical training programmes on Applied EQ (emotional intelligence) in business and public forums as well as being an inspiring and motivational conference speaker and personal coach.

Her books, Stitched-up: Who Fashions Women’s Lives? and EQ: Emotional Intelligence for Everyone are available from all leading bookstores and online from Amazon and Kalahari. She can be contacted on:

Phone: +27 11 486 1211

e-mail: steph@eqsa.co.za

website: www.theeqsite.co.za or www.eqsa.co.za