We are sure you will agree with us: setting up a company is no easy task. And doing so in the midst of an economic crisis verges on pure recklessness. Well, that is exactly what Mihaela and yours truly did ten years ago. While the music of recession was playing on all TV sets and radios, we wrote the score for a business project – and almost a life one too! Ibiza pioneers Talking…
It’s Monday. Your mug still gives off the smell of freshly brewed coffee. The phone rings. You pick it up, fighting the slowness that comes with the first hours of Monday – it’s a customer calling: 140 people, an event of European scope, a company with delegations in seven countries and global presence and, on top of it, just a few weeks to organize it. You may imagine…
Throughout the last weeks we have been talking about friends and enemies of team cohesion. Today we bring you an infographic that summarizes the concepts: If you want us to expand some information, you want to propose a topic for future posts, or, you want to tell us your experience, we invite you to leave…
A few days ago we told you about the factors that help turning a group into a cohesive team. Today, we deal with the complete opposite: the enemies of cohesion. Investing efforts in achieving cohesion is as important as overcoming the obstacles that prevent us from attaining it. Factors that hinder cohesion You must pay close attention to detecting any…
A few days ago we told you about the jewel in the crown of staff management: cohesion. Today we continue to expand our knowledge on this important challenge. In particular, we will see what and how various factors have an influence when trying to achieve it. Factors that influence cohesion We must start from the premise that there is no…
Internal cohesion is, perhaps, one of the most sought after goals for any leader. Unfortunately —or luckily, actually— it does not depend, as some argue, on chance. Cohesion must be worked on daily and from multiple perspectives. We searched for a specialist-sanctioned definition and found that it is “a dynamic process reflected in the group’s tendency to stay and…
With this post, we close a series of articles where we have tried to summarize what Emotional Intelligence is and how it is determined. Benefits of emotional intelligence Today we’ll talk about the benefits that a good strategy based on this area of industrial psychology brings to the business world. There are numerous studies that demonstrate that Emotional Intelligence in the…
A few days ago we talked to you about Emotional Intelligence and described the skills that Reuver Bar-On established to create a model capable of measuring this psychosocial capacity. Today, we will detail the factors that make up each of these skills. Factors that determine EI For each skill, Bar-On establishes a set of factors to take into account in its…
We start a series of articles on one of the aspects that can best affect how your company functions: emotional intelligence. Through these publications, we will try to get you closer to this exciting —and still under study— field of industrial psychology. Let’s start by explaining what we really mean when we talk about EI. What…
A few days ago we mentioned Team Building and promised to explain its key elements. We usually establish these as the “5 Ds“: Decision, Diagnosis, Difference, Delight and Day by Day: Decision The implementation of TB strategies must be decided by the company’s top management. Since we cannot be OK with just an isolated experience…