Can Emotional Intelligence Be Trained?
That is the primary question. Now that emotional intelligence is well established as a major net positive in virtually every profession, what can be done to raise one’s emotional intelligence? The most...
View ArticleEmotional Intelligence Makes You Run Faster and Play Harder and Win!
If there were any question as to whether emotional intelligence positively impacts every endeavor, research has recently verified that even athletes benefit from EI. A study of marathon runners showed...
View ArticleAddressing Firms’ Greatest Challenge
A recent survey by Robert Half Legal found that 83% of law firm respondents noted increasing demand over the last year for legal services. That is a welcome new trend after years of lower demand and...
View ArticleKirkland & Ellis On Board for Mental Health
Only a month after Morgan Lewis announced hiring its “Well-Being Director,” Kirkland & Ellis unveiled a firm-wide Wellbeing Program for its 2,500 attorneys and staff to help address mental health...
View ArticleMuir to be Inducted into the College of Law Practice Management
We are proud to announce that Ronda Muir has been chosen as a Fellow-Elect of the College of Law Practice Management, with her induction to take place at the College’s 2019 Futures Conference on...
View ArticleImportant Steps Toward Developing Lawyers’ Emotional Intelligence
There’s a reason that SAP, Google, Aetna and IBM all have Chief Mindfulness Officers–they are explicitly trying to address the emotional fallout among their ranks in tech-revolutionized workplaces. But...
View ArticleMental Health and Technology in the Law
An interesting confluence is happening in the area of mental health. Technology is offering ways to recognize mental health issues that could benefit from remediation and also paths along which help...
View ArticleEmotional Intelligence and Effective Leadership
The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) recently identified empathy, a component of emotional intelligence, as critical to the most effective leadership, particularly during this very stressful time...
View ArticleFurther Doubt Cast on Implicit Bias Training
Following up on our post of November 18, 2020, from across the pond comes further questioning of the value of implicit bias training. Ministers in the UK government have scrapped the training for...
View ArticleHow Managers Can Help Healing
There’s no question that stress has taken a tremendous toll on lawyers during the pandemic. In many cases the level of work has ramped up, with lawyers trapped in their homes or some other location,...
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