Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Lens for Developing and Evaluating Leadership
By Marcy Levy Shankman and Scott J. Allen As leadership developers we spend a great deal of time thinking about how to develop leadership. Whether it is EIL or any other model, the development of leadership is in some ways the great mystery. After all, scholars and practitioners alike have puzzled about how to evaluate … Read more
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: The Three Facets
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: The Three Facets Marcy Levy Shankman, PhD Scott J. Allen, PhD Over the last twenty years of working with young people, we have seen students, and those working with students, wonder how to make sense of what leadership means and how to improve one’s leadership style. Our model of emotionally intelligent leadership … Read more
Upcoming 2011 EIL Conference Keynote Speakers
Marcy Levy Shankman, Ph.D. has been training and consulting in leadership development and organizational effectiveness with higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, and high schools since 1998. Marcy applies her unique insights and capabilities to deliver meaningful and lasting impact for individuals and organizations interested in improving their effectiveness. In her consulting practice, she specializes in … Read more
Emotionally Intelligence and Its Importance
By Marcy Levy Shankman, PhD & Scott J. Allen, PhD In a recent conversation that we had with our students, one of them said, “Today was one of those days where I just wish I could have taken back what I said because once those words came out of my mouth, trouble began.” This student … Read more
Coaching with The Leadership Challenge® for Educators
Coaching as a Leadership Development Tool Whist traditional approaches to leadership development provide a variety of benefits, they do have some limitations: While participants receive many good ideas from training programmes, many do not obtain the follow-up support to transfer that learning into their real life situations. In many cases, there is either minimal or … Read more
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (The Choice is Yours) Programme
Timeless Training for the Turbulent Teenage Years The programme is designed to help students succeed both in and out of the classroom. It is easy to get lost in the struggle with the ups and downs and important choices that they have to make every day. From getting along with parents to making friends, from … Read more
Work-Life Balance? What is that?
Many of us would have heard this phrase bandied about at some time or other. Dictionary.com defines work-life balance as “…the achievement of equality between time spent working and one’s personal life”. Now, I don’t know about you, but that somehow strikes me as rather odd. Are we supposed to apportion equal amounts of time … Read more
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow by Jim Rohn
The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today. Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. The question is what did we do with its opportunity? All too often we will waste tomorrow as we wasted yesterday, and as we are wasting today. All that could have been accomplished can easily … Read more
The Eye of the Beholder
Do you make sure that you are properly dressed even when you’re going to the wet market? Or perhaps you’d rather dress down and are perfectly happy in a singlet and an old pair of shorts when you’re selecting your fish and other marketing items like vegetables, fruits and perhaps soya-based food items? Do you … Read more
The Way of the Giver
When the concept of giving is brought to mind, what is the first thing that occurs to you? Is it philanthropy, which many people mistakenly take to be reserved for the materially wealthy, welfare organizations, volunteering for social causes, etc? Well, all of these ARE manifestations of giving; observable acts of generosity. What comes to … Read more
