Feeling Misunderstood? Developing Emotional Self-Awareness Could Help. emotional intelligence

If you have ever encountered someone with a shocking lack of empathy (and we all have), chances are good that they also struggle with Emotional...

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Bored, Uninspired, and Stuck: Searching for Self-Actualization emotional intelligence

We have all felt this way at times: we’re bored. New ideas feel “meh.” We have no sense that we’re getting anywhere. What...

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Overcome Self-Doubt: How to Build Self-Regard emotional intelligence

Low Self-Regard, often a by-product of perfectionism, will make you miserable and rob the world of your gifts in the process. Let's not allow that...

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The EQ-i 2.0® Model of Emotional Intelligence emotional intelligence

To understand complex traits like emotional intelligence or personality, we create theoretical models. These models are useful not only in...

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Can You Define Emotion? emotional intelligence

We know what you're thinking: TLDR. But don't give up! It's a five-minute read - a thousand words to answer a very big question that has a very big...

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Mornings with Martha: Things Turn Out... mornings with martha

Need to call employees back to the office? Or maybe you're being called back yourself? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker offers a quick, positive...

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What Is Emotional Intelligence? emotional intelligence

What is emotional intelligence and why do we care?

Retexo offers tools for personal, interpersonal, and cultural growth. The context in which we...

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Mornings with Martha: The Importance of Positive Feedback mornings with martha

"You will never get people to perform better by making them feel worse." Retexo co-owner Martha Walker explores a different approach to the topic...

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We Got Hacked

We got hacked. And while IT security is certainly not our typical blog content, I thought it worth sharing in hope that it might spare a fellow...

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Mornings with Martha: Avoiding the Ego Trap mornings with martha

Does your instinct to defend and protect who you are, today, thwart your ability to grow into who you need to become? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker...

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Mornings with Martha: They Climb Highest mornings with martha

Leaders, supervisors, managers... Does your job description include "lifting people up"? Why would it? What's in it for you? Retexo co-owner Martha...

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Mornings with Martha: New Beginnings mornings with martha

Need a redo? A "redemption round"? Retexo co-owner Martha Walker discusses New Beginnings in business (and in the rest of our lives). What can you...

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Untangling Personality Tests

Personality tests, and personality psychology in general, are topics fraught with disagreement and controversy. In fact, it was only after much...

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The Clearing

Witness, in this image, both the beginning and the end of my conversation with this suspicious whitetail buck. As soon as his eyes locked with...

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Bats and the Impossibility of Empathy

I can still hear the soft pops of rain falling on the brim of my hat as I walked along a muddy trail through a dark forest in Costa Rica lowlands,...

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What We're Reading: Projections by Karl Deisseroth

I am not the first to predict that Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, will someday be taking an all-expenses-paid trip to Stockholm in December.

Dr....

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The Fundamental Attribution Error

Middle management is a tricky business. And by “middle,” I mean those treacherous roles where you are not the CEO and sole proprietor,...

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Why Would an Executive Coach Attend a Trauma Conference?

Throughout our relationship, Martha has established a consistent pattern of signing me up for things I would never do on my own. And while this...

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Are You Painting Tigers?

Imagine the most stereotypical cave-dwelling monk you can muster. Let’s call him Chuck. Chuck the Monk was long-haired, bony, slightly...

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Keep Your People: How to Navigate the Great Resignation

Employee expectations have fundamentally shifted during the pandemic. As a result, organizations can expect large talent shifts to occur in the...

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New Website Launch

Alas! It has been many, many months in the making, but our new(est) website is now LIVE! I don’t know if any of you have ever had to market...

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