Noggin Blog
Noggin: an organizational Corpus Callosum
It’s one thing getting to know ourselves on trainings, away days and company retreats. Or maybe we ‘go deep’ on a yoga holiday and feel refreshed by opening up, to ourselves and to others, in a new way. But what about landing back in the real world? In the workplace? Around our families? Our siblings? Staying in touch with ourselves
EQ3 & our CEO’s first driving lesson
We’re going to stick our necks out and say something radical and revolutionary: It’s not about emotional intelligence. To succeed in the world we are shaping, knowing about emotions and relationships isn’t enough. Emotional intelligence might suffice in a theory exam, but in today’s complex relational landscape we need to move beyond popular psychology. We’ve got to have emotions and
Emotional Competence for Millennials: 3 ways to make them ‘Ready for Anything’
As more and more millennials enter the employment market it’s natural that organisations begin to rise to the challenge of attracting and retaining the best of them. It also follows that many millennial’s will start to occupy the management ranks within organisations and find themselves on the front line with people to lead. But if you were to ask a
3 Steps to Mentoring Nirvana (and the last step is the most important!).
3 Steps to Mentoring Nirvana (and the last step is the most important!). On Nov 9th we ran a mentoring event at the Soho hotel in London to showcase our approach to getting the most from your mentoring programmes. Thanks to all those who came along to make it a great success, and sorry to those who couldn’t make it.
Don’t be a Trump: Reflections on the final Presidential Debate
Don’t be a Trump: Reflections on the final Presidential Debate After last weeks presidential debate we gave you a loose evaluation on how we thought the candidates got on. We used our ABC model for emotional competence to offer our sense on how each candidate left their audience feeling. Having watched last night’s we noticed something else. Reflecting on Donald
3 Things Presidential Candidates Ignore at their Peril
3 Things Presidential Candidates Ignore at their Peril As you probably noticed, at the end of our last blog, we gave an inadvertent reference away to Bill Clinton and our slight obsession with the US presidential race. It should come as no surprise then that today we want to talk about the debates. Here at Noggin, we are passionate about
Learning from the Olympics: Top Tip 2 for Applying the Marginal Gains Philosophy to your Organisation
Learning from the Olympics: Top Tip 2 for Applying the Marginal Gains Philosophy to your Organisation Following on from top tip 1 about making decisions based on what’s important to you right now, we have another example to share on how to apply the marginal gains philosophy to your organisation. This second example is from the sport of boxing. Accelerating
Learning from the Olympics: Top Tip 1 for Applying the Marginal Gains Philosophy to your Organisation
Learning from the Olympics: Top Tip 1 for Applying the Marginal Gains Philosophy to your Organisation We’ve been getting excited here at Noggin about how we can apply the marginal gains philosophy to organisations. It is widely acknowledged that marginal gains, the small changes in an athletes behaviour amplified across lots of areas, has been one of the key mechanisms
Learning from the Olympics: Establishing a Culture of Coaching in your Organisation
Learning from the Olympics: Establishing a Culture of Coaching in your Organisation We loved watching the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics and were fascinated by what we saw many of the athletes do upon immediately winning their respective events. Did any of you notice how many of the medalist’s thanked their coach and supporter’s at interview? “I’d like to thank
Can emotional intelligence be learnt – or is it instinctive?
Can emotional intelligence be learnt – or is it instinctive? By Ben Houghton, Director and founder of Noggin I read a fascinating article in the Independent recently. It suggested that if we have high emotional intelligence and use it to influence our behaviour, we can get more from our interactions with others. By high emotional intelligence I mean good at