This is a living collection of resources supporting the second day of my EMBA course, Personal Effectiveness. In this class, we move from Self-Awareness to Self-Management. Often, the first question is: How do I reflect? Here's a good suggestion

Building on the awareness of our own emotional landscape, self-confidence, resilience, optimism, energy, learning ability, motivation and happiness, we move to ask questions about how we regulate and develop them. How do we care for ourselves to be ready and successful in life and at work? What is happiness and how do we nurture it? How do we each learn best?

We explore many themes from the study of Emotional Intelligence and the field of Positive Psychology.

There are more resources on the Hogan Assessments page and notes on motivation concerning Career Strategy and Confidence

Self-control – what lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle

PERMAH Workplace Survey

Best Possible Self Exercise

Emotional Intelligence Quiz

The Emotional Agility Quiz

The Happiness Advantage

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment

What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't*: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Big Potential

Flourish

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Learned Optimism

The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism

Confidence: How Much You Really Need and How to Get It

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Shame v. Guilt

The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life.

The Upside of Stress

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

Work is not its own reward

Roy Baumeister - Willpower: Self-Control, Decision Fatigue, and Energy Depletion

Happiness as a Competitive Advantage

Happiness Advantage

Flow, the Secret of Happiness

Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Just Breathe

How to Practice Gratitude When You’re Not Feeling Thankful

How To Let Go of Anger

Want to live a happy life? Focus on your relationships

How to nap

Pliny the Younger on Happy and Honorable Seclusion

How to Help High Achievers Overcome Imposter Syndrome

How to tell if someone is faking it, according to science

Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It

You 2.0: Why We're Bad At Predicting Our Own Happiness — And How We Can Get Better

How to Help High Achievers Overcome Imposter Syndrome

Why We All Need Quiet Days

What’s the Difference Between Meaning and Happiness?

Feel free to stop striving: learn to relish being an amateur

4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time

When Do You Know You Are Emotionally Mature? 26 Signs of Emotional Maturity

An Alternative to Passive Aggression

Confident Vulnerability: Three Ways For Leaders To Inspire Others

Three Tips to Be More Intellectually Humble

Want to live a happy life? Focus on your relationships

How to Practice Gratitude When You’re Not Feeling Thankful

Don’t Objectify Yourself

Embracing Ambivalence

The Recipe for Success: Self-Control + Grit

To benefit from wonder, make sure you’ve got the genuine kind

The focus on misinformation leads to a profound misunderstanding of why people believe and act on bad information

Asking one simple question can entirely change how you feel

'Service with a smile' costs more than you think

When Survivorship Bias meets Superstitious Learning

Here’s how to feel less depleted at work, according to experts

The best guide to getting out of your own way

You 2.0: Why We're Bad At Predicting Our Own Happiness — And How We Can Get Better

Why 'emotional labor' matters (and how to support it better)

Are You Actually ‘So Busy,’ or Is It ‘Toxic Productivity’?

Reskilling: The Importance of Socioemotional Skills

8 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent People

Two Counterintuitive Ways to Stop Procrastinating

How Storytelling Can Offset Negative Effects of Discrimination

Navigating Feelings At Home And Work

Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness

Bias busters: When good intentions get derailed

Why talking to strangers is good for you, them and all of us

How to cope with shame

Why does it hurt so much when we get ghosted? A psychologist explains

The promotion emotion

Two faces of belonging…Possession and affiliation at work

These are the most effective ways to develop and use confidence at work

Duration doesn’t impact happiness, according to new research

How to rest well

Four Ways to Help Your Coworkers Feel Respected

Why are office parties so awkward?

Strategies for Managing Difficult Emotions at Work

Why it’s OK not to be perfect at work

How to complete an impossible challenge

Problems at work? Research says, take a holiday

What science says about having fun at work

Why self-understanding could be important for empathising well

How to Build Confidence About Showing Vulnerability

What We Can Learn from Sensation Seekers

The real reasons you procrastinate at work

8 Easy Ways to Reduce Back-to-Office Stress and Anxiety

How to Stay Open and Curious in Hard Conversations

I’m Not an Imposter — So Why Do I Feel Like One?

Leaning in to Vulnerability

Are Successful People More Neurotic?

How to revive your sense of wonder

How to Become Your Own Career Coach

10 Practical Ways to Improve Happiness

How to Connect With Your Future Self

In Praise of Anxiety

How to cope with social anxiety about returning to the office

How to Be Comfortable on Your Own in Public

A 63-Year-Old Runner Changed the Way I Think About Regret

How to Manage One's Moods

How to change your personality, according to science

Magical thinking and insurance: Taking out cover makes us feel that misfortune is less likely to occur

Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

Why We All Need Quiet Days

The 7 types of rest that every person needs

How we feel depends on what we pay attention to

How to get up fast after you fall

Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck

Love and Organization Studies: Moving beyond the Perspective of Avoidance

What Can We Learn from the Solace of ‘At Least’ and the Sting of ‘If Only’?

The Age of Anti-Ambition

Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning

Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

Would Popular Gender Diversity Interventions Pass The Science Test?

How to calm your inner storm

How I Let Go of a Lifelong Fear

Aphorisms on Confidence

The secret to self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life

Why some people grow from setbacks and others don't

The virtue of honesty requires more than just telling the truth

What We Learned From Two Giants of Positive Psychology

Want To Boost Your Wellbeing In 2022? Here’s What The Research Says

5 things emotionally intelligent managers do differently

How to channel boredom

Battling burnout: A conversation with resiliency expert Dr. Amit Sood

How to Be a Well-Functioning Extrovert in an Introverted World

Why aren’t successful people happier?

Where Did You Go, Flow?

When We Don’t Own the Things We Use, Will We Still Love Them?

Scroll through TikTok to see the real stars of the workplace

Three Factors for Happiness at Work

In Praise Of Service Techs

Remedies for the Distracted Mind

The two sides of envy at work

Emotional intelligence is more important for being a successful entrepreneur than mental ability, meta-analysis finds

Third-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI

How mindsets can make all the difference

Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks

Threats to professional identities can lead to resistance to organisational change

How Technology Can Be Part of a Happy Life

A Surprising Benefit of Feeling Ownership over Your Possessions

8 keys to happiness, according to experts

How to calm your inner storm

We Have Many More Than Five Senses — Here’s How To Make The Most Of Them

Frequent Workplace Interruptions Are Annoying — But May Also Help You Feel That You Belong

Happiness: what professional success looks like

Dr. Tara Swart of MIT Sloan School of Management: How We Can Leverage The Power Of Gratitude

Making Self-Care Tactical — Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths

Why boredom might not be a bad thing after all

The Downsides of Being Very Emotionally Intelligent

This Is Your Brain on Silence - Issue 16: Nothingness

“Your Ideas Are Not Your Identity”: Adam Grant on How to Get Better at Changing Your Mind

How to Channel Your Mind’s Inner Chatter

How to be angry

How to channel boredom

Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

How to Take more Control of your Life

Have We Reached the Limit of Individualism?

The State of Being Stuck

Apps that help build habits

How to Make Room in Your Work Life for the Rest of Your Self

Have We Reached the Limit of Individualism?

Time Poor and Unhappy

Get the Most Out of Your Books — Be an Active Reader

How to build long-term resilience

Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection

What old story about yourself are you still believing? Here’s how to find it and change it

You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief?

Free Up Your Mind, to Free Up Your Strategy

Learning to Learn

Professionals and Amateurs

On Falling Apart at the Office

The 3 Stages of Expertise

How Happy Are People at Work?

The Emotional Sophistication Tomorrow’s Leaders Will Need

8 tips to help you become more resilient

The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

The Simple Changes That Reduced My Phone-Induced Anxiety

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. - Plutarch

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