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Authors: Jared Cohen and Haziel Bustillo, High Performance Coaches Stress at work, like in life, is common and should be expected. However, stress is not inherently a bad thing. Rather, it is one of the primary mechanisms by which your physiology and psychology adapt in order to increase capacity to deal with future demands....

Author | Katie Levy, Salesforce Consultant Many of us are accustomed to traveling to an office setting for work every day. Whether that office is a skyscraper, suburban campus, or somewhere else entirely, we get up, move through our morning routines, leave home, and head to brick and mortar buildings for work. At HigherEchelon,...

Author |  Jeremy Atkins and Shrujal Joshi, Performance Coaches Consider three scenarios: A basketball player who thinks the official made an incorrect call; a business professional whose computer crashed in the middle of a key meeting; a TSA officer dealing with an irate passenger. What do these three individuals have in common? They’re all...

Author: Sarah Charles, High Performance Coach A lot has been written about the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (measured as Emotional Quotient) and leadership capacity. However, for most, the question remains if EQ is a critical skill or just another politicized agenda cloaked in ‘education.’ Based on our experience at HigherEchelon Inc, we believe EQ...

Author  |  Rick Roper, SVP Human Capital Services   Both Apple and Amazon started in a garage. Facebook started on a college campus, and the youngest CEO in the world is 17 years old. While it is easy to attribute their success to products and technology, the reality is that all of this existed...