Leadership & Emotional Intelligence

Gina Messina, Ph.D. 10/16/2023

Emotional Intelligence is critical for effective leadership and is one of the most sought after skills by employers. Defining ourselves as leaders requires us to consider our purpose, mission, vision, and values. This set of principles offers us a guide for making decisions, engaging others, and pursuing meaningful objectives. Click below to download your digital resource on Leadership and Emotional Intelligence. Download Now

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Gina Messina, Ph.D.

Million Dollar Grit Podcast with Julie Chenell

How I Launched a Podcast in 8 Hours

This is no exaggeration. I launched a podcast in 8 hours. And I’m going to tell you exactly what I did.

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Institute Editorial Team 09/18/2023

Refocus on Your Ambitions, Create a Vision Board

Vision is crucial to our success. Driving your car during heavy snow or rainstorm isn’t comfortable, especially when you have old windshield wipers screeching back and forth. Or, if you experience the double whammy: the bad wipers and the “Oh no! I’m almost out of windshield wiper fluid” moment. You can’t see as clearly as you need to and panic sets in. For our own safety and sanity, you may decide to pull over to the side of the road until the storm passes. The experience of being caught in a heavy storm while driving can be a metaphor for life — it can feel scary, may take special maneuvering, and sometimes causes you to stop and re-evaluate the situation. You may even find yourself…

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Jessica Headley, Ph.D., LPCC-S 06/07/2021

Kakeibo: The Art of Financial Mindfulness

By Gina Messina, Ph.D. About a year ago, a friend introduced me to Kakeibo, the Japanese art of budgeting and applying mindfulness to our spending, and I’ve been obsessed ever since. You see, I am a major contributor to our consumeristic culture. I see something shiny and I think I have to have it. A friend jokes that she hates going shopping with me because I have to pick up and touch everything on the shelves (although I’ve eliminated that practice due to COVID!). Like so many of us, I am easily persuaded by marketing tactics. Now that we so rarely spend cash, it feels like I can simply swipe a card, click a button, or use my fingerprint and suddenly I have a new…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 01/24/2021

How to Make a Vision Board

What Is a Vision Board? A vision board is usually a collage of images that represent goals and dreams. It can include cut-out pictures from magazines and words that help inspire you to manifest your dreams and get where you want to go. Although vision boarding is a commonly used tool, there is not a lot of research on its effectiveness. Initial research suggests it can help us more easily reach our goals. This may be due to how vision boards help us gain self-awareness and self-reflect on what is important to us. Vision boards may also help us imagine what a positive future could look like for us. Imagining a positive future is a helpful way to increase positive emotions and optimism. And positive…

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Institute Editorial Team 02/17/2023

What Are Transferable Skills?

Learn why transferable skills are important and how to talk about your own. The average person can expect to hold 12 different jobs in his or her lifetime (United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021). With all this job-changing, how can you navigate your career in the direction that you want to take it? One way to improve your career prospects may be to cultivate your transferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that are useful, and maybe even necessary, to the performance of a wide variety of jobs. A skill may be considered transferable if you learn and perfect it in one context, like school, a job, volunteer work, or a hobby, and then can use that skill in new and different situations (Nagele…

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Institute Editorial Team 01/28/2023

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