EITRI News – March 2025

TAMU-CC Appreciation

By all accounts, the 2025 – 22nd Annual Institute for Emotional Intelligence that convened last month on the beautiful campus of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi was a wonderful success. We would like to acknowledge and appreciate the faculty and staff that were key in bringing the 22nd Annual Institute for Emotional Intelligence to campus and making it such an enjoyable and productive event. In particular, the Psychology Department and Dr. Lauren Denver-Potter and Kimberly Carrejo were integral in coordinating with catering, event planning, and the University Police Department.

Dr. Denver-Potter was personally involved in many ways during the conference proper and even provided a delicious homemade chocolate cake desert on Saturday. In addition,

Dr. Joshua Watson with the College of Education and Human Development provided key guidance, oversight, and access so that EI Certification Workshop and Conference participants could receive National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) Continuing Education credit for their investment of time and money to participate meaningfully in this year’s TEI events. Thank you, TAMU-CC, for your support!

TEI Foundation

Award Recipients – Congratulations!

Since the 1970s, over 80 doctoral studies have been completed using the skills-based models of emotional intelligence (EI) created by Drs. Darwin Nelson and Gary Low. There is much remaining to learn, and the Transformative Emotional Intelligence (TEI) Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, provides grants and scholarships for research to extend learning and knowledge about the practical applications of EI to facilitate the development of healthy individuals, schools, communities, and organizations.

Sometimes scholars require outside financial support to pursue their social science research. The TEI Foundation provides competitive grants to support qualifying research activities in the name of Darwin B. Nelson for Outstanding Research in Transformative Emotional Intelligence. Scholarships may also be awarded to support academic tuition, support for publication, and meaningful participation to present research findings in both national and international conferences in the name of Gary R. Low for Excellence in Education and Training with Transformative Emotional Intelligence.

Congratulations to the following EI Conference/Certification Workshop participants who received Gary R. Low scholarships to attend the 2025 – 22nd Annual Institute for Emotional Intelligence.

Hope Carroll

Kaitlyn Woods

Mariana Aviles

Joshua Berry

Kallieste McKinzey

Solenne Campbell

Nevena Cail

James Munson

Taylor Biggers

Mirna Pena

Cassandra Buffington-Bates

Ida Wilber

Fernando Gutierrez

Karen Ilanit Teverovsky

Pablo Reyez

Homer Mireles

Salvador Aguilar

Samantha Adame

Sanket Ramchandra Patole

Dr. Dave Rude

Dr. Tanya Robinson

Dr. Tessie George

Dr. Kaye Nelson

Dr. Julie Chancler

Publications

VIGOACRE: The Strategy of Results Driven Communication

By Chet Hall and Dr. Tanya Seagraves-Robinson

The revised and updated 4th edition of VIGOACRE provides an interesting perspective on how to successfully communicate within your organizations. The authors provide compelling and thought-provoking strategies on how to navigate from vision to seeing results. "Vision" is the foundation, "Results" encompasses Goals and strategic Actions for the organization. Hall and Seagraves-Robinson call this unique strategy VIGOACRE (Vision-Goals-Actions-Results), an efficient and effective approach for results driven communication.

Book Chapter – Emotional Intelligence in Business: Enhancing Leadership, Collaboration, and Performance

By Tiago Manuel Horta Reis da Silva, Rick Hammett, and

Gary Low

The chapter explores the critical role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in modern business environments, emphasizing its impact on leadership, collaboration, and overall organizational performance. By integrating theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence, the chapter elucidates how EI contributes to effective leadership, fosters team collaboration, and enhances performance metrics. The discussion extends to practical applications, providing strategies for developing EI within corporate settings and its implications for business outcomes. The chapter concludes with insights into future research directions and the evolving significance of TEI in increasingly complex business landscapes.

da Silva, T. M. H. R., Hammett, R., & Low, G. (2025). Chapter 6: Emotional intelligence in business: Enhancing leadership, collaboration, and performance. In Building business knowledge for complex modern business environments (p. 30). IGI Global. Https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-6447-5.ch006

A Transformative Model for Teaching and LearningEmotional Intelligence for Aspiring Entrepreneurial Leaders

In this article, the authors suggest that although several programs integrate key emotional intelligence (EI) concepts, there are few examples of how to develop an integrated learning framework for teaching and learning EI skills for daily use. The authors introduce a practical transformative model of emotional intelligence (TEI) that emphasizes the personally meaningful development of personal, emotional, relationship, and life (PERL) skills that are so important for school, work, and life success. A 1-day seminar experience embedded in a European-based international summer school course in the School of Management, Fribourg, Switzerland, generated new evidence for how a skills-based curriculum in EI can be used to empower future entrepreneurs and leaders.

Mateias, D. E., Low, G. R., & Hammett, R. D. (2024). A transformative model for teaching and learning emotional intelligence for aspiring entrepreneurial leaders. Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/26437015.2024.2404179

Online Skills for Career And Life Effectiveness® (SCALE®)

As of August 2024, online SCALE® now allows Project Managers to upload additional .CSV file formats when assigning instruments to individuals within projects. In addition to UTF-7 formatted .CSVs, PMs may now assign SCALE® instruments to end users with .CSV files formatted as Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS, and Unspecified. These new file format types are provided below (screenshots from an Apple MacBook):

As a reminder, from the previous updates this summer, now PMs will automatically recoup any unused instruments on the day following a project's expiration. Here is what PMs and ABPs need to know about this upgrade.

When a project expires, the PM will be notified by email from no_reply@doscale.com concerning any recoupments.
If the client does not begin their SCALE® by submitting at least one item response, that instrument will be recouped into the PM's bank and will no longer be available in the client's portal.
If the client submits at least one item response but does not finish their SCALE®, that instrument will remain in the client's portal under UNFINISHED SCALEs.
If the client has an unfinished SCALE® and a new SCALE® is assigned, when the client logs back in they will see both instruments under UNFINISHED SCALEs. For this reason, a paragraph has been added to the Returning User instructions to contact the PM to determine whether they should complete the unfinished or newly assigned instrument. If you instruct them to complete the unfinished instrument, the new one will be recouped when the project expires.
Any assessment(s) listed under UNFINISHED SCALEs in the client portal are identified by the date(s) they were assigned.
Assessments listed under FINISHED SCALEs in the client portal are identified by the date they were completed.

If you have any questions or would like to meet with Rick Hammett to go though the PM portal and functionality, please let us know at Support@EiLearningSys.com.

Online Personal Excellence Map® (PEM®)

The Personal Excellence Map® is our latest positive assessment of Personal, Emotional, Relationship, and Life (PERL) skills.

The Personal Excellence Learning System includes 31 pages of guided interpretation of scores on 15 emotional intelligence skills across five PEM dimensions.

For a demonstration of the

instrument, pricing, or

questions, please email

Support@EiLearningSys.com.

The 2025 Personal Excellence Award Recipients

Beginning with the 4Th Annual EI Conference in 2007, Personal Excellence Award recipients have been selected and announced during each annual EI conference. The Personal Excellence Award is based on exemplary personal, professional, career, and leadership applications for helping individuals and organizations make a difference in the quality of life and career performance of others. The first award was presented to Margo Murray, MMHA - The Managers' Mentors, for her seminal work in mentoring and facilitating quality performance with her global alliance partners. Since then, many organizational, community, and academic leaders have been recognized through the Emotional Intelligence Training and Research Institute's Personal Excellence Award. This year's recipients included Dr. Gerald Sewell and Dr. Rose Baker.

Congratulations to Dr. Gerald Sewell

Since attending his first EI Certification Workshop and Conference Workshop in 2010, Gerald's many EI contributions and accomplishments have included publishing an EI book, Emotional Intelligence for Military Leaders, completing his doctoral degree, and creating a very popular EI course for leadership students in the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (Department of Command & Leadership). Thank you, Gerald, for your contributions.

Emotional Intelligence For Military Leaders

By Gerald F. Sewell

This book provides an overview of why Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a critical skill for military leaders by offering some basic information on where and how EI can make a difference in military organizations. This book raises the awareness of military leaders to this valuable and available pathway to effective leadership. The intent is to show how Emotional Intelligence can make a positive impact in several key areas of military...

Congratulations to Dr. Rose Baker

Dr. Rose Baker is an accomplished researcher and research supervisor who has been involved with and supported the annual institutes for emotional intelligence for many years. Her involvement in conference planning through her participation in the EI Leadership Advisory Working Group (EI LAWG) has helped improve the annual EI conference and programs year after year. Dr. Baker has been a steadfast participant and contributor in the EI LAWG despite her remarkable University of North Texas workload, her own research agenda, and her direct oversight of original doctoral dissertation research conducted by her students. Thank you, Rose, for your meaningful involvement and ongoing support.

The Emotional Intelligence

Leadership Advisory Working Group (EI LAWG)

Please join our Emotional Intelligence Leadership Advisory Working Group (EI LAWG) and help us plan the 2026 – 23rd Annual institute for Emotional Intelligence. From our October meeting, pictured from upper left are Margo Murray, Rick Hammett, Gary Low, Kaye Nelson, James Polk, Vincent Amatuzzi, Fritz Lebowsky, Rose Baker, Tanya Seagraves-Robinson, and Ali Esmaeili.

Upcoming EI LAWG Meetings

Saturday, April 19, 2025 @ 9:00 AM (U.S. Central)

Saturday, May 24, 2025 @ 9:00 AM (U.S. Central)

Please email Support@EiLearningSys.com to join this group!