How do smart people achieve greatness with humanity and civility? Being smart relies mostly on IQ, technical or cognitive intelligence. Being SMARTER relies mostly on social and emotional intelligence skills. In Smart2Smarter, gain the seven SMARTER skills every employer wants and every employee needs. Learn to identify, manage and focus emotional energy to build social connections and achieve results. Cynthia Kivland shares her research and wisdom in a practical format that provides the knowledge, tools and actions needed to thrive-not just survive- throughout your career. Bonus Materials Gain access to the Smart2Smarter Community with online tools, appraisals and assessments to evaluate and improve your emotional and social intelligence skills. Plus, an extensive list of references and resources on the seven smarter emotions Self: Do your emotions strengthen or derail your personal best? Mastery: Can you master emotions, thoughts and actions to move forward? Attraction: Are you attracting an environment that ignites your own and others' personal best? Resilience: Are you able to adapt, reinvent and renew during a change or setback? Tolerance: Do you accept, acknowledge and appreciate your own and others' humanity? Evolve: Do you seek opportunities to innovate, initiate and improve your work, community and self? Reciprocity: Are you able to teach and be taught, lead and be led, receive and give?

Two assessments and development guides that provide insight and action plans to understand your workplace engagement values and the degree of passion and performance currently in your present job to "be your potential."

maintaining your career health is similar to maintaining your physical health. much like the regular preparation and conditioning athletes use to achieve in their sport, career health includes regular conditioning, practice and learning to evolve and achieve performance, career and lifestyle goals. a healthy career lifestyle establishes behavior habits and a mindset of continuous evolution that requires the intelligent use of your emotional, physical and social self. this tool provides a career health check-up, along with development activities to further condition your strengths and develop latent career health muscles.

The material in this handbook will help you to understand tolerant communication -from both sides of the desk. Tolerant communication is a process in which each person intentionally interacts on a social and emotional level with their head and their heart What does it look like to communicate in a tolerant manner? By reading and practicing the activities in this handbook, you will gain tools and skills to communicate in a more tolerant and smarter fashion, whether to individuals and groups or via spoken communications, written communications, and even electronic communications.