According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence (EI) will be one of the top 10 job skills in 2020. In a survey of over 2,600 hiring managers and human resource professionals, 71% said they valued EI over IQ; 75% said they were more likely to promote a highly emotionally intelligent worker; and 59% claimed they’d pass up a candidate with a high IQ but low emotional intelligence. Find out why.

Check out the 4 S’s of happy workplaces.

Still multi-tasking? Share this article with your team (and your boss)! Focusing on one thing at a time helps reduce productivity drops and preserve health. Stop, drop and focus!

Emotional Intelligence (EI) continues to climb up the ladder in importance. And emotional intelligence starts with your behaviors. Hear from Daniel Goleman in this LinkedIn post.

How much “busy work” and “productive work” we do each day is a frame of mind. Check out this video to see how you can be more productive and less busy.

Another article proving that meditation can literally change your brain. The study found differences in brain volume after eight weeks in five different regions in the brains of the meditating and control groups. Om and click to read more.

“Study after study has found the open-concept office to be counterproductive. We like to think being closer to our colleagues fosters collaboration, but mostly the nonstop chatter has people wishing they could get some peace and quiet.” Consider these 8 ways to find some calm and focus. Read on.

A study with 35 unemployed men and women found great differences in the blood work and brain scans between one group, which practiced meditation and listening to their bodies, and the other group, which focused on relaxation and distracting themselves from worries and stress. Read on.

In a surprising bit of research, the study showed that not taking an annual holiday increased the chances of death by 20% in men, and increased chances of heart disease by 30%! As for women, the study proved that women who vacationed once in six years were at significantly higher risk of a heart attack when compared with women who vacationed at least twice a year. Read more.

Employees want better work-life balance and greater flexibility, and employers are responding with new paid time off (PTO) policies. Although many companies have adopted unlimited vacation policies, some employees aren’t likely to use those days when the office gets busy. And when your best performers don’t take time off, they put a serious strain on themselves and the team as a whole. Read how to change that.