5. Add pillows and fluffiness. There are many types of decorative pillows you can add to your living room, family room, and to your beds. These are good accessories that add a cozy feel to your rooms and they also are just plain fun to use- under your head, over your legs, hugged between your arms, they actually do help to keep you warm besides those throws you've gotten out.

6. Even if you don't move to Florida, you can still transport yourself to a tropical climate and start anticipating spring by adding a flowering plant or some cut flowers to your kitchen or dining room table. Include some palm tree low wattage lamps by your reading nook or on your nightstand. Get a CD of some Jimmy Buffet island music and enjoy relaxing to those tropical tunes.

So let right textures, sights, scents and sounds hug you. And let your imagination take you to warmer places and no cares.

Copyright 2004 Liz Hekimian-Williams

The employee may think something is completely new, but with an EQ program, he or she can learn to identify skills and steps that are familiar, and also emotions that are familiar to all transitions and learning experiences. This eliminates a lot of stress.

What holds most people back from quick learning is fear. They fear making a mistake. They think it will be too hard. They remember past failures. They fear being overwhelmed. They fear success. They may have been publicly humiliated in past.

Chances are you have a good training program for skills and techniques, and you have chosen intelligent and competent people to begin with. Learning to work with your employees on their Emotional Intelligence will give you an edge on intangibles that have been holding you back that you may not have been able to identify and break down into learnable steps.

Change is stressful. Rapid change is even more stressful. Resilience, which was called ultimate stress-buster in a recent Wall Street Journal article, is an Emotional Intelligence competency. It means bouncing back after failures, rejections, losses and defeats.

When you learn what makes people Resilient, you can pass this on to your sales staff, project teams and customer service reps who cope daily with rejection and frustration.

You’ve taken care of skills, education and training, but what about Emotional Intelligence? Take a second look. More and more managers are finding this to be missing piece in their training.

©Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ Coach, http://www.susandunn.cc . Coaching, distance learning and ebooks around emotional intelligence for personal and professional development. Susan is the Director of EQ Alive!, training and certifying managers, coaches, teachers and therapists in Emotional Intelligence. It’s what’s been missing in your employee programs. Individualized AND group programs available, LD or on-site. Mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for more information.