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There are moments when your performance doesn’t fail because of a lack of ability.It fails in specific moments:When you are under pressureWhen stress goes upWhen an emotion takes control…And you start making decisions from that stateThen you do things you shouldn’t:You avoid important conversationsYou postpone key decisionsYou react instead of respondingYou lose clarity, focus, and judgmentAnd the most expensive part:You lose opportunities you were ready to take, but you didn’t know how to handle the moment.Emotional Intelligence for High Performance is designed to change that.It’s not about “feeling better”, it’s about making sure your performance doesn’t collapse when it matters most.You will learn a SYSTEM:To understand what is happening inside you in real timeTo detect the patterns that make you react automaticallyTo stay in control under pressure without freezing, avoiding, or explodingTo pause when everything in you wants to reactTo make clearer decisions, even with intense emotionsTo sustain new behaviors until they become habitsYou will also leave with practical daily protocols designed to reset your state, recover focus, and stay emotionally strong under pressure.This is not about controlling yourself, it’s about training a process that you can sustain over time.Emotions → Awareness → Pause → Decisions → Actions → HabitsIf today this happens to you—that you know what you need to

Microexpressions for Beginners: Read Facial ExpressionsHave you ever had the feeling that someone's facial expression didn't quite match what they were saying?Have you wondered whether you missed an important emotional cue during a conversation, job interview, business meeting, or family discussion?Most communication happens without words. Long before people explain how they feel, their facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice often provide valuable clues about their emotional state.Learning to recognize those clues won't allow you to read minds or know exactly what someone is thinking. What it can do is help you become a more observant communicator, ask better questions, and better understand the people around you.That's exactly what this beginner-friendly course was designed to teach.Learn the Foundations of Facial Expression RecognitionIn this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of microexpressions and facial expression awareness through practical demonstrations and guided observation exercises.Rather than simply memorizing definitions, you'll actively practice recognizing the seven commonly recognized facial expressions while learning how to observe subtle facial movements in everyday conversations.Throughout the course, you'll develop observation skills you can immediately begin practicing with friends, family members, coworkers, interviews, television programs, and everyday interactions.You'll Learn How To:• Understand the difference between macro expressions and microexpressions• Recognize the seven commonly recognized facial expressions• Identify important facial cues involving the eyes, eyebrows, forehead, mouth, cheeks, and jaw• Understand how facial expressions fit into overall nonverbal communication• Practice observing facial expressions in real-world situations• Recognize when facial expressions and spoken words may appear inconsistent• Use thoughtful follow-up ques

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.What’s emotional intelligence about? Emotional intelligence is about using your emotions to inform your thinking and using your thinking to understand and manage your emotions.For many of us, with so many competing demands, concerns and commitments in our lives, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed, to become unsure and confused, to misunderstand or be misunderstood by others.With emotional intelligence, by understanding your emotions and how to manage them, you are better able to express how you feel, what you want and don’t want, while at the same time acknowledging and understanding how others are feeling and behaving.It’s a dynamic process; the extent to which you can understand and manage your own emotions influences your ability to understand and manage other people’s emotions. And the more you understand other people’s emotions, their intentions, motivations and behavior, the more appropriately you can respond and the more effectively you can interact with them.Emotional intelligence can help you to live and work with others more easily; forge stronger relationships, both in your personal life and at work. You are more able to sense and manage the emotional needs of others. You are more able to think before responding and know to give yourself and others time to calm down if emotions become overwhelming.Developing your emotional intelligence can help you to lead a happier life because thinking and behaving rationally and calmly in difficult situations puts you in a better position to handle feelings and situations that you may have found difficult and challenging in the past.But emotional intelligence is not only about understanding and managing difficult situations and emotions. It’s also about knowing how to engage the ‘feel good’ emotions that can give you and other people positivity, confidence, support, motivation and inspiration.

Remember: This course includes a manual - work through it at your own pace.This course is exactly as it says in the title:1. Be kind (how? when? to whom?)2. Be happy (why? how does kindness do this?)3. Reduce stress (through being kind?)Each lecture follows the same format:a. Discussion about the title eg H.E.L.P.S.O. or S.H.E.B.A.Db. A focus on what to do as an example of being kindc. A focused 2-3 minute meditationRemember throughout that this is a course to be used, with exercises to do and to share (hence the Child Psychology element) to reflect, to analyse and discuss. In a world at war where loneliness and depression are commonplace, the course, the Q/A offers a place where emotions can be shared and - as per a 'global classroom' - self-exploration and understanding are developed. Throughout the approach is one of gentle encouragement - participate and share as much as you wish.A fourth section has been added:Using Art Therapy to explore and share kind actions. remember: being kind to others is also being kind to yourself.This is very much a 'doing' course - with a high level of Instructor involvement - and Child Psychology!Straightforward. Practical. New topics added April 2025:Random Act of Kindness reducing depressionThe Ripple EffectChild PsychologyReciprocationActs of Kindness in a Community GroupDepression in USATeaching Kindness at SchoolKindness is not People PleasingAttachmentDevelopmental MilestonesTemperamentResilienceSocializationCognitive DevelopmentBehavioural ConditioningEmotional Regulation

Disclaimer: This practice test course was developed independently and is not associated with, affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, officially recognized by, or authorized by the Society for Maintenance Reliability Professionals (SMRP) or the SMRP Certifying Organization (SMRPCO). Certified Maintenance Reliability Technician and CMRT are certification names used by SMRP/SMRPCO. All references to the credential, exam, standards, exam blueprint, knowledge domains, and certification requirements are used solely for descriptive, educational, and study-preparation purposes. All practice questions, explanations, scoring, answer rationales, practice tips, and domain mapping were independently created and do not reproduce official exam questions, official practice tests, or official SMRP/SMRPCO materials. SMRPCO is the sole authority for granting the credential and retains all rights in its certification program, exam rules, eligibility requirements, standards, and certification responsibilities.This course provides realistic, exam-style practice for candidates preparing for a professional maintenance and reliability technician certification exam. From the start, you’ll receive six full test sets, each containing 175 multiple-choice questions and timed to 180 minutes to simulate professional exam-style conditions. The course is designed to help learners work toward a target passing threshold and build confidence through repeated practice.Questions are mapped to four key maintenance and reliability technician domains:Domain I: Maintenance PracticesDomain II: Preventive and Predictive MaintenanceDomain III: Troubleshooting and AnalysisDomain IV: Corrective MaintenanceThis structure helps you t

Course Introduction: Often in life... we drift off from our goals, we let life take the course for us...we lose control of the steering wheel. This loss of control makes us sad and subject to feelings of dejection, self rebuke, inadequacy, and hopelessness. Basically what is typically called "low levels of Motivation". We become like machines that have controls elsewhere-in someone else or in something else. You start to stagnate and just like water develops a stench when it stagnates, we too lose our charisma and passion. Are you looking at some eternal factors or events in your life to drive your motivation levels? Don't do that...because that is a wrong association. No one or nothing can drive your motivation levels, because the power to stay motivated lies within you. If you continue to look at external sources you will experience sadness and end up feeling inadequate. Most people have reasonably high motivation levels but have the tough task of dealing with partners, colleagues, friends, teammates, or team members with extremely low motivation levels. People who lack zeal, enthusiasm and are very pessimistic and low on energy. Audience: This course is recommended for everyone, especially for people who need to enhance their motivation levels, to make motivation a habit, a way of life, and want to derive unlimited benefit in life. Mostly also for people who lead teams, who need to motivate people in their environment and help people change their lives for the better. Course Description: This course is designed to help you check your inner motivation levels, it equips you with the psyche of motivation, the theories of motivation teaches you to understand the drivers of motivation and empowers you to not only motivate yourself, but also motivate people, teams, and everyone who comes in contact with you or in your environment. You must have met a lot of people in your life who despite life's challenges display and p