EQ vs IQ: What Graduating Students Actually Need to Succeed

Your grades got you the interview. What happens next runs on EQ. Here is what graduating students actually need to build, starting today. I put a video out three and a half years ago about IQ versus EQ. This one is for the students walking out of school right now. IQ is the ability to learn, and school spent years grading yours. EQ is what you do with that learning: motivation, self awareness, social awareness, regulation. That is what decides your first job, your first boss, and your first hard conversation. In this video I walk through the three things every graduating student has to build: 1. Curiosity. Stay curious and ask fact based questions. Who was there? When did this start? Why opens interpretation. Facts open understanding. 2. Confirmation. Confirm what people tell you, what you read, and what your feed serves you. May I look at that? Who taught you this? 3. Communication. Learn to communicate with people who do not think like you. School surrounded you with people who chose what you chose. Work will not. Creativity is not a fourth skill. It is the dividend that shows up when curiosity and confirmation are healthy. These three come out of the HELP Operating System (Hear, Evidence, Learn, Proceed), the method my wife Elisha, a behavioral scientist and psychotherapist, and I built. I teach it to boards, executive teams, and sales teams. I spent 25 years leading revenue teams, including helping scale NetSuite from about $30M to over $1B, and I have hired and let go of hundreds of people along the way. The grades got them interviews. These skills kept the jobs. The moves in this video are usable today. Building them into habits takes practice with someone beside you. That is why I run group sessions for graduating students. Book a free 15 minute call and we will see if it fits. Free 15 minute call (Fridays): https://www.ondemandleaders.com The HELP method: https://www.ondemandleaders.com/help The HELP quick reference guide: https://www.ondemandleaders.com/help-... Chapters: 0:00 A video I made three years ago 0:32 IQ is the ability to learn. EQ is the application 1:04 Learning with somebody beside you 2:07 Motivation is EQ, not IQ 2:47 The three things students must learn 3:03 Fact based questions, not why 3:37 The art of a conversation 4:12 The evidence phase: confirm it 4:54 Communication with all types of people 5:19 Knowledge vs the application of knowledge 6:15 Creativity is the dividend 6:33 Group sessions for graduating students Chris Schafer, aka Chili #EmotionalIntelligence #CareerAdvice #Students