Why Your Company Should Partner With The Emotional Intelligence Revolution in America A Easy Way Forward for Change: BigEQCampaign.org/Business
“90% of business success today comes from EQ rather than IQ” – Harvard Business Review EQ demonstrably boosts your business! Emotionally intelligent employees are collaborative, productive, innovative, and loyal. TREY 2 research
Today, only 10% of schools teach EQ. Schools that do teach EQ show remarkable results for students, inside and outside the classroom. TREY 3 research
What If 100% of Your New Hires Came Equipped With EQ on Day One? According to HBR, your business success would jump. So would theirs. TREY 4 research
Fortunately, EQ Is Not Just About Business. Increased emotional intelligence won't just stay inside the walls of class rooms and office buildings. TREY 5 research
You Can Help Close the EQ Gap Starbucks can actually help advance EQ learning in schools with your social media, advertising and marketing TREY 6 research
Many Students today are Stressed and Depressed. They’ll become tomorrow’s unhappy workers Emotional intelligence = Happiness. It consists of 5 basic skills that anyone can learn. The change you want to see is already possible. 10% of pre K-12 schools flourish by teaching these skills, creating remarkable kids. Your organization can help make it 100%. TREY 7 research
In the Absence of EQ Training, These are Familiar Reactive Behaviors Fight / Argue / Blame Flight / Avoid / Addict Seek Approval Bully / Control Manipulate / Lie / Cheat Fix / Enable TREY 8 research
These Are the Horrible Outcomes of Low EQ – at Epidemic Levels • 10 million children annual victims of domestic violence • Between 20-30% of students report bullying each year. Violence • 12 million domestic partners in U.S. annually experience violence. • U.S.: highest murder and violent assault rates of all advanced countries. Sexual • 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys in U.S. sexually abused before aged 18. Abuse • 325,000 women raped a year. 1/5 of American women are raped in their lifetimes. • Nearly 20%t of U.S. adults - 43.8 million - experience mental illness per year. Mental • Last year, 3 million adolescents (12 to 17) had at least one major depressive episode Health • Suicide is now second leading cause of death for ages 15-24 – highest ever recorded . 3 • 58.2% of HS seniors reported they drink and 34.9% used marijuana. Drug • 1 in 10 Americans over age 12 are addicted to alcohol and drugs. Usage • $740 billion in annual costs related to crime, lost productivity, and health care. Workplace • 48% of American adults report experiencing abusive behavior at work . Abuse TREY Sources: Departments of Health, Education, Justice, CDC and FBI research
Emotional Intelligence Is the ability to deal with yourself and others in a healthy way! It’s a learnable set of skills. TREY 10 research
Self e·mo·tion·al Awareness in·tel·li·gence [emotional intelligence] Social Self Awareness Management TEACHABLE EMOTIONAL SKILLS The capacity to be aware of, manage, and express one's feelings in a constructive way. Superb relationship, communications, teamwork and conflict-resolution abilities. Empathetic response, not reaction. Relationship Decision The ability to make good decisions and set Skills Making and reach goals in a productive way. TREY (1) Emotional Intelligence. Oxford English Dictionaries, Retrieved from https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/emotional_intelligence 11 research (2) SEL Wheel. CASEL 2017, Retrieved from https://casel.org/core-competencies/
View Student Testimonials and the Classroom Reality See a Schoolwide Approach to Children Talk About Social- Emotional Learning’s Impact Social-Emotional Learning TREY 12 research
EQ Training Benefits for Schools and Children Up to 90% positive changes that prepare children for successful, productive and caring lives and for creating an emotionally healthier world than the one we have now. • Grades soar • Attendance climbs • Happy students love school • Mentally and emotional healthy students go on to lead • Violence, self-harming and high-achievement lives bullying dissipate • Depression & anxiety heal • Drug and alcohol use plummet • Screen addiction abates • Race and class biases decline • Dropout rates decrease TREY 13 research
Five Benefits of EQ to Your Business Candidate Employee Employee Employee Employee Quality Retention Engagement Productivity Innovation Give full effort to High EQ Strong goal Strong mutual High EQ people their work. Exhibit commitment and support on teams employees are able to focus active listening skills for no stress maintain a positive on tasks, think means colleagues and effective attitude, establish self-management clearly and non- have confidence communication good relationships and relationships to advance new reactively, make skills. Are with clients and ideas, accept with colleagues, good decisions, problem-solvers, co-workers, constructive input, work through resolve conflicts show leadership, reinforces difficulties, and and put out fires avoid office are adept at create an engagement and effectively. The politics, and critical thinking enjoyable leads to lower co-create results: higher and creativity, healthcare costs, breakthroughs in workplace climate, productivity and understand cross- fewer missed work every division of leading to less sales. More new cultural days and lower hiring and training products. the company. differences. of new staff. customer churn. it. TREY 14 research
Real Benefits To Your and All Communities • • Lower crime, violence, addiction, conflict Dramatically lower remedial societal expenses • • Better mental, emotional and physical health More community cohesion and service • • Lower rates of poverty Potentially lower taxes TREY * See research at BigEQ.org 15 research
Who We Are Our Strategy The Big EQ is an independent nonprofit EQuip Our Kids! is the first mass advertising organization founded by a group of business and marketing campaign seeking to educate and education leaders in alliance with fiscal and mobilize parents, businesses and the sponsor Earthways Foundation. Our sole public to support comprehensive emotional mission is to promote the acquisition of and relationship (RQ) and social intelligence emotional and social intelligence skills and skills training in all pre K-12 schools and early learning centers – public, private and charter. attitudes (EQ) across all ages and starting with elevating the EQ and healthy relating skills of Also, in as many parenting homes as possible. every child from birth on. TREY 16 research
Why We Need the EQuip Our Kids! Campaign • Because 90% of parents, businesses, legislators and the general public don’t know that transformative EQ learning even exists. So there is little to no public call for this training to become universal. • Because without public support, only 10% of schools comprehensively implement EQ curriculum. • Our goal is 100% of U.S schools teaching EQ comprehensively by 2030. That requires mobilizing the public. Why Your Company Benefits from Partnering with the Campaign • Cause-branding with the most positive vision of human possibilities will pay off in customer and employee loyalty. • You’ll help create a great workforce you can draw from . • You’ll elevate your community and reduce the pain and hard costs of toxic societal ills to you (and everyone else). TREY 17 research
3 Ways You Can Support EQuip Our Kids! TREY 18 research
Promote Our Promote Our Campa Campaign Inspire EQ action with your media time and space Create EQ Messages for Your Marketing, Advertising & Social Media – or Share Ours • Beat the drums for EQ Learning! Awaken the public to its benefits . • Inspire your employees - especially parents – to add this to their “give back” and collective action causes and to advance it in local schools. • Showcase at your event booths to help recruit allies to the cause. Example: “To give all children a chance to be their best self, we support Emotional Intelligence Learning in all schools! Please visit EQuipOurKids.org.” (Or visit designated support pages on your own website.) TREY 19 research
Endorse Our Endorse Our Camp Campaign Put your brand on our campaign to show your support A No-Cost Way to Benefit from EQ • Raise your hand and take a stand! • Allow us to include your company name and logo on our list of endorsers • Or allow us to list your personal name and C-suite title as one of our endorsers “Congratulations on the “These are life skills any “I am happy to Campaign. I stand ready parent would want for a endorse the EQuip to support your work. child [and] I think Our Kids! You are engaged in a everyone should care campaign because truly important endeavor about this, not just this is something we’ve needed for and can touch many parents. I want this for lives” my community….It’s a long time.” great you are doing this.” Henry Cisneros Daniel Goleman Eric Garcetti former Secretary of Department of Housing and Best-selling and ground-breaking author of Los Angeles Mayor “Emotional Intelligence” Urban Development TREY 20 research
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