
Emotional Intelligence: An Overrated Predictor?
Few concepts have enjoyed such success in training. Meta-analyses show a real but modest link with performance once intelligence and personality are taken into account.
1774 articles drawn from our engagements in Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Bern, Basel, Lugano, Fribourg and Neuchâtel. Case studies, practical guides, 2026 trends.

Few concepts have enjoyed such success in training. Meta-analyses show a real but modest link with performance once intelligence and personality are taken into account.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

A meta-analysis suggests a moderate training effect, with major methodological caveats.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Dana Joseph et Daniel Newman (2010, Journal of Applied Psychology)

Single context; replicate locally before generalising.

Raw observations from field engagements in Sion — what emotional intelligence says, unfiltered, about an organisation's health.

An operational 90-day plan to anchor emotional intelligence in a team or committee based in Sion.

Experiential synthesis: what works, what no longer works, and what is never said publicly about emotional intelligence in Sion.

Four weak signals redrawing the practice of emotional intelligence in Sion this year.

Three approaches to emotional intelligence compared in the field — costs, durations, observed results from Sion.

Cultural and economic reading of emotional intelligence seen from Sion — local specifics and transferable lessons.

An anonymised engagement with a team based in Sion — starting point, programme deployed, six-month results.