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Items Tagged with 'emotional intelligence'

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Ask the Expert: Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Drive Restoration Success
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Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Drive Restoration Success

JoAnn Wiechmann shares strategies for customer care and team culture in restoration
Kayla McGowan
Kayla McGowan
December 3, 2025
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JoAnn Wiechmann of Blue Kangaroo Packoutz explains how empathy and emotional intelligence improve customer experience and strengthen restoration teams.




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The Human Side of Contents Restoration: Extending Comfort, Empathy and Hope after Disasters

Contents restoration is about more than recovery. It’s about healing, empathy and emotional support.
JoAnn Wiechmann
JoAnn Wiechmann
September 23, 2025
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JoAnn Weichmann shares how contents restoration professionals offer more than their technical expertise with emotional intelligence.  


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Communicating with Intention Makes a Difference to Clients, Coworkers

Simple words mean a lot. Do you make your restoration clients, colleagues and employees feel “happy there”?
Josh Bachman
Josh Bachman
May 8, 2024
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When it’s time to speak, make it count.


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The Invisible Tool Bag: 4 Soft Skills Every Field Technician Should Be Trained On

Eric Sprague
Eric Sprague
January 26, 2022
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If everyone in your local market has the same air movers, dehumidifiers and technical training for their technicians, how do you separate your company from your competition? You do it by training your technicians how to “wow” clients.


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Contents Corner: Why the Pack-Out is Critical to Building Customer Relationships

3 Things Restorers Can Do During Every Pack-Out To Create Customer Trust
Annissa Coy
Annissa Coy
November 5, 2021
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The technology and tools we now have at our disposal for contents cleaning and inventory are great and so nice to have, as long as we remember to use them to enhance our ability to create the right kind of experience for our clients and not use it to replace human interaction and relationships.


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Choosing What Goes Back on Your Table

Michelle Blevins
Michelle Blevins
August 1, 2020

Have you yet found words to even begin to describe life over the last five or six months? I know I haven’t.


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Emotional Intelligence: One of the Keys to a Healthy Company Culture, Part IV

Tom Cline
August 1, 2020
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Each of the attributes we’ve covered in this series on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) builds on the others. That is certainly the case with this fourth and final installment where we cover the element of Relationship Management. 


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Emotional Intelligence: One of the Keys to a Healthy Company Culture, Part III

Tom Cline
June 25, 2020
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The first two articles in this four-part series on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) (part I, part 2) introduced the overall concept and explored the characteristics that are widely believed to make up what is termed “personal competence”—our ability to stay aware of our emotions and manage our behavior and tendencies.


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Emotional Intelligence: One of the Keys to a Healthy Company Culture

Tom Cline
June 15, 2020
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Part one in this four-part series provided an introduction to the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), including identification of the four characteristics that are generally agreed to be at its core.


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Emotional Intelligence: One of the Keys to a Healthy Company Culture, Part I

Tom Cline
May 7, 2020
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It isn’t necessarily the smartest people who are the most successful or feel most fulfilled in life. You may know someone who is academically smart yet is socially inept and unsuccessful at work or in their personal relationships.


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