Monday Mailing
Year 23 • Issue 14 19 December 2016 1. 7 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is One Of The Fastest-Growing Job Skills 2. What Makes a Good Main Street Work? 3. Good Food Talk Webinar Series 4. Rural America At A Glance, 2016 Edition 5. How To Do Creative Placemaking: An Action-Oriented Guide to Arts in Community Development 6. Five Lessons For Resilience 7. Designing for Health with the WELL Building Standard 8. Census Report is Unusually Informative About Rural 9. Environmentalism Was Once a Social-Justice Movement 10. A Sustainable Food System Could Be A Trillion-Dollar Global Windfall 11. Funding Opportunities 1. 7 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is One Of The FastestGrowing Job Skills According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence will be one of the top 10 job skills in 2020.
Quote of the Week: “The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ~E.E. Cummings
Oregon Fast Fact: The Oregon Trail is the longest of the overland routes used in the westward expansion of the United States. The Trail used from 1840 to 1860 began in Missouri and ended in Oregon. It was about 2,000 miles long.
The awareness that emotional intelligence is an important job skill, in some cases even surpassing technical ability, has been growing in recent years. In a 2011 Career Builder Survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers and human resource professionals, 71% stated they valued emotional intelligence in an employee over IQ; 75% said they were more likely to promote a highly emotionally intelligent worker; and 59% claimed they'd pass up a candidate with a high IQ but low emotional intelligence. The question, then, is why companies are putting such a high premium on emotional intelligence. Here are seven of the top reasons why highly emotionally intelligent candidates are so valuable. To access the full story, click here. 2. What Makes a Good Main Street Work? Shortly before this essay’s original posting, I participated in a terrific conference called From Main Street to Eco-Districts: Greening Our Communities, hosted by a chapter of the American Institute for Architects in Corning, New York. Held a block off of Corning’s own, magnificent “Main Street” (actually named Market Street), and including many of the people who have helped make that street so successful, the conference started me thinking about the whole idea of Main Streets and what makes the best of them such delights to experience. I have written at length about Main Streets before, most notably in an article in February 2013 addressing both the metaphorical and literal manifestations of the phenomenon, and lamenting that they seem to be a thing of the past in much of America; in that article I highlighted Sandy Sorlein’s evocative photos of principal shopping streets in small-town America, many of them mere ghosts of their past glory. (More recently, I Page 1 of 6