Dr Weisinger has spent 3 decades assisting organizations and individuals improve their personal and work effectiveness through innovative applications of clinical, sage advice. He is the author of Emotional Intelligence at Work, The Emotionally Intelligent Financial Advisor, Dr Weisinger's Anger Workout Book, Anger at Work, The Power of Positive Criticism, and the New York Times Bestseller, Nobody's Perfect.
Back when "feedback" was the buzzword, his early clinical training and practice allowed him to grasp the emotional intricacies of delivering and receiving criticism. Nobody's Perfect, his New York Times bestseller, was the result of his efforts in this field.
Dr Weisinger was introduced to CEOs, managers, supervisors, and line employees in Corporate America as a result of the book's popularity. IBM, AT&T, Merck, Nintendo, Sheraton, Hughes Aircraft, GE, Medtronic, KMPG, McDonald's, The Hartford, Prudential, Hyatt, Estee Lauder, and Nabisco are just a few of the companies that have asked Dr Weisinger to speak to their staff.
The same may be said about government agencies such as the CIA, FBI, IRS, and National Security Agency, to mention a few.
Dr Weisinger has continued to expand his theory and strategies for providing and receiving criticism since Nobody's Perfect, with his most recent views documented in The Power of Positive Criticism, which has been translated into over a dozen languages.
“So You're Afraid to Criticize Your Boss?”, an essay he wrote for The Wall Street Journal, was named one of the sixty greatest pieces ever published in the Journal's Management Column and was republished in Dow Jones on Management.
The paper grabbed the attention of UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management's executive education programme, and Dr Weisinger has been a frequent lecturer in their executive education and executive MBA programmes since the 1980s.
While his reputation for forgiving and accepting criticism grew, Dr Weisinger was also honing a second skill, anger management, which, like giving and taking criticism, is critical to individual and organisational performance. Dr Weisinger was combining cognitive psychology, behaviourism, and interpersonal psychology to develop the pattern for the bulk of anger management programmes long before it was a movie.
He was one of the first psychologists to offer training in the field to the mental health community, so it's no surprise that he's given talks to dozens of mental health groups, hospitals, and school districts. Dr Weisinger's Anger Workout Book is a classic among mental health practitioners, and it's now in its 28th edition.
It's no surprise that Dr Weisinger was on The Today Show five days in a row for their Anger Management Special, as well as on Oprah and in The New York Times Sunday Business Section.
Dr Weisinger adapted his understanding of delivering and accepting criticism to the workplace, resulting in Anger at Work, which is “Highly Recommended to Managers at All Levels,” according to The Library Congress.
Dr Weisinger was considered a world expert in the field of Emotional Intelligence in the mid-1990s, and he lectured on the subject at a number of business schools, including NYU, MIT, Penn State, University of Washington, Cornell, and Wharton, where he is now one of their most popular and highly regarded executive education professors.
His Emotional Intelligence writings are many and varied. Emotional Intelligence at Work, his hallmark book on the subject, is widely regarded as the greatest book on the subject and is available on seven continents. Dr Weisinger gained the knowledge to write The Emotionally Intelligent Financial Advisor, the first book on Emotional Intelligence to be customised to a specific industry.
He worked with Merrill Lynch, Bank America, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney, H$R Block, and numerous other financial service companies, as well as giving numerous presentations for the Security Industry Association. His essay for TV Guide, "Tutored by Television," shows how parents may utilise television to help their children develop emotional intelligence.
Dr Weisinger, who was always seeking new ways to look at human behaviour and always seemed to be ahead of the curve, became interested in evolutionary sciences, notably evolutionary psychology.
His research into what is now known as "the new science of the mind" led him down a road that, when combined with clinical experience, yielded surprising new ideas and techniques for dealing with everyday difficulties that we all face at work and at home.
His most recent book, The Genius of Instinct: Reclaim Mother Nature's Tools for Improving Our Health, Happiness, Family, and Work, is based on his research and observations.
The book contains several insights, such as the notion that we are wired for accomplishment, that humans are more productive than animals because we have more impulses, not less, and that following reason rather than instinct usually leads to disaster. Dr Weisinger has gained new insights on leadership, marriage, parenting, and work as a result of his evolutionary worldview.
Flying Like Superman is Dr Weisinger's next book, which he is currently working on.
