EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EI) - Managing Emotions Well in Yourself and in Your Relationships, Motivating Yourself

Developing Yourself:

Achievement Management

Emotional Intelligence (EI)

Managing Emotions Well in Yourself and in Your Relationships

By: Vadim Kotelnikov

Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach – Inspiration, Achievement, Innovation and Happiness unlimited!]

"Don't forget that little emotions are the great captains of our lives." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the best navigators."

Emotional Intelligence Domains and Associated Competencies

Personal Competence²

How You Manage Yourself

Self-Awareness

Emotional self-awareness: Reading your own emotions and recognizing their impact; using 'gut sense' to guide decisions
Accurate self-assessment: Knowing your strengths and weaknesses
Self-confidence: A sound sense of your self-worth and capabilities

Self-Management

Emotional self-control: Keeping disruptive emotions and impulses under control
Transparency: Displaying honesty and integrity; trustworthiness
Adaptability: Flexibility in adapting to changing situations or overcoming obstacles
Achievement: The drive to improve performance to meet inner standards of excellence

COCA Principle of Achievement

Initiative: Readiness to act and seize opportunities
Optimism: Seeing the upside in events

Emotional Intelligence Domains and Associated Competencies

Social Competence²

How You Manage Relationships

Social Awareness

Empathy: Sensing other's emotions, understanding their perspective and taking active interest in their concerns
Organizational awareness: Reading the currents, decision networks, and politics at the organizational level
Service: Recognizing and meeting follower, client, or customer needs

Relationship Management

Inspirational Leadership: Guiding and motivating with a compelling vision
Influence: Wielding a range of tactics for persuasion
Developing others: Bolstering others' abilities through coaching, feedback and guidance
Change catalyst: Initiating, managing, and leading in a new direction
Conflict management: resolving disagreements
Building bonds: Cultivating and maintaining a web of relationships
Teamwork and collaboration: Cooperation and team building

Your People Skills 360

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By: Jim Cairo

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What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Everyone is primarily emotional. Everything that people do, or refrain from doing, is triggered by their deeper emotions.

The Power of Passion

"Emotional Intelligence" refers to your capacity to recognize your own feelings and those of others, for motivating yourself, and for managing emotions well in yourself and in your relationships.

"It describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence, the purely cognitive capabilities measured by IQ. Many people who are book smart but lack emotional intelligence end up working for people who have lower IQs than they but who excel in emotional intelligence skills."¹

Yin-Yang of Happiness

5 Basic Elements and Emotional Intelligence

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A Key to Effective Leadership

Research¹ show that 67% of the essential competencies required for effective leadership today are emotional competencies. Emotionally intelligent leaders are more likely to achieve results and are effective in dealing with the complexity involved in leading change and organizational transformation. Transformational leadership arouses emotion and taps into the emotional and spiritual resources of an organization. It provides the emotional glue that causes organizations and the people in them to excel.

Leader 360

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A global survey of team leaders to executives revealed that emotional intelligence and feelings of team- and non-team-members were among the most important resources an organization has in addressing challenges and reaching goals... More

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Provide an inspiring vision and strategic alignment, launch a crusade. As a leader, you must envision the future, passionately believe that you can make a difference, and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible. You must see a changed world beyond the time horizon, create an ideal and unique image of what it could become, open your followers' eyes and lift their spirits. You must believe that your dreams can become reality and, through your attitude, get people to see exciting opportunities and possibilities for the future. People change and unlock their inner power when they are emotionally engaged and committed... More

Lessons from Jack Welch: Energize Others

Transform Your Business Into an Innovation and Creative Culture

Harvesting Emotional Energy. Values give meaning to people's lives. Organisational performance is directly related to its ability to tap into its human potential.

For many people work is one of the most important ways they are able to give expression to who they are in their search for fulfilment. When a person works for a firm whose values mirror those of their own they will respond by fulfilling their potential and tapping into their deepest levels of creativity.

Align your vision under a clear set of humane values and through living those values your corporate culture will harvest the emotional energy and the creative potential of your employees... More

Declaring Independence from Negative Thinking

By: Stephen Kraus

Step 1: Learn to argue with yourself. Go on the counter-attack. Fight back against the negative thoughts by asking yourself a series of questions that will reveal the Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) as false and counter-productive. Try asking yourself these seven kinds of questions:
- Evidence: What is the objective evidence for this ANT?
- Exaggeration: Am I over-reacting? Am I over-generalizing?
- Utility: Is this belief empowering or counter-productive?... More

Positive Emotions Are the Key To Life

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area... More

The Power of Passion

8-step Emotional Transformation Recipe

Accept full responsibility for the emotion. Even if you don't fully believe it right now, tell yourself, "I Create My Reality, and I am Creating this Emotion Right Now". Usually, people never get beyond step one because they actually believe that outer circumstances are causing their emotions... More

Mediation

Meditation is the most powerful mind tool ever developed. Meditation has been scientifically proven to improve creativity, intelligence, memory, alertness, and to integrate left and right brain functioning. It has been shown to improve physical, mental, and emotional health... More

A Leader's Mood: The Dimmer Switch of Performance

How do you work on attaining the consistent, emotionally intelligent leadership behaviors that breed success in yourself and others? Here are a few other suggestions to consider that can improve your and your team's performance... More