via Gfycat Do you have three seconds to become more emotionally intelligent? Humans are reactive and emotional creatures by nature. This means that in the stress of a workplace we often find ourselves in emotionally charged situations. Becoming more flexible and insightful when we encounter these moments will not only improve our work
As a leader, you do your best to make your team work: you keep them focused and working towards their objectives, managing their workloads, and reporting up the ladder their successes towards strategic initiatives. But it takes more than closely controlled timelines that get deliverables done on schedule. Consider the emotional work of leadership.
Four foundations of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence, or “the capacity to reason about emotions and emotional information, and of emotions to enhance thought,” is important for understanding our own and others' emotions so that we can improve interpersonal relationships (Mayer, 2009). Have you ever allowed yourself to get worked up in a meeting and then regretted yelling at
When you meet someone, it's often easy to tell if they're emotionally intelligent simply by their vibe and how they carry themselves. Folks with high emotional intelligence tend to have several habits in common, all of which add up to make them easy to get along with. These traits also tend to earn them all sorts of
They mean the exact opposite of what you think. But only emotional intelligent people understand why. The words hit me like a hurricane: "I know how you feel." They're right there on pages 80 and 81 of my colleague Justin Bariso's new book about emotional intelligence. They're simple words, and real--and yet as Justin writes,
Own it or not, we are emotional creatures, and often our emotions get the best of us. Two of the top reasons someone hates a job are that they don’t like their coworkers, or they don’t like their boss, because they are jerks. I have never met someone whose intention is to be known as