In a recent report, top human resources officers were asked to forecast the 10 job skills they feel will be an absolute requirement by the year 2020. Coming in at number six was emotional intelligence, which surprisingly landed above more cognitive skills like "judgment and decision-making" and "negotiation."Emotional intelligence has garnered considerable press over the years as an important
Stop trying to “manage” your feelings, and do this instead. Listening is a skill–but you already know that. There’s plenty of advice on how to become a better listener and why it’s so important. But while you can pick up a few tactics to improve the way you listen, another route is simply to tap into that other skill set you
A direct report tells you in anguish that his computer crashed, taking the presentation he was preparing for the board with it. As a member of the C-suite, you’re accustomed to putting on your poker face, tamping down emotions and giving measured responses in a crisis. But what happens when you’d like to let your
Singaporean CIOs believe it is important for their IT staff to have high emotional intelligence, a measure of a person’s ability to recognise and react to other people’s emotions and their own, according to research from Robert Half Singapore. The research showed that 100% of surveyed CIOs believe their IT professionals should have a high
When going to work, one does not necessarily consider the emotional aspect of it, which in reality plays a significant role in your productivity and success. We are after all emotionally driven creatures, whether we want to be or not. This is where the term Emotional Intelligence comes in. It’s the ability to recognise specific
8 behaviours of emotionally intelligent people In both the original and 2017 Bladerunner movies, replicants are synthetic humans, who are often extremely intelligent and strong. However, while they superficially resemble humans in many ways, they lack some of our most fundamental emotions, such as empathy. And while it may seem strange at first, emotions actually play an