Emotional Intelligence
Years ago I read Daniel Goleman's “Emotional Intelligence”. I still remember the part about how the development of emotional intelligence can be supported right from the start of a human beings life and within the family in general. In 1998 he published an article relating emotional intelligence to leaders: What makes a leader? His research clearly showed that calculating the ratio of technical skills, IQ and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important for successful leadership at all levels with a tendency to play an increasingly important role at the highest levels of a company.
So what is emotional intelligence at work consisting of? There are 5 aspects: self-awareness (recognize and understand own moods, emotions and drives, as well as their effect on others), self-regulation (control and redirect disruptive impulses and moods), motivation (passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status), empathy (understand emotional makeup of other people), social skill (proficiency in managing relationships and building networks).
Although we deal with kind of intangible skills compared to technical knowledge emotional intelligence can be learned. Classical learning does not help though. People must get individual help in breaking old behaviors and establish new ones.
Daniel Goleman has a blog! Amongst the more recent entries I found the one on IQ a pretty interesting read.
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08:22PM Apr 26, 2007
by Volker Seubert in Human Resources |
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Posted by Anson on January 23, 2008 at 05:00 AM CET #