emotional intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI), also known as Emotional Quotient (EQ), is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge from one's emotions and the emotions of others in order to clearly guide one's thinking and action. This capability enables people to make good choices in-the-moment and have more effective control over themselves while positively influencing others.

Originally described by a number of psychologists including Howard Gardner, Peter Salovey and John Mayer, EI gained media attention in 1995 with the publication of Daniel Goleman's best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence. Offering a new way to understand and improve people's performance, EI can be applied to a broad range of organizational development areas such as leadership development, management styles, change management, employee engagement as well as many human resource issues such as hiring, promoting and retaining talent.

EI research sparked the development of a number of EI theoretical models, each with a unique view or set of competencies, as well as a number of EI assessments. Some researchers claim that EI can be learned and enhanced through Emotional Intelligence training and coaching, the results of which should be measured at the individual, team and organizational levels. You'll find bloggers talking about EI at sites like John M's Blog and Emotional Intelligence Leadership.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “emotional intelligence”

• Who You Are Makes a Difference

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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• Emotions as Spirit

  
  Blogging on Good Therapy — Authority: 142
  By Anne Ream, ATR-BC, LPC Click here to contact Anne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For the past 64 years I have been asking, “What is soul? What is spirit?” During my middle adult years I began to realize that, because I have spent my life working empathetically with people, I had become a kind of ...
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• Work-Life Imbalance

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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  Anger Management ala George Anderson — Authority: 109
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  Anger Management ala George Anderson — Authority: 109
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• On The Advisability Of Tooting Horns, Yours And Others

  
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• Better Parenting Skills

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Just recently, I ran another Better Parenting skills workshop and Gal (my boyfriend, husband, the father of my kids and business partner) was there during the first part of the day. He said to me, "This is very special. You have to write about this". "But if running a full day workshop took me 8 hours, writing ...
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• Five Questions for Testing Relationship Barriers

  
  Brainware — Authority: 125
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  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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  Business to Business b2b | Marketing | eCommerce | Telemarketing — Authority: 155
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• Responsible Parenting

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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  Brainware — Authority: 125
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• How to Praise Your Kids (4)

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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• How to Praise Your Kids (3)

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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• How to Praise Your Kids (2)

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  If you are a regular visitor to this site, you are probably familiar with many of the coaching tips I give parents. Some of them are related to praising kids . But praise can take on many forms, so which is best? Yesterday, I wrote about Prof. Carol Dwecks research on the difference between praising effort vs. ...
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• A Dysfunctional Personality, But a Career Success

  
  Brainware — Authority: 125
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• How to Praise Your Kids (1)

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
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