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”

• Give Me 22 Reasons

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  For over six month, I have had a note posted here on the shelf over my computer. The note says, "Give me 20 good reasons". All this time, I knew what I wanted to write, but I was not sure I would be able to go through the "open heart surgery" of telling you about my loss. I think I was building up the confidence to ...
  17 hours ago

• Primal Leadership

  
  Small Town Pastor — Authority: 134
  During my sabbatical I read the book “ Primal Leadership ” by Daniel Goleman , who notes that, more often than other factors including organizational, environmental, and intellectual capacity, the leader’s emotional intelligence is key to his or her capacity to lead. What is emotional intelligence?  In 1990, ...
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• What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I have always thought of myself as a good mother. It has been easier for me than for other people, because I have studied Special Education and I have had the knowledge to raise happy and successful kids . Yet, during my Better Parenting Skills workshops, I surprise people when I tell them that a big part of my ...
  3 days ago

• A Choice I Could Not Make

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I talk and write a lot about choice. It is no coincidence my motto is "Happiness is a choice!" Yet, there was a time when I could not live by this motto. It was after I had lost two babies. I wanted to make the choice to have only one child and to let go of my desire to go through another pregnancy to satisfy my wish ...
  4 days ago

• Genetic Testing

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Since today is Wednesday, it is my day to post, but surprisingly enough, my post is quite related to our tragic baby story Ronit is sharing with you now. It is related, because one of our babies died from a genetic heart defect, which we had had no knowledge of and therefore had never checked for. A couple of weeks ...
  5 days ago

• Are You The Running (Wo)Man?

  
  Change your Thoughts for true Personal Development — Authority: 415
  In the sci-fi film Imposter (based on a book by BladeRunner author Philip K. Dick) the main character goes on the run after being accused of being an ‘imposter’ alien replicant. He escapes and in the final paragraph of the book finds his own flesh-and-blood dead body – at which point he exclaims: “If that’s ...
  5 days ago

• Kid Grief

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Grief is hard for grownups and can be even harder for kids . As we grieved for our lost hopes and our two dead babies, our very-much-alive daughter Eden was going through a very tough time. [If you reading this blog for the first time and you want to know the reasons for our grief, read our family story in the 3 ...
  6 days ago

• Bright-Sided: Barbara Ehrenreich Examines the American Love of Positive Thinking

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  By HANNA ROSIN I must confess, I have waited my whole life for someone to write a book like “Bright-Sided.” When I was a young child, my family moved to the United States from Israel, where churlishness is a point of pride. As I walked around wearing what I considered a neutral expression, strangers would ...
  1 week ago

• What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Stress Management

  
  Brainware — Authority: 464
  Reading a science article in this mornings NYTimes magazine, I was struck by how much new and useful information on  stress relief  is available today.  More than 25 years ago I taught an occasional night school course on stress management.  At that time we knew a lot about biofeedback, the skills of emotion ...
  1 week ago

• Another Baby Nightmare

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I have been building up courage for a long time to write about some of the defining moments of my life, the moments of misfortune that have helped me become the person I am today. Every time I run a workshop or coach a client, when we get to dealing with hard times, I tell people about my loss and how strong I have ...
  1 week ago

• Baby Hope

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  If you were here yesterday and read about my "heart surgery" this is the next part. If not, please read 35-hour baby first so you can understand why I needed so much hope to move forward. … I spent hours closing my eyes and trying to wake up in a different life, where the scar is not so painful. I knew what it ...
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• How to know if you’ll be good at sales

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 137
  It’s clear to me that emotional intelligence is the most important skill for success in adult life. And the consummate career application of emotional intelligence is the sales department. So  I’m fascinated by sales . I used to think I’m not that good at sales. For example, I’m an open book—I have very ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t Try to Be All Things to All People

  
  Networking Now — Authority: 113
  I received an e-mail today from someone in my organization who said that entrepreneurs and business professionals really need help in management, sales, accounting, taxes and many other issues.  So far, so good–I couldn’t agree more! Then he suggested that our organization would be so much better if we provided ...
  1 week ago

• Ellen DeGeneres:A Sapphic Victory, but Pyrrhic

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  By FRANK BRUNI BEFORE millions of television viewers, under the dewy and beneficent gaze of Oprah Winfrey , the two of them traded moony glances. They held hands. They spoke the language of sonnets and torch songs. “It was like an arrow was shot through my heart,” one said, describing an early meeting. “I ...
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• 35-hour Baby

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  I have been writing this blog for over two years now and published more than 500 posts about parenting , but I know I have been skipping a big part of my own parenting . I have been skipping this part deliberately, not because I think it is not important, but because it is too important to write about it lightly. ...
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• Papertrain Your Problem Relatives for Thanksgiving *

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  An ounce of flattery will get you a well behaved guest Do you have any relatives or friends that ruin everyones time on Thanksgiving or Christmas and you cant un-invite them? Do you feel guilty at wishing theyll either have other plans or be too sick to come? Do you wish there was a way to papertrain them so ...
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• Give You A Break!

  
  Results vs. Activities — Authority: 116
  HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: TED TV Competency: self development Who benefits: people in a learning mode Consultant Usage: possible reference for clients What’s it about?   Whatcha doing right now?  Got a break coming up?  Going out for a smoke?  To the fridge for some calories?  How ...
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• Detecting Heart Beats

  
  Thriving too — Authority: 124
  Further research has been done recently into the mechanisms for physical self-awareness. In an article in New Scientist , researchers described how tests on a man believed to have a damaged insula, the part of the brain believed to process sensory feelings from around the body. The test showed that the man was aware ...
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• Balance Connection and Conviction to Reduce Anxiety and Lead Effectively

  
  Sources of Insight — Authority: 460
  Here’s a lens you can use to lower your anxiety and lead yourself and others more effectively.  It’s balancing connection and conviction.  It’s a good, simple model, with a lot of depth behind it. The key is to be able to take a thoughtful position while staying connected to others who disagree.  I learned ...
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• When Partners Differ

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 125
  Parenting kids is a challenge for most people. There are many things that make parenting such a challenge, but one of the big ones is that a couple of parents is made up of two different individuals, each with their own upbringing, values, beliefs and preferences. If life was just smooth sailing, this would not ...
  1 week ago

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