Yeah...it's a bit of a catch-up to get the last few days in the blog....but life has been a crazy adventure the past week!
With the final few days to the Big Birthday, I was leading a training week for my team, which means I was out-of-pocket for anything else all week physically and emotionally.
One part of the week I was excited about was Emotional Intelligence. I was exposed to the concept at work a few years ago and was also reading a book by Daniel Goleman (The renowned EQ expert) and wanted to teach the new generation at work about the importance of this aspect in balance with the more conventional IQ.
Quite interesting the facts that are proposed...that success is based on 3 areas of excellence:
1. Intelligence (IQ) - the theory of how something is done
2. Expertise - building up experience and the practical actions of decisions
3. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) or "Soft Skills" - how you actually act on your thoughts and decisions and the interaction with others
A range of studies have been done to determine what is most important to "success" in life and interestingly only a small amount (~4-25% from various studies) is based on IQ. The majority (~67% for professional workers) is from EQ. Quite interesting...
Reading through the various dimensions and classifications of EQ reads like a list of common sense aspects. but reading the stories shows that we all might not be a great at these things as we think...and that age is a factor as you "mature"
So getting older is better...I might become a little more emotionally intelligent..sweet!
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thought you might be interested in Daniel Goleman's dialogue series as well. It's called 'Wired to Connect', in which he discusses the applications of emotional/social intelligence with leading thinkers from a variety of fields. there are free samples you can listen to at the publisher's wesbite: www.morethansound.net
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