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"Awareness is itself a
healing quality. Where awareness is focused, the deepest potential for
clarity and balance present themselves."
-Steven Levine |
The Way of Discovery Quarterly
Newsletter is provided to give you a moment to consider balance and
bridging in all aspects of your life. I would be grateful for your
thoughts on the "Question of this Issue." If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact
me.
Please visit our new-and-improved Web site at
WayofDiscovery.com!
-Victoria Crawford, Founder
Emotional
Intelligence - What's your business EQ?
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Question of this Issue:
The good news is that EQ is a skill
and can always be learned and improved.
What is your greatest challenge as an Emotional Leader?
Contact Victoria at 602-870-0060 or
e-mail to discuss EQ and ways to create higher levels of performance within
your business.
This October I will be presenting a 4-hour
workshop called, Best Year Yet. This workshop deepens skills for
Emotional Intelligence and helps you create balance between your work
and personal life.
This is part of the system I use to create
achievement and trust with business teams.
Please join me.
Invitational Workshop
October 3, 2003
8:00-12:00
University of Phoenix
4605 East Elwood
Cost for
the workshop is $150.00 and includes book, workbook and workshop.
E-mail here to register. |
 What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence has become one of corporate America's hottest
buzzwords. Two years ago Harvard Business Review published an
article on Emotional Intelligence. It attracted a higher percentage of
readers than any other previous article in the last 40 years.
According to Daniel Goleman, Psychologist and New York Times bestselling
author, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is
being aware and smart about your own and others' emotions. This is
different from Intellectual Intelligence (IQ), which is being smart
about information and knowledge.
Goleman, with two colleagues, has written a new book called Primal
Leadership. It's main focus is on EQ and leadership. They cite two
abilities of a leader as keys to improving the performance of the
overall business.
The first is Personal Competence. This is the leader's ability to manage
and use their own emotions. The second is called Social Competence and
this is the ability to perceive and connect with the emotions of their
colleagues.
Goleman states, " How well leaders manage their moods and affect
everyone else's moods, then becomes not just a private matter, but a
factor in how well a business will do." He and his colleagues conclude,
that EQ is more relevant to success than IQ.
He goes on to say that a leader's most important job is to keep the
emotions of the work group moving in a positive direction. This type of
leadership doesn't present itself in a rah-rah way or in an annual
report but instead it's a quieter, and more subtle. The 'emotional
leader' always values the importance of other people's perspectives and
encourages collaboration. He inspires and influences others by his very
presence. Leaders that are well developed in the areas of Emotional
Intelligence consistently perform at higher levels and naturally deepen
trust within the organization.
Reference: What's your EQ? Toastmaster July 2003, Judith
Tingley Ph. D.
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