Emotional Intelligence 2.0

by Travis Bradberry , Jean Greaves

Number of pages: 255

Publisher: TalentSmart

BBB Library: Personal Success

ISBN: 9780974320625



About the Authors

Travis Bradberry : Travis Bradberry is an American author on the subject of emotional

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Jean Greaves : Dr. Jean Greaves is a cofounders of TalentSmart, Inc. Dr. Greaves

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Editorial Review

How much of an impact does Emotional intelligence (EQ) on your professional success? The short answer is: a lot! EQ has been tested alongside 33 other important workplace behaviors and was found to subsume the majority of them, including time management, decision- making and communication. EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58% of performance in all types of jobs. It’s the single biggest predictor of performance in the workplace and the strongest driver of leadership and personal excellence.

Book Reviews

"To become self-aware, you need a great deal of high-quality, objective feedback on your emotions and your behavior. If you have people in your life that can do this constructively, that’s great. It’s also highly unusual. That’s never an easy conversation to have. There’s a much easier way to get the feedback you need and that’s through an emotional intelligence test. The Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book includes access to our Emotional Intelligence Appraisal test for this very purpose." HuffPost Books

"One of the advantages of this short and to the point book is that it comes with an authorisation code to undertake an on-line assessment of your emotional intelligence both at the start and once again once you have developed your skills. And it helps you to develop an EQ action plan. To have your emotional intelligence measured by qualified assessors would cost several times the cost of the book so it’s a good deal. The other advantage of the book is that, after a brief introduction (including a review of the five core human emotions and how they alter in intensity), it focuses on providing 66 simple, practical exercises to help you develop your chosen area (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management) – whether building on existing strengths or addressing any weaknesses. There’s a huge amount of applied psychology included covering well known and unusual techniques spanning physical, emotional and cognitive approaches." The Open University Business School

"Emotional Intelligence has been identified since the 1990s as one of the key areas influencing our ability to succeed. We are a social species and our relationships help define us. There has been a lot of excellent research in the field — but knowing the theory and knowing how to apply it can be two different things. Emotional intelligence programs are a growing part of training and development for many companies, and TalentSmart has been in the business for a decade. Emotional Intelligence 2.0, by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves, offers TalentSmart’s program for the first time in book form. The book has an accessible and practical self-contained program to identify and improve skills to enhance emotional intelligence, and I recommend it highly." BlogCritics.org

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Wisdom to Share

EQ is so critical to success that it accounts for 58% of performance in all types of jobs.

To be self-aware is to know yourself as you really are.

Getting to know yourself inside and out is a continuous journey of peeling back the layers of the onion and becoming more and more comfortable with what is in the middle.

Since emotions are the primary drivers of your behavior, it’s important you understand the effect they have on other people.

To better understand the physical effects of your emotions, try closing your eyes and think of a couple of events from your life—one positive and one negative—that generate strong emotions.

The biggest obstacle to increasing your self-awareness is the tendency to avoid the discomfort that comes from seeing yourself as you really are.

Ignoring your feelings does not make them go away; it just helps them to surface again when you least expect them.

We all have buttons that, when pushed, just irritate us until we want to scream.

A good mood can deceive your thinking just as much as a bad one. When you are feeling excited and really happy, it’s easy to do something you’ll regret.

Without question, how you feel is reflected in how you look. Your facial expressions, posture, clothes and even your hair all say important things about your mood.

Taking a moment here and there to check yourself will allow you to understand your mood before it sets the tone for the rest of your day.

Others’ views can be a real eye-opener.

Whenever you find your mind having a battle of the brains (emotional vs. rational), it’s time to make a list that distinguishes the emotional side of the argument from the rational one.

There is no more powerful motivation to reach your goals than making them public.

Accept responsibility for your actions and no one else’s. In other words, stop telling yourself “it’s all my fault” or even “it’s all their fault”.

To get a complete read from a person, do a head-to-toe body language assessment.

The body communicates nonstop and is an abundant source of information.

A back-pocket question is what you use just in case to bail you out of any awkward silence.

A great place to observe others is at meetings.

EQ is a skill set that can be learned and unlearned

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