Johanatan Slane - 23 Apr

Everyone wants to improve their job, to get better at what they do. Its a part of what makes us human. We desire innovation and the ability to overcome unique challenges. And that involves investing our entire selves into what we do. Perhaps, you are looking for ways to improve and develop further at work. There are many ways that we can improve our various situations by having the right attitude and work habits to promote productivity.

One of the ways of developing productivity is by becoming emotionally mature in handling different situations. We have to develop emotional intelligence, to know how people are feeling at work, and think of different ways that we can improve the workspace at the office and promote worker happiness and satisfaction. That is one of our responsibilities as managers. It is to find ways that we can engage our employees and bring them to higher productivity and achievement so that we can promote our products and services and allow our customers to be happy. Therefore, it is crucial that we find ways to connect with our workers emotional needs and it is helpful to have emotional intelligence.

There are different benefits to developing one's emotional intelligence. For one, managers can learn to handle their teams better. Managers can learn what motivates their team and how they become emotionally sensitive to different issues. They can also learn how to handle demanding colleagues, who can be hard to deal with their emotional reactions and constant negativity at work. Additionally, emotional intelligence allows managers to create a working environment, where employees are developing positive and meaningful relationships with their peers. For employees, the benefits of gauging emotional intelligence can be helpful, because they can use social skills, the right emotions at the right time. They can then get things like pay raise or a promotion so that they can live happier lives. Finding the right motivations is a critical factor in increasing satisfaction in different people. Therefore, it is one of the best ways of getting people to perform well at work.

The history of emotional intelligence research began with Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. These two researchers created the term emotional intelligence. They started a research program to highlight different measures of emotional intelligence in people. In one study, they discovered that when a group of people saw an emotionally-stirring film, those that had a higher emotional sensitivity were able to recover much more quickly than the ones that didn't. Within another study, people who were able to assess emotions accurately were able to adjust to changes within their social life and build positive social networks.

In the 1990s, Daniel Goleman wrote a book, Emotional Intelligence (1995), which argued that emotional intelligence is more important than IQ in determining the success of an individual. He regularly coaches others about the different competencies involved in relationship management. And he says that when someone focuses on improving their awareness of emotions, they will be able to see better health benefits and improvement in their relationships. The research of Daniel Coleman has helped people as they have discovered the importance of emotional intelligence and how it can help develop a sense of community within different social circles.

This book is called Emotional Intelligence for Leadership, and it is going to show you all the different ways of developing emotional intelligence that will help your team to thrive with happy employees who will produce excellent work in your company. We will talk about various aspects of emotional intelligence, including self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, social skills, and assertiveness to become more productive. Having all of this knowledge will help you to become a better manager and to get more done with less time and energy. Within this book, we will give examples of the work environment with different stories to illustrate our points and provide a real-life scenario that you can understand completely. We want to allow this material to come alive as you are reading it, so you will have fun and learn a lot in the process.