The session on emotional intelligence, presented by Shameen Naidu, turned out to be a self assessment encounter. We had the opportunity to do individual emotional intelligence and self awareness tests. The interpretation of the scores from these tests provided me with some important checks and balances on my emotional standing. I learnt a valuable lesson that learning to develop my emotional intelligence as well as skills is vital in building a successful career especially in a service oriented corporate environment.
In today’s intensely competitive and highly demanding business environment, the ability to manage emotions effectively is indispensable. Emotion states such as happiness facilitates happiness are instrumental in facilitating innovativeness and creativity. Ability to manage emotion in oneself and others by moderating negative emotions and enhancing pleasant ones, fosters an enabling environment for establishing good relationships and team work initiatives.
According to Goleman, many people with very high intellectual intelligence do poorly in work and relationships because they have low emotional intelligence. In life a person needs to be effective both alone and as a team player.
2 comments:
Maxwell, I am glad that now we can publish comments on your blog. I also found Shameen Naidu's presentation extremely useful.
One really needs to know well his (her) emotions-they define to a large extent your beliefs, attitudes and relationship to others and to the world at large.
Maxwell,
I find it very interesting how trends are started and how they evolve. Suddenly emotional intelligence is the buzz word. But I suppose it helps that people are researching and writing about it. Giving you and I guidelines for managing our emotions. I still think some of these things are too 'text book', the reality is sometimes quite different.
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