Emotional Intelligence… Key to Unleashing Your Potential

Emotional intelligence (EI) is widely recognized as the single most important success factor in life and in business.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung

What is Emotional Intelligence?

The term was made popular by Daniel Goleman as one’s ability to:

• Discriminate among them and
• Use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.

As a professional coach with 25 years of work experience in the arts and culture sector, first as an actor/director and then as event producer engaging hundreds of volunteers and diverse stakeholder groups to produce festivals, conferences and events, and then as healer, helping people learn to manage stress, renew, re-balance and achieve wellness through relaxation, energy healing techniques  and healthy lifestyle choices, I am convinced that developing your emotional intelligence is critical to your professional success and will bring you a wealth of self knowledge, self acceptance and personal happiness.

How Important is EI?

Your emotional quotient reflects your relationship:

• To yourself through self-awareness and emotional self-management
• To others through competencies of social awareness and relationship management.

 

Self-awareness represents the ability to:

• Recognize and identify emotions
• Understand the cause of feelings and
• Recognize the difference between feelings and actions.

Self-management represents the capabilities of:

• Emotional self control
• Adaptability
• Openness
• Ability to focus
• Accept responsibility
• Taking initiative and applying oneself.

Social awareness refers to:

• Aptitudes of sensitivity and empathy
• Appreciating another’s point of view
• Service orientation and
• Organizational awareness.
• Communicate
• Collaborate and develop trust, share, inspire and lead.

Relationship management refers to the ability to:

• Inspire and influence others
• Recognize and develop potential in others
• Activate and facilitate change management processes
• Resolve and manage conflicts
• Cultivate and strengthen relations
• Facilitate collaboration and teamwork

The good news is that ALL aspects of EI can be developed and significantly improved through life coaching.

Self-care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring yourself. If you neglect yourself, how will you celebrate and enjoy your success?

How Does Coaching Help?

Emotions are an important source of information and knowledge – an inbuilt feedback system. Developing personal courage, integrity and self confidence are competencies that help in effectively facing and adapting to change.

Improving emotional intelligence helps you in:

• Coping with emotions
• Developing self control and intrapersonal skills through increased self knowledge
• Building self esteem
• Building self confidence
• Setting personal boundaries
• Creating work life balance
• Developing social intelligence and empathy
• Improving teamwork skills and self motivation
• Achievement motivation
• Developing analytical and conceptual thinking and problem solving skills
• Becoming a better leader

Not only is EI essential for success in your personal life, understanding and mastering your emotions is critical for your workplace, career and business success. Learn more.