Emotional Intelligence in Business: EQ: The Essential Ingredient to Survive and Thrive as a Modern Workplace Leader

By R Stevens

Do you sometimes overreact when the stakes are high?
Maybe it´s hard for you to understand what effect your decisions have on your team´s motivation?
Or do you react without thinking when a peer surprise with a question you were not prepared for?
If so, then keep on reading.

According to experts like author Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence contributes to over 80% of business success. You can argue about the exact percentage, but it´s common sense that IQ doesn´t give any guarantees by itself.

Back in the Industrial age, a manager solely relying on his IQ could be successful.

But we have entered the Information Age now.

Having a high IQ isn´t enough anymore to manage modern-day knowledge workers and millennials. The higher your Emotional Intelligence the better your results to empower the team. Your team needs a solid and stable manager during this time of constant change. And you can be that manager, simply being applying your Emotional Intelligence.

Elon Musk (Tesla, Space X) and Warren Buffett (Investor) became billionaires thanks to their high emotional intelligence.

A small part of what you will discover in Emotional Intelligence in Business:

• How to simplify your internal decision-making process to become more productive (page 55)
• How you can manage the emotions of your employees and peers to reach your desired goal (page 16)
• The 3 emotions you want to avoid to occur within your team (page 16)
• The 4-week EQ booster program, from EQ student to EQ master in 20 minutes a day (page 84)
• 9 ways to long-lasting self-motivation, to become your best self (page 63)
• 7 traps where emotion wins over logic, leading to bad results. And how you can overcome them, so you´ll reach your desired end goals (page 31)
• The easy 5 step model you can use to manage and reduce your worries for better leadership (page 58)
• How to recognize the 7 facial expressions in 1 second so you know exactly what to say in a difficult conversation (page 69)
• 7 short and simple steps to switch from sympathy to empathy and boost the productivity of your team (page 73)
• 3 ways to leverage positive emotions in your team even better (page 80)

And much, much more.

You might think Emotional Intelligence is a trait you´re born with. Scientific studies proof, that after only a few hours practicing Emotional Intelligence with 5-year old's, they noticed a significant improvement. It´s a skill you can develop and improve in a short amount of time, despite your age. That´s why a big part of this book is dedicated to the 4-week EQ booster program, which you can apply in just 20 minutes a day.

In this program, written in plain English, you will be guided day-by-day to improve your self-awareness, empathy and your people management skills.

Furthermore, Emotional Intelligence in Business is jampacked with practical business and office place examples. In each scenario, you´ll be shown common mistakes, and then how to do things the right way.

In the modern workplace, the higher your EQ to higher your earning potential.

So, if you don´t want to miss out on the next promotion round and pay raise, scroll up, click ´add to cart´ and begin improving your Emotional Intelligence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.Stevens
• Release date: Oct 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393746188

R Stevens

Peter Brooke spent over 30 years with Allied Breweries and Carlsberg Tetley, including 6 years as Director of Tetley’s Leeds Brewery. He was also President of the Institute of Brewing from 1997 to 1999.

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Emotional Intelligence in Business

EQ: The Essential Ingredient to Survive and Thrive as a Modern Workplace Leader

R. Stevens

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Hello,

´As time goes on and technology gets more and more advanced, EQ (emotional intelligence) will become far more important than IQ – excited to be living at the dawn of this era and to watch it unfold!´

- Quote from Gary Vaynerchuck, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, 5’time NYT Bestselling author and Internet Celebrity.

As you can read, in business, your Emotional Intelligence becomes more and more important for a smoother and faster career-and salary development. Your high IQ is not sufficient anymore.

The better your Emotional Intelligence the better:

and higher your self-awareness

your view and vision on your goals and goals of your organization

your decision making, you make decisions based on sound logic instead on emotions

your communication skills, smoother communication both 1-to-1 as in groups

your negotiation skills

Or to summarize it one word: your leadership skills

So, don´t wait long to receive ´The 30-Day Emotional Intelligence Booster Program´ in PDF format as well, by clicking the link below:

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Why YOU Need This Book!

Chapter 1: Human Emotions

Basic Human Emotions

Understanding Advance Combination Emotions (ACE)

Why Do We Have Emotions?

Why Are Emotions Important in Business?

Emotions vs. Logic

The Role of Emotion vs. Logic in Decision Making

Chapter 2: 3 EQ Models Every Business Leader Needs to Know

Emotional Intelligence Ability

Mixed Model Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence Trait Model

Chapter 3: Introspection

Self-Awareness and Introspection

Self-Regulation and the Control Paradigm

Self-Motivation

Chapter 4:´ Extrospection´

Recognizing Emotion in Others

Sympathy and Empathy: The Great Divide

How to Master Social Skills

How Should You Respond to Other People’s Reactions?

How to Leverage Positive Emotions in Other People

How to Deal With Negative Emotions in Other People

Chapter 5: 30-Day Emotional Intelligence Booster Program

Week 1: Learning to Recognize Emotions

Week 2: Learning to Use Emotions

Week 3: Observation

Week 4: How to Respond and Not React

Conclusion

References

Introduction

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence. It is not the triumph of heart overhead. It is the unique intersection of both. –  David Caruso

IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE a team manager working for a large multinational company.  Due to economic crashes having taken place over the world, the company is now in a complete tailspin and looking to downsize. It is something that you have found out recently. You have been called into a meeting by the upper management and told that there are specific issues that you need to address in your own team, including dedication and productivity.

Shocked and caught unaware, you walk back to your own corner office and call your entire team in.

I have really bad news. I was informed by the higher-ups that our team performance is absolutely abysmal.  We need to straighten up; if we don’t pour our number by the end of this business quarter, we will have to lose members.  Since none of us want that, I have decided to make a few major changes so that we can meet the deadline and targets.  The first order is that all sanctioned vacations for this quarter are officially canceled.  You will all have to be here at work in your most productive behavior and meet the weekly goals no matter how hard it is or how long it takes.

How does that little speech make you feel? Do you feel motivated? Are you pumped to work harder than ever and make sure that you and your colleagues stay safe? Do you feel like there is something wrong with the way that you just spoke? Can you identify the problems with what you said?

We understand that it’s hard when you can’t, but on the bright side, that isn’t a problem you need to live with anymore, because we’re going to walk you through every basic and advanced skill associated with emotional intelligence.

First off, thank you for downloading this book, Emotional Intelligence in Business - The Essential Ingredient to Survive and Thrive as a Modern Workplace Leader, where we will carefully walk you through not just how emotional intelligence works but also what the common models are and how they apply to the workforce in today’s world.

You see, the thing about emotional intelligence is that it is more than just basic logic. While human beings tend to use emotional reasoning when incidents relate to themselves or their own well-being, they oddly do not have that same instinct when they work with others. The initial gut reaction is to be logical, which is not always enough. That is why understanding and honing your emotional intelligence is such an important part of industry growth right now.

Imagine that you are dealing with an extremely pampered child who does not know how to cook. He will be living alone in the next few months on a shoestring budget, and so restaurant meals are way too pricey to be considered. What is your knee-jerk reaction to that? Some may be quick to say, Learn to cook!

It’s the same with emotional intelligence. It may be a skill that you do not possess, but the industry standard demands it. Thus, you have to acquire it.

Emotional Intelligence in Business - The Essential Ingredient to Survive and Thrive as a Modern Workplace Leader is more than a theoretical book on emotional intelligence theory. It is a comprehensive study on how your emotional quotient (EQ) can not only help enhance your quality of life but also promote and cultivate personal and professional growth.

Let’s go back to that example about the team manager earlier. Now, we will get to the content of his message later, but we should focus on how the information in question has been delivered. 

The team manager’s delivery of the message was clearly not optimum. The members attended the meeting and came out with bad news. It gave them no time to process this bad news; the manager immediately conveyed the information in such a way that basically made the entire situation worse.

It seems obvious, but what is causing this?

The problem is, not everyone can put their finger on why this specific briefing sounds off, and perhaps neither can you (well, not yet, at least). However, if you keep on reading, you will soon find that the reason is that the team manager has failed to deliver in accordance with the basic emotional intelligence models that we are about to discuss below. What makes it worse is that the three factors that he happens to completely overlook include self-awareness, self-management, and empathy. Because they are so fundamental to the application of emotional intelligence, the entire speech itself is void of any form of EQ. By failing to insert EQ into his leadership, it has made the team manager’s ability to lead questionable.

Why YOU Need This Book!

As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership. –  Amit Ray

EVER HEARD OF THE SAYING Knowledge is power?

Well, there is no better way of describing what damage emotional ignorance can cause, particularly in terms of your own health and worth as a business leader. 

Today, some of the most successful leaders in the world have gotten to where they are because they have made an active choice to use emotional intelligence in their day-to-day lives and interactions with their company, as well as the teams and employees under it.

First off, Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox, is specifically known for her assertiveness and ability to use mission-based goals to create motivation in her