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Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

In today's world where our increasing knowledge about trauma and the impact of it on brain development and behaviour, informs our practice within teams, classrooms and families, never has it been more necessary to understand emotional intelligence.  How self awareness, self management, empathy and skilled relationship seriously up-levels the effectiveness of our work and pleasure together. 

Goleman in his book "Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence" brings together the salient learning from a number of his lengthier publications about why we need more emotionally intelligence leadership.  

He writes "While technical knowledge will get you hired, a lack of emotional intelligence will get you fired." 

In his selected writings he addresses:
  • Managing with Heart
  • The Group IQ
  • The Primal Leadership Model
  • The Social Brain
  • The Sweet Spot for Achievement and 
  • Developing Emotional Intelligence amongst others.

If you still aren't sure if you want to splash out the £4.99 this will cost you on Kindle, (sorry it isn't available on Audible), then check out some of his short videos on You Tube.  

Here are two of my favourites:

The Big Think

Goleman introduces Emotional Intelligence.  In this he talks about what EI is and how it impacts on our performance.  Of particular interest is his commentary on research which shows that when Emotional Intelligence programmes are introduced in schools there are interesting impacts on Anti Social Behaviour (reduced by 10%), Pro Social Behaviour (increased by 10%), Academic Achievement (Increased by 11%) and Executive Functioning overall is improved.

The Sweet Spot

Goleman talks about the Sweet Spot for achievement or productivity.  A careful balancing act of not too much and not too little.  He discusses the two axis' of performance and arousal and what happens if you have low arousal and low stress - (sleep or boredom), and what happens if you have high performance and high arousal (frazzle, and yes it's a technical word apparently).  But if you balance the two and have a manageable level of arousal (stress) performance peaks.