How's your EI?
Richard Branson, Winston Churchill, Sir John Harvey Jones. None of them exactly sparkled at school – and yet it didn’t seem to hold them back. Maybe you know someone yourself who was a genius in the classroom but who’s made heavy weather of their career. The reason is simple. I.Q is only one aspect of doing well. The other is our ability to empathise, to fit in, to understand, to handle others - and ourselves. We call it Emotional Intelligence or EI.
It is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships. - Daniel Goleman, 1998
EI refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions in us and in our relationships. EI describes abilities distinct from, but complementary to, academic intelligence or the purely cognitive capacities measured by IQ.
Traditionally, the emphasis when evaluating potential performance has been on intellectual; now compelling research indicates that emotional intelligence is twice as important as IQ plus technical skills for outstanding performance. When IQ test scores are correlated with how well people perform in their careers, the highest estimate of how much difference IQ accounts for is about 25%.
As a manager of a telecommunications company sums it up, "You don't compete with products alone anymore, but how well you use your people".
If you are serious about more effective performance, Edison have one of the most effective approaches. This programme of learning will take the best people and make them better. And take mediocre performing people and turn them into effective leaders.
So if you think that improved personal effectiveness may be your route to increased personal performance.
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emotional competence is a learned capacity based on emotional intelligence that results in outstanding performance at work. For superior performance in jobs of all kinds, emotional competence matters twice as much as IQ plus technical skill combined.