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Get smart about your feelings to achieve success and happiness
Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is all about perceiving, using, understanding, managing, and handling your emotions and those of others. Develop crucial emotional skills that will help you in your career and in your personal life with Emotional Intelligence For Dummies. Learn to manage your emotions, uncover the power of empathy, and build meaningful relationships. Raise emotionally intelligent kids, become a better leader at work, and land the job you want. Let Dummies be your guide to living your best life!
* Gain emotional awareness that you can use in the workplace and at home
* Engage in practical exercises to develop your emotional intelligence skills
* Apply emotional intelligence in parenting children and teenagers
* Reduce stress and realize greater personal happiness with a higher EQ
This new edition incorporates the latest research on emotional intelligence, the new EQ-i 2.0(r) model, and updated exercises. Anyone who wants to get a grip on their emotions and seek success in life will benefit from this fun and practical guide.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: There's a New Kind of Intelligence in Town 5
Chapter 1: Feeling Smart 7
Chapter 2: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence 21
Chapter 3: Finding Happiness 31
Part 2: The Essentials of Emotional Intelligence 41
Chapter 4: Investigating the Science Behind Emotional Intelligence 43
Chapter 5: Becoming More Aware of Your Emotions 61
Chapter 6: Managing Your Emotions 81
Chapter 7: Understanding Empathy 99
Chapter 8: Managing Other People's Emotions 115
Part 3: Taking Emotional Intelligence to Work 131
Chapter 9: Dealing with Difficult Workplace Situations 133
Chapter 10: Succeeding Through Emotional Intelligence 149
Chapter 11: Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader 173
Chapter 12: Creating an Emotionally Intelligent Workplace 191
Chapter 13: Getting Through College with Emotional Intelligence 217
Part 4: Using Emotional Intelligence at Home 235
Chapter 14: Creating Emotionally Intelligent Relationships 237
Chapter 15: Parenting with Emotional Intelligence 257
Chapter 16: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child 275
Part 5: The Part of Tens 297
Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence 299
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Help Difficult People with Their Emotional Intelligence 311
Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Make the World a More Emotionally Intelligent Place 321
Index 329
About the author
Steven J. Stein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the founder and executive chair of MHS, a leading international behavior analytics company. He is the author of the first edition of
Emotional Intelligence For Dummies and
coauthor of
The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.
Summary
Get smart about your feelings to achieve success and happiness
Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is all about perceiving, using, understanding, managing, and handling your emotions and those of others. Develop crucial emotional skills that will help you in your career and in your personal life with Emotional Intelligence For Dummies. Learn to manage your emotions, uncover the power of empathy, and build meaningful relationships. Raise emotionally intelligent kids, become a better leader at work, and land the job you want. Let Dummies be your guide to living your best life!
* Gain emotional awareness that you can use in the workplace and at home
* Engage in practical exercises to develop your emotional intelligence skills
* Apply emotional intelligence in parenting children and teenagers
* Reduce stress and realize greater personal happiness with a higher EQ
This new edition incorporates the latest research on emotional intelligence, the new EQ-i 2.0(r) model, and updated exercises. Anyone who wants to get a grip on their emotions and seek success in life will benefit from this fun and practical guide.
