From the course: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers (Blinkist Summary)
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Emotional intelligence can enhance your career
From the course: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers (Blinkist Summary)
Emotional intelligence can enhance your career
- [Presenter] Blink number one. Emotional intelligence can advance your career as a project manager. Have you ever felt like your workplace was stifling your emotions? If so, you certainly aren't alone. A lot of project managers deliberately try to create an emotion-free working environment. That, however, is a big mistake. Positive emotions, and even some negative ones, can actually help in the workplace. A bit of emotional intelligence can help lead a project to success. Emotional intelligence, a term popularized by Daniel Goleman's 1955 bestseller, "Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ," refers to our ability not only to identify emotions in ourselves and others, but to use those emotions to guide our behavior. For project managers, emotional intelligence should be geared towards improving work performance. Emotional intelligence is very powerful. In fact, one study of the relationship between…
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