Emotional Intelligence: A Meta-Skill for 21st Century Leaders

Three Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence, the topic of this solo episode with Beverly Lewis will provoke you to think as well as provide tools and strategies for raising your EQ.

Ever worked with someone who made everyone’s day better – when they didn’t show up? 99% of people say they've had the misfortune to have a co-worker who was clueless that everyone in the office considered them difficult to work with.

Emotional Intelligence is a meta-skill for leaders in the 21^st century. This episode on how to raise your emotional intelligence through self-awareness addresses the fact that 95% of people claim to be self-aware when in reality, only 10-15% actually are.

Self-awareness is the will and skill to understand who we are, including our values, patterns of behavior, and our impact on others. It’s having a lens of understanding about how others see us.

You’ll hear about three ways to increase self-awareness that are intentional and practical. These tips conclude with a reminder that observing patterns in our own behavior is key to shifting into new thinking and acting. Ernest Hemingway said, “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another”. Many continue to try that strategy without success.

John Taylor’s words from decades ago challenge us to develop the gift of insight:

“The computer makes us fantastically more able to calculate and analyze.

It does not help us to meditate.

We have instruments to enable us to see everything from the nebulae to the neutron – everything except ourselves. We have immeasurably extended our gift of sight, but not of insight.

For that, we have the same equipment as the eighth-century prophets.

Potentially the same, but actually poorer, for while we have been busy extending one aspect of the knowing of telling self, we have allowed other aspects to atrophy.

We have built ourselves up into power transmitting stations but as receiving sets we are feeble.”

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