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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

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By: Emília M. Ludovino

Overview of this book

This book will help you discover your emotional quotient (EQ) through practices and techniques that are used by the most successful IT people in the world. It will make you familiar with the core skills of Emotional Intelligence, such as understanding the role that emotions play in life, especially in the workplace. You will learn to identify the factors that make your behavior consistent, not just to other employees, but to yourself. This includes recognizing, harnessing, predicting, fostering, valuing, soothing, increasing, decreasing, managing, shifting, influencing or turning around emotions and integrating accurate emotional information into decision-making, reasoning, problem solving, etc., because, emotions run business in a way that spreadsheets and logic cannot. When a deadline lurks, you’ll know the steps you need to take to keep calm and composed. You’ll find out how to meet the deadline, and not get bogged down by stress. We’ll explain these factors and techniques through real-life examples faced by IT employees and you’ll learn using the choices that they made. This book will give you a detailed analysis of the events and behavioral pattern of the employees during that time. This will help you improve your own EQ to the extent that you don’t just survive, but thrive in a competitive IT industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Bibliography

The 3D leadership of the future


When I mention that the leader of the future needs to be a 3D leader, it is because you need to develop three areas of yourself and, therefore, of your leadership style. You need to start to develop a resilient and balanced SELF (self-awareness and self-management), you need to develop your understanding of others and build relationships and partnerships with others, thus you need to develop your social awareness, and finally, you need to develop your social skills as a great successful leader is the one that is always in the service of his organization and the world at large. We will learn about each of these parts and how to enhance each of them and make this triad of development work as a propeller.

Each part is connected to the other and working on the right balance between these three parts of this propeller will propel you higher and higher, creating a rippling effect that makes people follow you and role model you as a leader and human being.

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