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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

5 (1)
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

Social skills


Social skills, also known as interpersonal skills or people skills, are the skills that we as sociable creatures developed to communicate and interact with each other. And to convey our messages, thoughts and feelings to each other, we use verbal language and non-verbal language such as gestures, cues, body language, and our personal appearance. Social skills help boost productivity, improve relationships, and increase your general quality of life.

What are social skills?

Social skills mean the ability to ethically manage others' emotions using influence.

A person with great social skills is extremely useful in any workplace, as usually they are the influencers, the leaders, and the ones focused in helping others and the organization. They are easy to talk to and wonderful listeners. Therefore, they are the peace makers, resolving disputes, building bonds, and catalyzing change.

Core of social skills

To master the competence of social skills, you need to master seven skills to manage...