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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

The three dimensions in which the organization operates


As you would have noticed, the organization's emotional intelligence assessment covers three dimensions in which the organization operates. They are as follows:

  • The first dimension: The organization in itself with its vision, mission, values, and principles
  • The second dimension: The relationships with sentient beings that make the business grow: its people, founders, stakeholders, employees, and so on
  • The third dimension: The relationships with its customers, clients, partners, competitors, and society at large

These three dimensions work together as a big propeller, creating momentum and bringing your organization to the forefront of success.

The three dimensions in which the organization operates

The first dimension - the company

I like to call this dimension the soul of the company due to the fact that it is through its mission statement, vision statement, the definition of its mission, and the values, and principles that the organization...