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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
9
Bibliography

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned that an organization also has emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence in an organization needs to be role-modeled by the leaders, whether they are situational leaders or top-of-the-ladder leaders. Also, if you want to build an emotionally intelligent organization, you need to have a vision, mission, values and purpose that attract emotional intelligent collaborators.

How can we assess the level of emotional intelligence in the organization? And, how can we develop and build an emotionally intelligent organization?

We have learned that an organization operates in three dimensions. The first dimension is where the organization is itself with its Vision, Mission, Values, and Principles. The second dimension is the relationships with sentient beings that make the business grow: its people, founders, stakeholders, employees, and so on. The third dimension is where the relationship is with its customers, clients, partners, competitors, and society...