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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

Strategies to better manage extroverts and introverts


One of the fundamental differences between extroverts and introverts, in the workplace, is that while introverts think inside their heads, extroverts think out loud. So, while extroverts are talking, they can be working hard to sift through their ideas, to form their opinions and to clarify their thinking. However, the amount of talking involved, and the lack of initial clarity, may annoy other people. What a contrast with introverts who might think quietly to themselves and may leave us feeling frustrated because we don't know what they are thinking. And all the talking that makes the extrovert feel energized, stimulated, and enthusiastic, is draining for introverts. Introverts can also feel that extroverts are wasting their time and feel frustrated, an emotional reaction that may be unhelpful in building a productive working relationship. Extroverts in thinking out loud, may leave people feeling that they cannot be trusted, because...