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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 functional brains


Understanding the basic neuroscience of how our brain works helps to faster understand and develop the skills of emotional intelligence. For this reason, we are going to look to the brain model formulated in 1966, by the neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean - the triune brain. Although, this model is a highly simplified explanation of brain activity and organization, it provides an easy-to-understand approximation of the hierarchy of the brain functions.

In 1990, in his book The Triune Brain in Evolution--MacLean look to the evolutionary theory to describe the brain in terms of three distinct structures that emerged during the evolution of the human body. The primitive brain was the first brain layer to emerge, followed by the emotional brain (limbic system) and the rational brain (cerebrum). The following figure shows us the structure of the triune brain:

The triune brain

The primitive brain

The primitive brain, also known as the reptilian brain was the first one to emerge...