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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
9
Bibliography

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the core emotional intelligence competencies and the skills you as an IT professional need to have to master each of the competencies and tips to improve each one.

You have learned the ability of adequately perceiving and understanding your own emotions as they happen (self-awareness), which will help you be more confident, less stressed, less overwhelmed, accept feedback, and stop micromanaging.

You have learned the ability to express your own emotions in a safe, clear, effective, and respectful way (self-expression), which will help you to build quality relationships, better your employee engagement, decrease turnover, be liked, and appreciated.

You have learned the ability of effectively managing your own emotions and the impact they have on your decisions and behaviors (self-regulation), which help you to cultivate pleasant emotions, prevent conflicts, influence others, and build trustful, successful, and collaborative partnerships.

You have learned the...