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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

A special word to prevent burnout


Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout is the outcome when you feel overwhelmed by work, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. You begin to lose motivation, interests as stress piles up. Most people are not aware that a burnout situation is more destructive to them that being overstressed. And a burnout is the outcome of being over-stressed for too long. Of course, to prevent a burnout situation first you need to know the symptoms of a burnout. But first let's learn the difference between stress and burnout:

First and foremost, burnout and stress are not the same thing, though burnout could be the outcome of a very stressful situation for too long time, without you taking care of yourself, like we have learnt in the five pillars of emotional resilience.

Stress, in general, denotes a sense of too much. Too many pressures, which demand too much of you physically,...