Emotional intelligence
Summary: Emotional intelligence is our ability to understand and manage our own emotions as well as identify and respond effectively to the emotions of others. These free resources can help.
For individuals
Improving your emotional intelligence not only enhances your interpersonal interactions but also lays the foundation for more effective communication, stronger relationships, and in turn, increased overall well-being. Emotional intelligence self-assessment is a guide to enhancing skills like self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, and relationship management.
For leaders
Leaders who build their emotional intelligence skills are better equipped to foster positive work environments and stronger team relationships. Emotional intelligence for leaders helps with better understanding and managing your emotions, empathizing with others, and communicating with sensitivity.
Leaders play a crucial role in advancing organizational emotional intelligence by fostering a culture that values self-assessment, individual growth, evidence-based practices, and integrating emotional intelligence into leadership development.
Emotional articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation:
This free tool can help you improve your self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management.
Use the activities provided to improve emotional intelligence related to leading, managing or supporting employees.
Free activities to increase your ability to manage your reactions and control how you impact others. Building your emotional intelligence can help reduce stress.
These strategies benefit those who manage, support or lead employees and can help increase emotional intelligence in your organization. This can help with collaboration, decision-making, sales, recruitment and retention of talent.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage our own emotions as well as recognize and appropriately respond to the emotions of others.
This activity helps us understand our own emotional triggers in order to choose an effective response rather than react to the emotion.
When we recognize that all human behaviour is an attempt to meet a perceived or actual need, we can choose to look beyond the behaviour and become curious about the need someone’s trying to meet. Behaviours are like the tip of an iceberg – the larger submerged part is the need that drives the behaviour.
A leader’s guide for team-building activities that develop resilience, emotional intelligence and cohesion.
It’s rarely, if ever, helpful to worry. Learn fact from fiction when it comes to worry.
“You idiot!” You’d be offended if someone said this to you, but how often do you say it to yourself? Learn to make your self-talk more respectful.