What Are the Really Essential Skills?
By Bob Moore, CMC, MCC, The Effectiveness Coach®
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What if there was one skill or competency that you absolutely must have to excel, would you want to know about it? That competency is Emotional Intelligence or EQ and it value increases dramatically with job complexity.
Research has shown that those with high EQ are 127 times more productive than those with low EQ. Through his research, Daniel Goleman has concluded that the key differentiator between star and average performers is EQ.
Can EQ be learned? Unlike one's level of IQ, which changes very little from childhood, emotional intelligence includes skills that can be learned at any age. Research agrees that people can be taught to better manage emotions.
However, most emotional intelligence programs have failed to deliver results in increasing an attendee's emotional intelligence. This is mostly due to their flawed methodology - significant, sustained EQ learning occurs over an extended period of time - not in a classroom, two-day seminar, or workshop. Ideally, it would be an extended learning process that also included the safety of a confidential mentor?
Consider that working adults in general have four primary developmental areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual, and emotional. We have gyms, libraries, schools, books, and places of worship to develop these, but where is "Life's Gym", where an adult can safely explore emotions to harness knowledge and wisdom to make better daily decisions?
Athletes are allowed to practice their skills in order to achieve peak performance. To truly achieve higher performance, let's allow corporate professionals to have this opportunity as well.
Enthusiastically,
Bob
Bob Moore, CMC®, President
Effectiveness, Inc/The Effectiveness Coach®
Aligning Human Capital with Strategic Objectives
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