Here are some facts I pulled out for a group I was doing emotional intelligence training with:
- Emotional Intelligence (EI) is 3 times more likely to predict career success than IQ
- American financial advisers who went through an emotional competence development programme had sales gains of 8% – 20%, significantly more than those who did not undergo the programme. – From Emotional Intelligence at Work – Daniel Goleman
- ‘A very clear relationship’ between a competency-based measures of emotional intelligence and British managers’ career advancement over a seven-year period – HIGGS, M. and DULEWICZ, V. (1999)
- Ten emotional competencies emerged as the distinguishing capabilities of successful teams in a German chemical company. – WOODRUFFE, C. (2001)
CIPD Emotional Intelligence viewpoint
The concept of emotional intelligence is useful because it draws attention to the following in particular:
- There are aspects of management, leadership and teamwork in which competencies owing their origin to emotional states are at least as important as technical abilities.
- Managing personal emotions and adapting them to circumstances, and understanding others’ emotions, is an important aspect of leadership and teamwork.
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George Anderson
Emotional Intelligence for anger management is
especially effect for “disruptive physicians” and civility training for Attorneys and high profile clients.
This is consistent with EQ finding relative to leadership and sales.