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Welcome to Issue 191. If you did not receive a previous issue, you may use the archive link below to view it now. The mission of "Marvelous Mondays" is to offer an inspirational thought, a practical exercise, some humor, or a simple tip to jump-start your week and to enhance your life, business, outlook or relationships.
Please feel free to forward "Marvelous Mondays" to others who will enjoy it.
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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In our last issue we discussed intellectual IQ. Today we will discuss emotional IQ. The term became popular in 1995 when Harvard Ph.D. Daniel Goleman wrote the book "Emotional Intelligence". Emotional intelligence is defined in the EQ-I2.0 Model (based on Ruven Bar-On) as "a set of emotional and social skills that collectively establish how well we:
- Perceive and express ourselves
- Develop and maintain social relationships
- Cope with challenges
- Use emotional information in an effective and meaningful way"
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THE VALUE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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Dr. Goleman's research concluded that skills such as empathy, self-awareness, and self-regulation can, together with our cognitive abilities, improve our workplace effectiveness, our leadership skills, our health, and our relationships.
We all know of persons (maybe even ourselves) who have been hired or promoted within a company or organization, or have been chosen as leaders in a religious group or elected to public office. The source of getting the job was the result of a sterling academic record and résumé. However this can turn out to be a terrible mismatch. Fortune 500 companies found that the traditional credentials and résumés were certainly no predictor of success. Now many Fortune 500 companies have adopted Dr. Goleman's conclusions and use some form of emotional IQ evaluation.
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CONNECTION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND HAPPINESS
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Webster's (1993) definition of happiness is "a state of well-being characterized by relative permanence by dominantly agreeable emotions ranging in value to mere contentment to a deep and intense joy for living, and by a natural desire for its continuation."
Happiness is a goal for each of us. The connection between happiness, as defined by Webster and emotional intelligence as described above, becomes clear and important.
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