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Introduction to Emotional Intelligence - Part II
June 27, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: People Issues
Introduction to Emotional Intelligence - Part II (#2 in the series Introduction to Emotional Intelligence)
By Phil de Kock
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn’t met me yet.” -Rodney Dangerfield
The Skills of the Emotionally Intelligent Individual:
The emotionally intelligent person is usually very competent in the following areas:
- Being self aware, without being egotistical;
- Having the ability to manage their own emotions (thus, knowing how to moderate emotions and targeting it appropriately to deal with life’s challenges);
- Having a positive self image and self motivation;
- Having social skills, that includes social intelligence and the ability to build sustainable and healthy relationships with other people.
An inability in one or more of the above areas lead to emotional instability and turbulence that often manifest in broken relationships, anger and frustration and a lack of impulse control. The good news is that one can work these aspects and grow thereby becoming more competent and also successful in dealing with life’s challenges.
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” - James Thurber
Phil de Kock is an organization and management consultant with a career span of more than 20 years in several disciplines, including finance and admin, quality, project management as well as human and organization development.
His career development from a very junior level as a finance cashier to managing partner of a medium sized consulting firm is backed by sound growth and development at an academic level. Philip consequently has obtained a masters degree in people and organization development and is currently reading for his PhD. He is the co author of several publications and received awards for his post graduate academic achievements.
In addition to being visiting lecturer in project management he also trained more than 250 students in the relevant discipline during 2006/7. In addition, he published about and presented public courses dealing with ROI of Training, HR Scorecards, and Metrics as well as Job and Competency Profiling.
He consulted to various companies, including Namdeb (De Beers Namibia), Deb Marine, Anglo Base Metals (Skorpion Zinc) as well as public sector organization such as the Health Professions and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council. His most recent work include lecturing on project management, leadership and Human Resources Management at the institutions that include the Centre for Learning, Training and Development (WITS University), Varsity College (ADVTECH Group Ltd) and Global Business School.
Phil runs a professional project management blog: Project Management For The Rest of Us.
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