Tune up your EQ

Anthony Mersino asked 3 great questions in his comments on Sarah Fister Gale’s Beyond The Hype Article. It’s a must read if you want to understand the connection between EQ and successful projects.

Anthony’s first question was:

1) How do we determine where people are? (what is their current level of EQ).

Anthony’s second question was:

Based on where they are, how do we determine their EQ potential?

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Anthony Mersino’s pathway to improving his Emotional Intelligence is featured in Sarah Fister Gale’s Beyond The Hype Article. If you’ve not read it yet, I encourage you to read it. If you’ve read it already, a refresher would probably also help you :).

The article will help you decide whether EQ can help project managers to be successful.

Anthony asked 3 great questions in his comments to my
Beyond The Hype: New EQ and Project Management Article post. He asks:

1) How do we determine where people are? (what is the current level of EQ)

2) Based on where they are, how do we determine their EQ potential?

3) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the tools (training, coaching,books)?

I’ll answer Anthony’s questions one by one in a series of posts.

1) How do we determine where people are?

The best way

Ideally, organisations would do thorough emotional intelligence assessments of everyone attending a development programme beforehand. Read the rest of this entry »

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In this series, we read the stories of four people who sought to increase their EQ. In this post we meet Tyrone Small. Tyrone is a Junior Engineer. He resides in Jamaica. Read the rest of this entry »

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Time to act, or time to reflect?

How often in the hubbub of the every day life do you ask yourself whether what you’re doing makes sense?

We reward and value the ceaseless activity, yet we regard the time spent on reflection with disdain. We don’t say it explicitly, but we demonstrate our outlook by how we prioritise our time.

“I can’t think right now, I’m too busy”

4 Powerful questions from Ed Brenegar

Ed Brenegar over at the Leading Questions Blog poses the 4 Questions That Every Leader Must Ask.

What is our impact?
Who are we impacting?
What opportunities do we have now?
What problems have we created?

Right now, Ed has a great offer. Answer his 4 questions, email him your answers at ed@edbrenegar.com and he’ll give you his personalised feedback. It struck me as a fantastic way to
learn how to become more effective, so I seized the opportunity.

Ed gave me invaluable pointers to help me better understand the impact of my Emotional Intelligence work. For example, Ed stressed that it’s important to practice a skill with a view to
gaining progressive improvements in your effectiveness.

He argues that if you commit to this process you’ll create a life full of the impact that you desire. I agree with Ed.

I also strongly recommend this continual improvement method as the best means of continually improving your Emotional Intelligence.

How do you feel about taking time to reflect?

Does it distract you from urgent matters, or does it deliver a powerful return on the time and energy that you invest?

Take up ED Brenegar’s 4 Questions offer, write your own Leading Questions story and boost your effectiveness.

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Power 106 FM , a Jamaican based radio station that broadcasts around the world, has followed Emotional Intelligence closely. This 12 minute interview is between journalists Ronnie Thwaites, Ralston Hyman and myself on the Real Businessradio programme.

Listen To The World Cup Cricket Story, Part 1.

Do let me know what you think.

Additional Resources

Listen to The World Cup Cricket Story, Part 2

How To Build A World Cup Cricket Stadium With Emotional Intelligence (279kb) PDF format

Jamaican Builders Bat For Success At New World Cup Cricket Stadium Press Release(85kb) PDF format

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