Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World: Workbook for Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Skills

A Journey to Greater Emotional Intelligence

The information, activities, and assignments in Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World: Workbook for Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Skills will lead you on a journey to discover answers to your questions, satisfy your curiosity, and assist you in building your skills for greater personal satisfaction and success in your relationships at home, in the workplace, and in the wider world.

This step-by-step workbook is a guide for individuals and teams in learning how to become more self-aware, improve interpersonal relationships, manage strong emotions, and build personal resilience.

The workbook includes:

• An overview of Emotional Intelligence
• A 30-item assessment of Emotional Intelligence skills
• Scenarios to illustrate each of five dimensions of Emotional Intelligence
• Exercises and activities for experiential learning
• Over fifty practical, easy-to-implement techniques to enhance EI skills
• Action Plan guide to chart a path toward greater well-being and connection with others

What you'll learn:

• Become more aware of the role that emotions play in everyday experience, in both the personal and professional aspects of your life
• Be better able to identify your own emotions and plan how to manage them
• Learn techniques to become more adept at reading emotional cues in others to build productive teams and support networks
• Be more able to positively influence others by changing the way you interact with them
• Become more aware of the importance of building and maintaining your resilience despite the stresses that are part of any workplace and an inevitable aspect of all our lives
• Connect EI skills to the development of self-compassion, compassion for others, and global compassion
• Create an action plan for improving your own EI skills

Barbara A. Kerr, PhD Barbara is the owner of Emotional Intelligence Insights, which offers online courses in Emotional Intelligence for leaders and others in the workplace. This book developed from an online course, Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World, offered by the Compassion Education Institute under the sponsorship of the Charter for Compassion. She has also created a computer-based game for teams, Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World, published by HRDQ. In addition to earning her doctorate in English, Barbara has completed a post-graduate training course as a Master Certified Executive Coach and is a certified administrator of the EQ-i, an emotional intelligence inventory, as well as a number of other assessments to assist individuals, teams, and organizations in moving forward to fulfill their vision. She is also the author of Letters to My Husband's Analyst, Read All Your Life: A Subject Guide to Fiction and co-author of You Can Choose Your Own Life with psychologist Barry Sommer.