What characteristics or competencies does it take to have a successful career? To be a leader?

What transforms the perpetually perplexed into perennial performers?

How Important is IQ? The percentage of career success explained by IQ is at most 25%, perhaps as little as 4%

Verbal - the ability to use words Visual - the ability to see things in your mind Physical - the ability to use your body well Musical - the ability to understand and use music Mathematical & logical - the ability to apply logic to systems and numbers Introspective - the ability to understand thoughts and feelings in yourself Interpersonal - the ability to relate well to others, people smarts From Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind The Seven Intelligences

When I say the word “emotions”, how do you react? What words come to mind? What about terms like “instinct”? “Intuition”? “Gut Feeling”? “Hunch”?

Emotional Intelligence

Let me read you a story … “The Statue that Didn’t Look Right” From Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, 2005

The Amygdala Where emotional reactions originate

Rational thought occurs in the neocortex, the thin layers that enfold the top of the brain Amygdala is much deeper –ring the brain stem atop the spinal cord

From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 1995, p. 19

Brain stores different information in different areas: memory, sight & sounds, smells, etc. Emotions an experience evokes are stored in the amygdala

From Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman, Bantam, 1995, p. 19

Whenever we have a preference of any kind or a compelling sense about something, that is a message from the amygdala. (p. 51) Via the amygdala’s related circuitry, particularly nerve pathways that run into the viscera, we can have a somatic response -- literally, a “gut feeling” -- to the choices we face.

Emotional Learning System Step A Self-Assessment –Explore Step B Self-Awareness –Identify Step C Self-Knowledge –Understand Step D Self-Development –Learn Step E Self-Improvement –Apply & Model From Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence, by Darwin B. Nelson & Gary R. Low, Prentice Hall, 2003 p. xv

From Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence, by Darwin B. Nelson & Gary R. Low, Prentice Hall, 2003 p. 15

From Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence, by Darwin B. Nelson & Gary R. Low, Prentice Hall, 2003 p. 17

Misconceptions about EI Emotional intelligence does not mean merely “being nice” EI does not mean giving free reign to feelings -- “letting it all hang out” Women are not “smarter than men when it comes to EI Our level of EI is not fixed genetically, nor does it develop in early childhood