Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is the actionable, practical version of Daniel Goleman’s brilliant book, Emotional Intelligence. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves created 2.0 with one central focus: to increase the reader’s emotional intelligence. The book is organized around the four elements of personal and social competence. Therein lies 66 practical strategies to improve competence in four areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
This book provides the reader with a code to take an emotional intelligence appraisal through Talent Smart. Talent Smart scores each area of competence from 1-99 and provides actionable strategies with a lower score. The test is meant to be taken before you read the book and should be re-evaluated after reading. Once again, this book is a practical handbook focused on increasing your emotional intelligence, and as such, the reader ought to examine a handful of practical strategies to implement in daily living.
It is a tough world we are dealing with and the concept of emotional intelligence is nothing new to us. But in their book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, authors Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves present a step-by-step programme that will help readers use effectively their emotional intelligence and enjoy the fruits of consistent performance and ultimately succeed in achieving their goals.
The book highlights the four core emotional intelligence skills which are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management.
In order to exceed one’s goals one not only has to identify one’s EQ skills but must also learn to develop these skills into strengths. Keeping this purpose in mind, the authors have focussed on how these four core skills can be achieved and strengthened.
They have offered strategies for self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. The strategies are full of insights and are straightforward. A daily practice of these strategies will help people respond effectively to their emotions. They equip a person to overcome the daily obstacles and help bring about a positive change in life.
Lastly, man is incomplete without relationships. and so the strategies for relationship management are sure to deepen the connections people already have and also help critical relationships work.
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