EQ By the Numbers

There are many, many numbers on EQ and its effects on performance, productivity, employee engagement and much more.

The following numbers are from Daniel Goleman’s book Working with Emotional Intelligence.

Daniel Goleman’s analysis of 181 jobs in 121 organizations found that emotional competencies were the best differentiators between star performers and typical performers.

In top leadership positions over 85% of the difference in performance is due to emotional competence.

Emotional Intelligence Explained

You Decide Your EQ

The Hudson River airplane landing by Captain Sullenberger is a great demonstration of well-developed emotional intelligence.  Once the audio recordings of Captain “Sully” were made public, listeners have been stunned and amazed at the immense calm Sully demonstrated and the resoluteness with which he told air traffic control, “We’re going to be in the Hudson.”

Why was Captain Sullenberger so calm when other people in a life-or-death situation would be hysterical?

An Overview of Emotional Intelligence

The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves is an excellent quick read.  This book also comes with a free assessment as long as the book is new and someone hasn’t used it.

The book describes the difference of IQ from EQ.  Your IQ never changes and stays the same.  They have done studies and found that two people with the same IQ can have completely different levels of success.  Also your IQ is your ability to learn and it does not change over time.  On the other hand EQ can be developed even if you are not born with it.

Emotional Intelligence

“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” Max DePree

Emotional Intelligence

This is one of my favorite topics… Why? It changed my life! I was stressed out, over worked and a ton of other things before getting a bad review in the late 90’s.

I heard about Emotional Intelligence in 2000 when I stumbled upon Daniel Goleman’s book Working with Emotional Intelligence. I had been reading any book I could find that would help me be a better manager since I found out my staff was terrified of me. I read it and couldn’t believe it!!!! It was the missing link!