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?

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!