Emotional Intelligence For Dummies

Get smart about your feelings to achieve success and happiness

Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is all about perceiving, using, understanding, managing, and handling your emotions and those of others. Develop crucial emotional skills that will help you in your career and in your personal life with Emotional Intelligence For Dummies. Learn to manage your emotions, uncover the power of empathy, and build meaningful relationships. Raise emotionally intelligent kids, become a better leader at work, and land the job you want. Let Dummies be your guide to living your best life!

• Gain emotional awareness that you can use in the workplace and at home
• Engage in practical exercises to develop your emotional intelligence skills
• Apply emotional intelligence in parenting children and teenagers
• Reduce stress and realize greater personal happiness with a higher EQ

This new edition incorporates the latest research on emotional intelligence, the new EQ-i 2.0^® model, and updated exercises. Anyone who wants to get a grip on their emotions and seek success in life will benefit from this fun and practical guide.

Steven J. Stein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the founder and executive chair of MHS, a leading international behavior analytics company. He is the author of the first edition of Emotional Intelligence For Dummies and coauthor of The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.

Introduction 1

Part 1: There’s a New Kind of Intelligence in Town 5

Chapter 1: Feeling Smart 7

Chapter 2: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence 21

Chapter 3: Finding Happiness 31

Part 2: The Essentials of Emotional Intelligence 41

Chapter 4: Investigating the Science Behind Emotional Intelligence 43

Chapter 5: Becoming More Aware of Your Emotions 61

Chapter 6: Managing Your Emotions 81

Chapter 7: Understanding Empathy 99

Chapter 8: Managing Other People’s Emotions 115

Part 3: Taking Emotional Intelligence to Work 131

Chapter 9: Dealing with Difficult Workplace Situations 133

Chapter 10: Succeeding Through Emotional Intelligence 149

Chapter 11: Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader 173

Chapter 12: Creating an Emotionally Intelligent Workplace 191

Chapter 13: Getting Through College with Emotional Intelligence 217

Part 4: Using Emotional Intelligence at Home 235

Chapter 14: Creating Emotionally Intelligent Relationships 237

Chapter 15: Parenting with Emotional Intelligence 257

Chapter 16: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child 275

Part 5: The Part of Tens 297

Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence 299

Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Help Difficult People with Their Emotional Intelligence 311

Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Make the World a More Emotionally Intelligent Place 321

Index 329

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