You have all heard it’s not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you that makes you successful.
If you buy into this, then you will probably also agree that economic cycles are inevitable. What’s not inevitable is whether you have the emotional intelligence to succeed regardless of circumstances. We believe by developing and utilizing emotional intelligence quotient (EQ), more than intelligence quotient (IQ), you can position your team to make wins inevitable during the economic down-turn.
A relatively new area of psychological research, emotional intelligence is described by Salovey and Mayer (in their book by the same title) as “the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions.”
So what do you think about EQ? How are you managing your (and your team’s) EQ in 2009?
Are you attacking the marketplace or waiting to see what happens?
