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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

5 (1)
By: Emília M. Ludovino

Overview of this book

This book will help you discover your emotional quotient (EQ) through practices and techniques that are used by the most successful IT people in the world. It will make you familiar with the core skills of Emotional Intelligence, such as understanding the role that emotions play in life, especially in the workplace. You will learn to identify the factors that make your behavior consistent, not just to other employees, but to yourself. This includes recognizing, harnessing, predicting, fostering, valuing, soothing, increasing, decreasing, managing, shifting, influencing or turning around emotions and integrating accurate emotional information into decision-making, reasoning, problem solving, etc., because, emotions run business in a way that spreadsheets and logic cannot. When a deadline lurks, you’ll know the steps you need to take to keep calm and composed. You’ll find out how to meet the deadline, and not get bogged down by stress. We’ll explain these factors and techniques through real-life examples faced by IT employees and you’ll learn using the choices that they made. This book will give you a detailed analysis of the events and behavioral pattern of the employees during that time. This will help you improve your own EQ to the extent that you don’t just survive, but thrive in a competitive IT industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Bibliography

Chapter 8. Preventing Stressful Situations with Emotional Resilience

In this chapter, we will cover how to build emotional resilience to better cope with stress, anxiety, shame, guilt, depression, lack of support from family, friends, employers, the feeling of being overwhelmed, stressed out, depressed, and burnout. Emotional resilience, in the context of emotional intelligence, can help build and enhance new skills and abilities that help you to cope and even prevent some of these situations. It does not mean you will be free of anxiety, stress, or anger as these emotions can be useful. However, they can be frightening and overwhelming at times. Therefore, it is important to build good emotional resilience to help you in the moments you need it the most, to manage your emotional states. Therefore, we will learn about the five pillars of emotional resilience, listed as follows:

  • First pillar: Stay calm, cool, and collected
  • Second pillar: Control your emotions
  • Third pillar: Create positive emotions...