Emotional Intelligence Step 4 Social Skills – the Secret
Building successful relationships with people, particularly those at work, is far and away the most critical factor in a successful business career. Surveys of successful general managers continuously rank people skills above such factors as intelligence, vision, and ethics. As I have said before I am a big fan of the 7MTF/Humm-Wadsworth model of Temperament which defines our personality in terms of seven key components. While each of us has all seven emotional drives it is the strength of each.....
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Terrific clues to the core emotional drives of people are their favourite colours. As readers of this blog know I am a big fan of the 7MTF/Humm for understanding our core emotions. Chandler Macleod, one of Australia’s leading organisational psychologists, bought the rights to the Humm in the early 1960s and have since tested over 1 million people. In addition, the company has conducted follow-up interviews with over 100,000 of those tested. Over time they noticed that each of the seven compo.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence – Step 3 Social Awareness (Part 2)
In my last blog I described how to use TOPDOG which stands for Talk-Organisation-Position-Dress-Office-Gambit to work out the core emotional drives of someone’s personality and in particular the three clues of Organisation, Position and Gambit. Now I am going to discuss the other three clues: Talk, Dress, and Office based on the 7MTF/Humm model of core emotions. This is a simple framework you use when you first meet someone. First, talk. What a person says and how it is said are major clues .....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence – Step 3 Social Awareness (Part 1)
While self-awareness and self-management are important steps in developing Emotional Intelligence it is probably the final two steps of social awareness and social skills that are more important for success in life. How do you work out the core emotional drives of other people? How do you develop the social skills to make others more effective? Social Awareness or empathy is commonly defined as identifying with or experiencing of the feelings of another. Typical advice to people trying to imp.....
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