After learning about each of the five emotional intelligence competencies, you should have a much better idea of what it means to understand your emotions, and how that understanding affects your work. So, how can you improve your emotional intelligence? That's what we'll cover here. We'll discuss putting the five competencies into practice and taking an EIQ inventory to measure your emotional intelligence growth.

Having a solid understanding of emotions, be it our own emotions or the emotions of others, helps us to be better people, particularly in the workplace. When we develop and use our emotional intelligence, it helps us reduce stress, prevent conflict, and develop better work relationships, resulting in higher quality work and productivity. In this course, we'll talk about the five competencies that make up emotional intelligence, and we'll define the term EIQ, or emotional intelligence quotient.

How well do you know yourself? We've defined self-awareness as the ability to accurately sense and identify your own feelings. It's the foundation that supports all the other emotional intelligence competencies. Here, we'll discuss how to develop your self-awareness. We'll also introduce the self-awareness triangle, which helps you identify how you see yourself, how comfortable you are with being who you are, and what motivates you. We'll also talk about the importance of measuring your self-awareness.

Your emotions will always be there, and the challenge is learning to manage the way you respond to them. That's what self-regulation is; it's managing your responses to emotions by understanding them and using that understanding to direct your behavior. It helps you act intentionally, rather than reactively. In this course, we'll talk about how to develop this skill of self-regulation and why it's important.

Even when you're familiar with your emotions, being productive and positive can be a real challenge. That's why we use self-motivation as a tool to get ourselves on the right track. Within emotional intelligence, self-motivation is how we find purpose and direct the power of our emotions toward a specific task or goal. In this course, we'll talk about the two types of motivators, go over how to strengthen your self-motivation, and discuss the search for things that inspire you.

The first three competencies of emotional intelligence have been focused on you and your emotions. Now it's time to shift gears and look at how we deal with the emotions of others. We call it empathy, and it has a lot to do with social awareness. In this course, we'll define empathy and discuss how to identify the emotions of others. We'll also go over some helpful tips on developing empathy, which is an essential tool in demonstrating high emotional intelligence.

Mastering the abilities of the first four competencies paves the way for attaining greater relationship skills. Effective relationships are about successfully interacting with people, managing your emotions, and helping others manage their emotions. In this course, we'll talk about the importance of effective relationships and how to develop the relationships you already have. We'll go over dealing with peoples' differences, analyzing your current relationships, and understanding what you can do to make those relationships stronger.

DISC can help you better understand the emotions of both yourself and other people. This allows you to anticipate and avoid bad situations, while setting yourself up for success, knowing what works better for you. In this course, we're going to talk about DISC personality styles and how you can use them to improve your emotional intelligence. Typically, you would complete a full DISC questionnaire, and the result would give you your DISC profile, describing how you behave in most situations. Rather than going through the whole questionnaire, we're going to walk through each of the four DISC styles and how they relate to emotional intelligence.

In this course, we'll discuss the basic D characteristics and what you can expect in managing a High D. We'll also go over how to lead them, so that you're getting the most out of your D team members. The goal of this program is to help you modify your style so you can lead a High D person successfully. Notice that we say to modify YOUR style. You're not going to be able to get them to change. You have to change to lead them.

In this course, we'll discuss the basic I characteristics and what you can expect in managing a High I. We'll also go over how to lead them, so that you're getting the most out of your I team members. The goal of this program is to help you modify your style so you can lead a High I person successfully. Notice we say to modify YOUR style. You're not going to be able to get them to change. You have to change to lead them.

In this course, we'll discuss the basic S characteristics and what you can expect in managing a High S. We'll also go over how to lead them, so that you're getting the most out of your S team members. The goal of this program is to help you modify your style so you can lead a High S person successfully. Notice that we say to modify YOUR style. You're not going to be able to get them to change. You have to change to lead them.

In this course, we'll discuss the basic C characteristics and what you can expect in managing a High C. We'll also go over how to lead them, so that you're getting the most out of your C team members. The goal of this program is to help you modify your style so you can lead a High C person successfully. Notice we say to modify YOUR style. You're not going to be able to get them to change. You have to change to lead them.

When you're selling to someone, especially someone with decision-making power, you need to understand their value set, and their value set varies by personality type. In this course, we talk about how you can sell to a High D.

To sell to any customer, you have to meet their unmet need. So the objective of this program is to learn how High I customers behave, what their needs are, and how you can better sell to them.

When selling to a High S, your goal is the same as when selling to anyone, and that is to meet their unmet need. Here, we'll talk about the needs of a High S and how you can better sell to them.

The objective of this program is pretty simple: High C customers are different than other customers, and when you sell to them, your approach has to be different, too. Here's how you can meet the unmet needs of a High C to better sell to them.