Topic 2 - Understanding Self and Others Flashcards
Emotional Intelligence
Capacity for understanding our own feelings and feelings of others for motivating ourselves and managing emotions effectively in relationships
4 Domains of Emotional Intelligence
Self - Awareness
Self Management - handling emotions
Empathy
Putting all these together
Two Categories of the emotional competence framework
Personal and Social Competence
Personal Competence
Self Awareness and Self Management
Social Competence
Social Awareness and Relationship Management
Order of the Emotional Competence Framework
Self Awareness > Self Management + Social Awareness > Relationship Management
Benefits of Developing EQ
More like to succeed in personal and professional relationships
Higher EQ = Higher personal self-satisfaction and self-confidence
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses = superior performance
Self Awareness
is the ability to recognise and understand your moods and emotions as well as their effect on others
Self Management
Passion beyond on money or status
To think before acting
Social Awareness
Ability to understand the emotional makeup of others
Treating people in accordance to emotional reactions
Relationship Management
Proficiency in managing relationship
Building common ground and buil rapport
Blind Spots
Aspects of yourself that others are aware of but you are not
How to Improve our EQ
Observe how to react to people
Be open and accepting of others needs
Continualy self-evaluate yourself
Examine how we react to stressful situations
Take Responsibility
Examine how our actions will affect others
Social Styles
Patterns of Behaviour that make us us more like some than others
They are predictable patterns of actions that others can observe and agree upon for describing ones behaviour
Social Styles refers to surface behaviour
A persons observable behaviour
Can be seen or heard
Not the reason or rationale behind actions
Why does social styles matter
Understand how others view your behaviour
Understand your relationships
Develop insights into your behavioural strengths and weaknesses
Reliably assess another persons behaviour
Develop way of communicating
Dimensions of Social Styles
Assertiveness (Dominance) (Ask or Tell)
Responsivness (Sociability) (Controlled or Emotive)
4 Social Styles
Analytical
Driver
Amiable
Expressive
Analytical
Analyticals are concerned with being organized, having all the facts and being careful before taking action. They need to be accurate, precise, orderly and methodical. They conform to standard operating procedures, organizational rules and historical ways of doing things. They typically have slower reaction times and work more carefully than Drivers. They are perceived as serious, industrious, persistent and exacting.
The Driver.
Drivers are action- and goal-oriented, strive for results and react quickly. They are decisive, independent, disciplined, practical and efficient. They typically use facts and data, speak and act quickly, lean forward, point and make direct eye contact. Their body posture is often rigid and they have controlled facial expressions.