Emotional Intelligence
Develop EI
Can EI be developed?
An early - and now recognized as a misguided view of the ability approach to EI - was that EI cannot be increased or with great difficulty. When people heard that they wondered why bother measuring it and employing it at all in a counseling or coaching environment (see, for example, Ackley, 2016)? However, this view has changed.
In fact, a meta-analysis of EI intervention studies noted that it is “easier to develop ability EI … than trait EI” (Hodzic et al. 2018, p. 145.). EI training, quality training, may improve these skills or, alternatively, learn compensatory or remedial strategies to make up for a lower level of ability.
EI TRAINING
We have delivered training sessions around the world for all sorts of audiences. Our hard skills approach works extremely well with the most skeptical and analytical of audiences. Contact us for examples and more information.
This book teaches you emotional intelligence skills to help you become a more emotionally intelligent educator.
With these skills you can create a more positive school culture and classroom climate, be a more effective educator and a better colleague. We address difficult challenges every educator faces and provide you with a set of Emotional Intelligence Blueprints to successfully address these challenges. We then teach you how to build your own Blueprint.
David (C) began this work in schools in 2001 (with Charles Wolfe) and he is a co-author of the RULER “anchors” training. David (A) is now CEO of The Urban Assembly charter school system. Lisa was instrumental in the development of this book.
This book teaches the four emotional intelligence skills to acquire accurate emotional data, leverage emotions to make better decisions, understand the underlying causes of emotions and manage emotions effectively.
We address a number of specific leadership challenges and provide you with a set of blueprints to successfully address these challenges using the four emotional intelligence skills. Learn how to Map Emotions, Match Emotions, understand the Meaning of Emotions and Move Emotions. This ability model of emotional intelligence is an intelligence and these are hard—not soft—skills.
People often ask "how can I develop my EI skills?" We wrote this workbook to provide clients and coaches with a series of concrete exercises to develop the hard skills of EI.
A great discussion with friends and colleagues about all things ability EI.
The EI Blueprint
The Blueprint appeared in our 2004 book. Here we explain a simplified Blueprint.