Emotional Intelligence : Achieving Academic and Career Success

Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence is a self-directed learning program to help you identify, understand, learn, and practice emotional skills that are essential to your academic and career success. The purpose of this book is not to lecture you. It is written and designed to assist you in discovering within yourself the skills that you can develop and use to achieve excellence in your life and career.

As someone embarking on an important part of your life, you are the most valuable resource in our society. Our goal is to share information, learning processes, and skills that will guide you in successfully managing the transitions from school to college to career. The learned ability of emotional intelligence is the key to academic success and career excellence. Personal excellence is a self-defined and self-directed process that is unique to each person. As you explore, develop, and learn to apply emotional intelligence skills, remember that emotional learning is an ongoing and continuing process that will always be important to your personal happiness, significant relationships, academic achievement, and career success.

For courses in Student Success, Career Development, or Foundation Courses in a variety of fields (Education, Business, Human Development, Management, Psychology, Leadership, Student Development, Counseling, Transition Programs).

This supplemental text uses an engaging, hands-on style interwoven with numerous visuals. It presents a research/education-based, practical approach to learning and using emotionally intelligent behavior to improve academic and career success. Throughout, students work their way step-by-step through 13 specific emotional intelligence skill lessons, using their own frames of reference to personalize and prioritize skill development.

Features :

• A research-based positive assessment that results in A Profile of Emotional Skills.
• Shows students that “success” factors are intentional habits developed through learning emotional skills and behaviors.
• The key emotional skills and competencies—Directly related to emotional intelligence.
• Provides a learner-centered basis for identifying and developing priority skills to improve academic and career achievement. Strategies, programs, and resources available in every college or university can easily be linked to help students succeed.
• The Emotional Learning System—A structured self-directed experiential system of learning that demystifies the contributions of the emotional mind.
• Makes emotional behavior understandable. Gives students and instructors an approach to discuss and learn personal and emotional skills critical to high levels of academic and career success.
• Personal learning styles—As a way to enhance emotional intelligence skill development.
• Gives students and instructors creative ideas and strategies on how to develop emotional intelligence skills through Auditory (Self Directed Coaching), Visual (Active Imagination), and Kinesthetic (Emotional Mentoring) learning styles.
• A systematic learning process—Consisting of five, sequential, building-block steps of Explore, Identify, Understand, Improve, and Apply/Model to guide the development of emotional intelligence skills.
• A practical systematic approach helps students understand the impact of everyday experience, experiential learning, and self-directed strategies. Helps reinforce learning via practice and rehearsal by focusing on one skill lesson that builds toward the next skill lesson.
• An education-based model of emotional intelligence—Organized around thirteen specific skills and four skill sets or principles of emotional intelligence.
• Allows students and instructors to see and examine the relationship and importance of Interpersonal, Personal Leadership, Self Management, and Intrapersonal Skills to academic and career excellence.
• A research- and skills-based model—Helps students understand that high levels of achievement and personal standards of excellence are self defined and self directed.
• Helps students identify contributions of the emotional mind and presents a skills process that develops harmony in the dimensions of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

1. Your Emotional Mind.
2. Developing an Emotionally Healthy Mind.
3. Interpersonal Skills.
4. Leadership Skills.
5. Self-Management Skills.
6. Intrapersonal Skills.
7. Self-Renewal and Personal Excellence.