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Home > Resources > Published E-Zines > Published in 2007 > Leadership E-Zines > May 2007 - Leading with Emotional Intelligence
Leading with Emotional Intelligence E-Zine - Issue No. 14/ May 2007
Dear Reader,
A few weeks ago, I shared some perhaps rather unusual thoughts around the topic of work-life-balance. The feedback was also rather unusually strong, so it seems I hit a nerve with some of you (click here to read).
Consequently, I decided to write an article on this topic which might get published in South China Morning Post, largest English newspaper in Hong Kong. I'll keep you posted.
Effective stress management is obviously another important factor in achieving a high level of well-being. Sebastien's article will show you how you can reduce your stress through developing your Emotional Intelligence.
Enjoy!
Let's keep progressing!
Charlie Lang
Executive Coach and Founder of Progress-U Ltd.
Author of The Groupness Factor
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Emotional Intelligence for Managers
Inspire and engage your people
Consider joining Progress-U's upcoming public program on EQ
in Hong Kong: on July 05, 2007 - click here for details
"Excellent program for those who are looking for new ideas both for self-management and staff motivation."
Managing Director, Micro-tech Asia Ltd.
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Stressing Emotions
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by Sebastien Henry
 A well known benefit of developing high Emotional Intelligence, especially for managers, is the greater ability to engage and motivate the people they work with.
Another less well known benefit of having great EQ is it can help in effective stress management, or in other words, to bring our stress to a comfortable level. This is the goal of many managers who feel that they are facing too much stress at work.
But how can Emotional Intelligence help in stress management?
There are three ways.
1. Our emotions are good indicators of our stress level. If we are aware of our own emotions, we can identify the signs of unusually high stress earlier. Then we can take steps to relax or to control our emotions, and avoid further stress.
For example, getting angry ten times in one single day at our team members, peers, or other people we interact with is most likely not a sign that they have suddenly become more annoying or incapable. It is more likely to be a sign that our level of stress has increased, and that our tolerance for anything that doesn’t go our way has decreased.
2. Self-management, the second dimension of Emotional Intelligence, also helps decrease our stress. Self-management is our ability to prevent the waves of our negative emotions from rising too high. An example of self-management is keeping our sadness or anger from reaching an intensity when we can not function and work normally, and when it can even be painful.
Such high emotional waves further escalates stress in two ways.
First, stress is amplified by the feeling that we are “losing control”. And then it can be accompanied by guilt…and even more stress.
Secondly, decisions we make during these emotional waves are usually not well-thought and usually bring us more trouble and more stress. For example, decisions we make during an episode of anger are can be expected to result to extra work to repair “collateral damages”.
3. Social awareness, the third dimension of Emotional Intelligence decreases stress by lessening interpersonal conflicts in the workplace. One serious conflict with one of our team members or peers can eat up a tremendous amount of our energy and result to a lot of stress.
How exactly does better social awareness lead to less conflicts? Social awareness is the ability to recognize emotions in other people, and to handle them resourcefully. In situations when conflicts can easily arise, this skill is particularly useful. By identifying the emotions in our counterpart and then acknowledging these emotions, we can prevent a disagreement from turning into an open personal conflict.
As a conclusion, if you are feeling that you are too stressed, I encourage you to look at how you could develop your Emotional Intelligence further.
There are several other ways to bring your level of stress down, like working on your time management or the way you delegate, or using effective relaxation techniques. But improving your Emotional Intelligence is a way you can count on.
Feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss the content of this article. I am passionate about this issue and always enjoy sharing views and ideas.
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 Sebastien Henry is Progress-U’s expert for Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Stress Management. He works with executives who want to:
- avoid feeling exhausted and uprooted as their career takes them to the top;
- become more inspiring leaders by developing their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) at work; and, as a consequence
- be able to motivate their people more and retain the best.
Having worked in an Asia-Pacific regional position at a multinational company, Sebastien has experimented extensively on how to develop Emotional Intelligence in his daily work life. He is currently writing a book on this topic. His articles on Emotional Intelligence in Leadership have been published in Human Resources and South China Morning Post.
He firmly believes in action, and the tools he uses and shares are derived from several areas of his life: his business experience as a corporate executive, of course, but also his intensive practice of mountaineering and rock climbing (7a on-sight and more than 50 alpine routes), his commitment to teach and coach prisoners, and his daily meditations for more than six years.
Positions of his clients as a one-to-one coach are: Asia/Pacific General Manager, Country General Manager, Department Head, etc.
Languages: Spoken and written Mandarin, Japanese, English, French (native language)
Credentials:
• MBA, BA in Psychology, BA in Philosophy
• Certified NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner
• Certified NLP Trainer (NLPU, USA)
• Certified Coach (ICC)
• More than 40 days of training with the Gestalt approach at the Paris School of Gestalt
• Certified Trainer of the "EQ Impact Learning" program (Talentsmart, USA)
Services offered: 1:1 Executive Coaching, Group Seminars and Workshops, Key Note Speeches |
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