Change Your Life With Emotional Intelligence

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Boost emotional awareness in any part of your life
Change Your Life with Emotional Intelligence takes Daniel Goleman's revolutionary psychological theory and transforms it into practical self-help for you to boost emotional awareness in any part of your life. It introduces you to the principles of EI, explaining why the qualities of assertiveness, perception, motivation etc really matter if you want to live a fulfilled and successful life. The book takes an applied approach, encouraging you first to understand your own emotional identity, then to develop life skills like developing a sense of responsibility, overcoming anger and being more assertive. It will help you to use these skills to transform relationships with those around you, either in the workplace or in personal relationships and will even offer insight into how to help your children develop emotional intelligence. It is full of interactive exercises, top tips and and motivational quotes and offers plenty of further resources.


Change Your Life With Emotional Intelligence includes:

Part one - Understanding emotional intelligence
Chapter 1: Emotional intelligence: a first look
Chapter 2: Why is emotional intelligence so important?

Part two - Emotional intelligence and you: becoming personally competent
Chapter 3: How do you see yourself
Chapter 4: Thinking straight
Chapter 5: Developing your personal core values
Chapter 6: Emotional intelligence and resilience
Chapter 7: Using emotional intelligence to defeat anger

Part three - Emotional intelligence and others
Chapter 8: Social responsibility
Chapter 9: Developing communication skills
Chapter 10: Emotional intelligence in the workplace
Chapter 11: Emotional intelligence within an intimate relationship
Chapter 12: Developing emotionally intelligent children


Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:

Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject.

Five things to remember
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Christine Wilding is a Chartered MCIPD human resource practitioner and a BACP accredited and UKRC registered psychotherapist. She is a member of the BABCP, with post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She works as a CBT therapist in a private psychiatric clinic and as a therapist and life coach in private practice. She also works with professional clients as a coach, therapist, and as a motivational and inter-personal skills trainer.