How To Improve your Emotional Intelligence – A step by step guide

Why is improving your Emotional Intelligence (EI) necessary?

It's important now more than ever to know how to Improve your Emotional Intelligence because it is a tool that is needed the world over to get ahead in life. Some of the situations where it is needed include:

1. In our relationships – Emotionally intelligent people tend to have better social skills and enjoy better interpersonal relationships.
2. In leadership – Leaders need to have the ability to manage their emotions and that of the people they lead. Emotional Intelligence is what helps you successfully coach teams, manage stress, deliver feedback, and collaborate with others.
3. In schooling – Research shows that when students are in an environment where they and their peers have developed emotional intelligence, they see higher levels of engagement and have better classroom leadership and organization. Additionally, they experience less bullying, manage test anxiety better and have higher academic achievement. It also helps foster creativity and build stronger interpersonal relationships.
4. In the workplace – Research has also shown that people often perform their worst when they feel unproductive feelings. Feelings such as feeling overly worried and frustrated, concerned and stressed, inadequate and fearful. Training helps people develop emotionally intelligent workplace behaviours.

Some careers such as Customer Service and Sales also demand high Emotional Intelligence as a requirement.

So how would you know if you need to improve emotional intelligence ? How would you even know how emotionally intelligent you are?

The process of how to Improve Emotional Intelligence is as follows:

1. Schedule a consultation with our Certified EI Coach to find out your level of understanding of EI. Additionally, we will seek to discover your current Emotional Intelligence rating and also gaps that you would want to address. 
2. Undertake our world renown GENOS Emotional intelligence assessment test.
3. Thereafter, our Emotional Intelligence Coach will debrief you on the results of the assessment report (interpretation).  This debrief involves the coach highlighting your areas of strength and those that need further development.
4. Emotional Intelligence Training: Our Emotional Intelligence coach takes you through our E.I training program that shall seek to address the identified development areas (weak spots). This is by equipping you with knowledge and skillsets to help you conquer them.
5. Follow up consultations: You shall be scheduled for follow up consultations to discuss your progress and solutions to challenges you may have faced after training. These follow up sessions will help you with accountability and will encourage you to take timely action thus effectively improving your EI over time.

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