The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book

Growing up in an atmosphere of anger to the point of physical abuse until the age of 14, you have to "relearn" how to relate on an emotionally healthy level. Although I have been married now for 21 years to a godly man who would give his life for me (twice the amount of time I lived in an abusive situation) I still stagger in saying & doing what is right (high EQ) when certain feelings surface. Travis Bradbury and Jean Greaves skillfully navigate emotions to put them into words-which can be a challenge for those of us who have seen violence as a method of communicating.

I’ve got soooo many highlights and notes. Great foundational information on EQ to give you in depth understanding to what EQ is and how EQ can be used to improve your decisions.

This book was great! It was very informative and I learned a lot about emotional intelligence! Would recommend to anyone!

If you are new to the world of emotional intelligence this is an excellent book to start with. It is straight forward and the concepts are easy to grasp. Good book to have in your EI library.

There is the only table in the book and you can't read it while using the Kindle version because the picture resolution is too weak. The link in the footnote doesn't work either. However, Julia West, author of the table, has the table on her website [...]

Great book to help improve yourself. Great tips on how to better communicate with others and what the barriers are for yourself.

Hardly anyone is new to the idea of emotions or controlling one's emotions, however the categorization the authors use of emotional intelligence is useful as a tool for analyzing one's strengths and weaknesses in using one's emotions. The categorization has as four parts: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. This is the biggest takeaway of the book. The rest of it is clarification or examples of what each category includes and how its important in personal situations. I have benefited from seeing people's behaviors through the lens of EQ. It helps explain not only my emotional strengths/weaknesses but also where other people have developed their emotional skills and where they are lacking. I only give it 3 stars because as useful as the categorization of emotional intelligence is (emotional intelligence really a misnomer, should be called emotional skill), there is no practical method for improving one's EQ provided by the book. The book itself is a quick read and doesn't go into much depth. Take the online assessment -- the questions themselves are useful in understanding what is considered high emotional intelligence. By the end, you'll know what EQ is, you'll know how to identify it, but in terms of improving your own EQ, this book leaves you to your own devices. Then again, knowing is half the battle. YMMV.

Great book on how grow your emotional intelligence. I believe this is the most important trait a person can have.

This is a must read book , couples would bennift greatly and so would managers , very life changing .

It is a good introduction to emotional inteligence for people (like me) who did not know what the term means. The book is easy to understand, you can read it quickly and it comes with an only emotional inteligence test for you to take.

Parfait ! Merci ! :)

This is very relevant to today. An easy read, I recommend taking the free test!

I was advised by colleagues and line manger that I had a gap within my interpersonal skills which would need to be resolved before I had a chance toadvance my career. Speaking to my HR function abouit this, I was advised that the issue lay wih my 'emotional itelegence' and that I should seek some coaching to improve this aspect of my personality. Part of this coaching included reading the EI Quickbook. The book comes with an online assessment tool plus further training to hone theEI skills which was quite invluable. The book itself uses tequneques based around real life situations. I found this method gave me the ability to match my weaknesses to the examples given thus helping me to change my processes to enhance my EI. A very good item to have in the toolbox. I am glad bought it, and find myself refering back to it as and when I notice a 'bad habbit' creaping in.