Product Description

• a new guide to 'EI' for all areas of your life, from personal awareness to social and personal relationships and professional development
• lots of interactive exercises and practical tips
• brings the advantages of this previously business-related skill to your social and personal life.

'teach yourself 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 their 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40272 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Worth reading
Good book. So much information that I had to read it twice and I still haven't taken it all in. The basic idea is awareness and management of your emotions and those of others. There are concepts here that everyone will find useful - all you need is a willingness to learn more about yourself. It can be scary at times to see the low level (or absence) of some of these principles in ourselves, but self-realisation is the first step towards improvement in any area.

It's not perfect. Some of the exercises are a bit vague and could benefit from an example. Also, there is a tendency to see things in
black and white with no middle ground. Certain things about the reader are assumed - family/friends who are willing to let you practice your new-found skills, various past experiences ready to be recalled. The last section is about using EI in the work place, in intimate relationships and with children - 3 areas that are not open to many people. And some of the sections are annoyingly short, but it is a small book.

However, I would recommend reading this book (at least once). We can all learn something from it.