An emotional intelligence training game, Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World is a computer-based management development training game for teams, employees, leaders, and managers to learn and practice emotional intelligence skills for better communication, leadership, decision making and interpersonal relationships.
Emotions are a part of our everyday lives, both at home and at work. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to comprehend your emotions and manage them effectively. Research shows that people who have a high level of emotional intelligence are stronger leaders, better decision makers, foster better relationships, and increase team efficiency in the workplace. It also suggests that EI is a more accurate predictor of success at work and in life than the more traditional IQ test.
The good news is that emotional intelligence is a skill that can be developed and improved. Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World is a new computer-based training game that offers a fun and interactive way to learn about – and practice – 5 core skills of emotional intelligence:
Awareness of Self,
Awareness of Others,Actions of Self,
Interactions with Others,
Resilience,
Learning Outcomes,
Increase knowledge about emotional intelligence,
Learn how emotional intelligence can influence success in the workplace and personal life.
Find out how to apply emotional intelligence skills in common, everyday situations.
Learn about strategies for developing emotional intelligence.
Interview with the Author
We recently interviewed product author Dr. Kerr, to get her thoughts and insights on the role of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace. Click here to read the interview.
For more information on how improving emotional intelligence can have a positive impact on business, download "Connecting Emotional Intelligence to Success in the Workplace" , written by Barbara A. Kerr, PhD, author of Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World.
Theory and Development
Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World provides skill. development learning in five core components of Emotional. Intelligence; Awareness of Self, Actions of the Self, Awareness of Others, Interaction with Others, Resilience.
Awareness of Self
The ability to identify emotions in yourself and to perceive the impact you have on others. Actions of Self
The ability to manage and express a range of emotions appropriately, thus maintaining your equilibrium even under stress.
Awareness of Others:The ability to identify and understand what others are feeling as expressed through their words, actions, facial expressions, and body language.
Interactions with Others
The ability to utilize awareness of others’ emotions to build relationships, teams, and support networks. Resilience
The ability to learn from mistakes, recover from setbacks, be optimistic, and maintain equilibrium despite life’s inevitable changes and challenges.
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Uses for the Game:
Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World offers multiple applications, including:
Skill development for employees and front-line managers.
Primer emotional intelligence for students in colleges and universities.
An introduction to emotional intelligence within an organization
A standalone team building activity.
A component of a team or leadership development initiative.
How it Works
Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World is an interactive computer-based team game built on the PowerPoint platform. Fast-paced challenges relating to the five dimensions of emotional intelligence make for exciting game play as teams of up to six players per computer work together on a group project. The goal is to earn enough points to complete a 30-piece puzzle by correctly responding to seven different types of challenges. Unexpected Life Events (ULEs) randomly intervene, which either add or subtract puzzle pieces from the project. The game ends when a team completes the puzzle project, or runs out of time. At the end of the game, players learn their performance statistics, including an Overall Emotional Intelligence Awareness Rating, a Team Performance Score, and an assessment of how frequently the individuals players choose to act independently or collaboratively.
Challenges include:
What Would You Do?: Multiple choice scenario-based challenge.
Picture This!: Identify the emotion displayed in an image.
Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence: Choose the appropriate activity that will enhance a particular dimension of Emotional Intelligence.
Survey Says: Identify the top answer in response to a survey question.
Decisions! Decisions!: Work as a team to reach a majority decision.
What am I Feeling?: Participants act out emotions for the rest of the team to identify.
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The Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EiSA) is training tool that promotes individual and organizational success. Designed for management development training, the EiSA measures adult emotional intelligence on five scales: Perceiving, Managing, Decision Making, Achieving, and Influencing. The EiSA can be used as a standalone training resource or powerful complement to address leadership development, team building, and communication effectiveness.
A new way of measuring the key indicator of success:
You’ve probably heard the buzz about emotional intelligence being a scientifically-proven predictor of potential, performance, and professional success. Those who are emotionally intelligent are able to manage their emotions to achieve goals, build relationships, and influence others. On an organizational level, this translates into better decisions, better teams, and better leaders. The EiSA combines a self-assessment with a workbook and workshop to quickly identify emotional intelligence levels and provide a framework for discussion and growth. From new hires to senior managers, this tool can help anyone develop their emotional intelligence and improve their performance. It’s more than a measure of potential and performance; it’s a tool for true personal development.
Learning Outcomes:
After taking the EiSA Self-Assessment in combination with the Participant Workbook and Workshop, individuals achieve greater awareness of their ability to manage and perceive emotions, and better understand the effects of their emotions on themselves and others. This knowledge opens the door to increased emotional and social functioning by directing one’s developmental efforts to the areas of greatest opportunity and potential for growth. Discover the major components of emotional intelligence.
Recognize the behaviors and characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person.
Identify areas where emotional intelligence skills can be applied
Evaluate personal strengths and growth opportunities,
Generate action steps to improve emotional intelligence and success.
Theory and Development
The EiSA was developed using a thorough test process to ensure its effectiveness as a tool for personal and professional growth. The EiSA derives its theoretical roots from the vast amount of EI literature and research in the EI and training communities. The EiSA measures and addresses emotional intelligence on 5 key scales:
Perceiving
The ability to accurately recognize, attend to, and understand emotion.
Managing
The ability to effectively manage, control, and express emotion.
Decision Making
The application of emotion to manage change and solve problems.
Achieving
The ability to generate the necessary emotions to self-motivate in the pursuit of realistic and meaningful objectives.
Influencing
The ability to recognize, manage, and evoke emotion within oneself and others to promote change.
Uses for the Assessment
The EiSA can be used as a standalone training instrument, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive program on emotional intelligence. The EiSA can be applied as:
An effective component in training programs on related topics such as leadership, communication, and team building.
An addition to any program that focuses on interpersonal skills.
A tool for developing leaders to address the five emotional intelligence factors that will enhance their effectiveness.
A discussion starter with teams about team dynamics, especially communication, influence within teams, and intra-team behaviors.
How It Works
Built on a proven, scientifically verified framework, the EiSA is easy to use and requires no professional certification. First, the Self-Assessment accurately measures emotional intelligence on 5 scales: Perceiving, Managing, Decision Making, Achieving, and Influencing.
The accompanying Participant Workbook and Workshop curriculum then enable individuals to become familiar with the concept, learn about themselves, and identify strategies designed to assist them in leveraging their strengths and, where applicable, find opportunities for improvement through development exercises and activities.
If you are planning to use the EiSA in a classroom training session, we recommend you allow approximately 1 hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debriefing, and action planning. The EiSA Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session, from comprehensive background information and activities to reproducible handouts and even a professional PowerPoint presentation. The Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands the EiSA into a 1 – 1.5 day training program.
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Created by two leaders in the field of emotional Intelligence training, Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell, Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI) offers a unique set of tools for determining and developing a team's emotional effectiveness in seven dimensions that are a prerequisite for high performance.
TESI is designed to inform you on the most current information on emotional and social intelligence research and outlines the authors' proven Collaborative Growth Team Model that gives team members the ability to rate their performance on the seven skills:
Team Identity, Motivation, Emotional Awareness, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Stress Tolerance, & Positive Mood.
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Created by two leaders in the field of emotional Intelligence training, Marcia Hughes and James Bradford Terrell, Team Emotional and Social Intelligence (TESI) offers a unique set of tools for determining and developing a team's emotional effectiveness in seven dimensions that are a prerequisite for high performance.
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Team Identity, Motivation, Emotional Awareness, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Stress Tolerance, & Positive Mood.
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How to Build Emotional Intelligence for Individuals and Teams: The Top 7 Skills
Duration: 60 minutes
Overview
Are your teams lacking direction, spinning out of control, or lacking the power to succeed? Research shows that emotional intelligence is a key driver in team and interpersonal dynamics.
What You’ll Learn:
The biggest challenge to productive teamwork. How to identify and develop the seven core behaviors of emotional effectiveness. Ways to spark candid conversations about what does – and doesn't – work well for the team. How to use emotional intelligence skills to integrate individual goals into team goals. Creating buy in with team members. About the Presenters:
Marcia Hughes:
Marcia Hughes is president of Collaborative Growth and serves as a strategic communications partner for teams and their leaders in organizations that value high performers. She weaves her expertise in emotional intelligence throughout her consulting, keynotes, facilitation, and team building. She is co-author of the Team Emotional and Social Intelligence, which includes the TESI® Short, A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence, The Emotionally Intelligent Team, and Emotional Intelligence in Action, and author of Life’s 2% Solution. Hughes is also the co-creator of the Team Emotional and Social Intelligence Survey™ (TESI®). She is a certified trainer in the Bar-On EQ-i and EQ-360 and provides train-the-trainer training and coaching in powerful EQ delivery.
James Bradford Terrell: James Bradford Terrell is Vice President of Collaborative Growth, L.L.C., where he applies his expertise in interpersonal communication to help a variety of public and private sector clients anticipate change and respond to it resiliently. He is co-author of the Team Emotional and Social Intelligence Facilitator Guide Package, which includes the TESI® Short, A Coach’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence, The Emotionally Intelligent Team, and Emotional Intelligence in Action. James also coaches leaders, teams in transition, and senior management, using the Bar-On EQi®, the EQ 360®, and other assessments. Terrell is co-creator of the Team Emotional and Social Intelligence Survey™ (TESI®), and he provides train-the-trainer workshops and educates both coaches and team leaders on how to develop the insightful interpretation and application of EQ results. Watch this free webcast at HRDQ.Go to HRDQ and click on Webcast:Click here to visit HRDQ
Emotional Intelligence: Creating Resonance in Your Organization
Duration: 60 minutes
Overview
Resonance. People experience this phenomenon as a feeling of being on the same wavelength or “in synch” with one another. Similarly, organizations that are resonant benefit from healthy interpersonal relationships, self-motivated employees, better decision making, effective teamwork, reduced turnover, and more.
Is your organization resonant? Here are a few questions for you to consider:
Is there a spirit of cooperation and a “can do” attitude in your organization?
Do people feel free to speak up in meetings?
Are there managers in your organization who inspire others?
Do employees enjoy coming to work each day?
If you answered “no” to any of these questions, your organization needs to improve its resonance and the emotional well-being that leads to success. Join Dr. Barbara Kerr, emotional intelligence expert and author of Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World for this interactive webcast that will show you how anyone can positively influence resonance within an organization.
At the conclusion of this webcast, you will:
Learn a three-part roadmap to enhance resonance within an organization.
Understand the power of emotions.
Know how to build awareness of emotions.
Understand a five-dimensional model of emotional intelligence.
Discover how to enhance emotional intelligence.About the Presenter;
Barbara Kerr, PhD conceived and designed Creating an Emotionally Intelligent World, a computer-based training game for organizational development. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Temple University and is an executive coach who has successfully run her own consulting business for more than twelve years. Dr. Kerr is certified in administering and interpreting the EQ-i, the most scientifically validated assessment of emotional intelligence. Having completed post-graduate training with the College of Executive Coaching, she is a certified Master Personal and Executive Coach. She is the author of several books, including “Read All Your Life” and co-author of “You Can Choose Your Own Life,” a decision making program for middle-school youngsters. Go to HRDQ, now click on HRDQ to watch this web cast:Click here to visit HRDQ
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Quotations about Emotions
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. ~Francesco Guicciardini
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1889
Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks. ~Una Stannard
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? ~Vincent Van Gogh
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ~Jim Rohn
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ~Claude Debussy
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ~Andre Gide
If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you. ~Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anxiety
Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ~Dale Carnegie