Resilience And Emotional Intelligence

I have published a book chapter called, Emotional Intelligence for Resilience: How

to Know What you Really Want and Stay Focused on it, in the Amazon best seller book, Upping the Down Side.

My chapter focuses on having clarity of intention that results in more energy and resilience. Clarity of intention means you know what you really want. This self-awareness is crucial for emotional intelligence. If you can look inward and identify what really matters for you in a given situation, you will have the energy to stay the course in spite of turbulence.

Or, if turbulence does knock you off course, you can ask yourself, What really matters now? When you get clear on what matters, you will energize yourself to find ways to get back on course.

This is resilience: The ability to be resourceful in handling turbulence and to bounce back when necessary. The more you know with what you really want at a deep level, the more resilient you will become. The more you can stay in touch with what really matters, the clearer it will become for you, how to bounce back.

Secondly, if you can discover what others really want and help them get it, you can build a strong, resilient company.

For example, if you are a manager and one of your employees comes to you and complains about a coworker, saying the coworker has dragged his feet on a project that they are working on together. What do you do? I am recommending you first get clear on what you really want. Then ask the other two employees what they really want in this situation. Finally, you craft a solution that is in harmony with all your values.

This is where you can use your skills in resilience and emotional Intelligence, and dig deeper into what you really want so you can craft more resourceful strategies and stay resilient.

Copyright 2009, by William R. Murray, President of Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching, LLC. Reprint rights granted to all venues so long as this article and by-line are printed intact with all links made live.

by: William R. Murray

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