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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

You're reading from   Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals The must-have guide for a successful career in IT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285798
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Emília M. Ludovino Emília M. Ludovino
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Preface 1. What is Emotional Intelligence? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Neuroscience Behind Emotional Intelligence 3. Core Emotional Intelligence Skills IT Professionals Need 4. How to Build an Emotionally Intelligent IT Organization 5. How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent IT Manager 6. How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent IT Leader 7. How to Hire Emotionally Intelligent IT Professionals 8. Preventing Stressful Situations with Emotional Resilience 9. Bibliography

A special word to prevent burnout


Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout is the outcome when you feel overwhelmed by work, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. You begin to lose motivation, interests as stress piles up. Most people are not aware that a burnout situation is more destructive to them that being overstressed. And a burnout is the outcome of being over-stressed for too long. Of course, to prevent a burnout situation first you need to know the symptoms of a burnout. But first let's learn the difference between stress and burnout:

First and foremost, burnout and stress are not the same thing, though burnout could be the outcome of a very stressful situation for too long time, without you taking care of yourself, like we have learnt in the five pillars of emotional resilience.

Stress, in general, denotes a sense of too much. Too many pressures, which demand too much of you physically,...

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