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The Neuroscience Behind Emotional Intelligence

In this chapter, we will learn the basics of neuroscience behind the most important competencies of emotional intelligence. You cannot master the EI competencies without mastering the basic knowledge behind them. To know how the brain processes our emotional data it is important to understand the role of emotions in self-awareness, self-control, changing behavior and defeating thoughts, managing stress, improving decision-making, and building strong and meaningful relationships. We will cover:

The three functional brains
Emotions and the emotional brain:
- Neuroscience behind decision making
- Neuroscience behind mindfulness
- Neuroscience behind gratitude
- Neuroscience behind empathy

Emotions are not just a matter of the heart, they are also a result of brain biochemistry--this is the conclusion from neuroscience, medicine, psychology...

Key benefits

Get real-life case studies for different IT roles, developers, testers, analysts, project managers, DBAs

Identify with your IT scenarios and take the right decision to move up in your career

Improve your EQ and face any difficult scenario confidently and effectively

Description

This book will help you discover your emotional quotient (EQ) through practices and techniques that are used by the most successful IT people in the world. It will make you familiar with the core skills of Emotional Intelligence, such as understanding the role that emotions play in life, especially in the workplace. You will learn to identify the factors that make your behavior consistent, not just to other employees, but to yourself. This includes recognizing, harnessing, predicting, fostering, valuing, soothing, increasing, decreasing, managing, shifting, influencing or turning around emotions and integrating accurate emotional information into decision-making, reasoning, problem solving, etc., because, emotions run business in a way that spreadsheets and logic cannot. When a deadline lurks, you’ll know the steps you need to take to keep calm and composed. You’ll find out how to meet the deadline, and not get bogged down by stress. We’ll explain these factors and techniques through real-life examples faced by IT employees and you’ll learn using the choices that they made. This book will give you a detailed analysis of the events and behavioral pattern of the employees during that time. This will help you improve your own EQ to the extent that you don’t just survive, but thrive in a competitive IT industry.

Who is this book for?

This book is for professionals across the IT domain who work as developers, administrators, architects, administrators system analysts, and so on, who want to create a better working environment around them by improving their own emotional intelligence. This book assumes that you are a beginner to emotional intelligence and will help you understand the basic concepts before helping you with real life scenarios.

What you will learn

Improve your observation skills to understand people better

Know how to identify what motivates you and those around you

Develop strategies for working more effectively with others

Increase your capacity to influence people and improve your communication skills

Understand how to successfully complete tasks through other people

Discover how to control the emotional content of your decision-making

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