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The Handbook of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Inspiring Others to Achieve Results

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This book provides an assessment tool of 50 questions for ranking and teaches two sets of skills for emotionally intelligent leadership. 1. 5 Core Skills for the individual: knowing yourself, maintaining control, reading others, perceiving accurately and communicating with flexibility. 2. 5 Higher-order Skills for leadership: taking responsibility, generating choices, embracing a vision, having courage and demonstrating resolve. Reasons for the usefulness of these skills, stories and exercises are provided. There are also action techniques. For the Core Skills: we have PaRC Formula--pause, reflect, choose, Core Connecting in focus, Syncing-In with intuition, Focused Listening, Re-Framing, Process Communication. For the Higher-order Skills: Responsibility Checklist, Choice Building, Vision Linking, Lighting the Fire of our courage and Firming Up in finding support, network and new ways to get things done. People who use the book in the context of a workshop may be attracted by the simplicity of these skills and gain much through practice, sharing and the facilitation by the author. As a book, it seems to consist mostly of common sense and the content is a bit slim.

Normally books with content of this quality tend to be long and heavy in weight!

Whilst this book is short and so great for most of us who only have time for long books on airplanes on the way to meetings or on vacation, it offers a clear,tothepoint perspective on emotionaly intelligent leadership and how to develop it.

Nowadays you find a lot of convoluted explanations how to become effective in the workplace - with its explicit and relatable to examples and practical techniques, this book is a breath of fresh air.

Whether you are an employee or employer you would wish that ypour coworkers wouldlearn and employ the basic but important skills imparted here.

I work in performance improvement at a technology company where we have numerous engineers challenged with the transition from individual contributor to manager. Often, their engineering background leaves them ill-prepared for the inter-personal reality of managing and leading others. In a nutshell, they need to develop their emotional intelligence. This book gives them E.I. in a nutshell. They don't have time for lengthy, impractical tomes. This book gives them what they need to identify their opportunites for improvement and strategies they can quickly import into their personal development plans. Kudos to Dr. Feldman for giving me a valuable tool!

This small book is a gem for what it covers, and what it doesn't. Don't be fooled by its brevity. If you're planning on providing or coordinating a company training on EI Leadership, this Handbook might be your best bet.

The reason I say this is that even though the book is short, that's only by design, where the author has chose each word carefully, and decided to not write an academic or research oriented text. Instead, Dr. Feldman has written a Handbook to support training and guidance to an organizational team.

I found the Core Skills and discussion of the PaRC Method direct, useful, and easy to understand. The Self Assessment is also useful as well in terms of surveying the relevant domains. There's clear advice on developing higher-order skills. The exercises are easy to do, and don't over-reach. Readers and training participants will likely achieve the desired outcomes and learning goals, and that's probably the author's desired goals.

This book does a great job at taking the beginning student through the world of EI Leadership Training, developing valuable perceptions and self-awareness, and enabling practice in many basic and a few higher order behavioral skills core to Emotional Intelligence. "

I attended one of Dr. Feldman's workshops recently and this was the pre-reading. This book provides outstanding advice on how to understand and control your emotional reaction in difficult situations. The insight I gained from this book is invaluable.

What I like most about this book is its simplicity. In a brief and simple explanation, Dr. Feldman was able to elaborate the emotional concepts necessary in the field of business and leadership.

Despite its brevity, this book has provided some basic and practical strategies to develop the core skills such as knowing yourself and maintaining control and the high-order skills such as taking responsibility and embracing a vision.

For instance, Dr. Feldman recommends "PaRC Formula" and "Focused listening" to develop the core skills while he suggests "Vision Linking" and "Choice Building" to develop the high-order skills.

Overall, the book's simplicity is its strength.

This book is a very quick read and has a lot of common sense philosophies in it. Things we all know but sometimes need to be reminded of. It doesn't have a lot of meat in it but some good examples.

Now we need to get folks to pay attention to our Humanity, at least to try to understand. This Book is a darn good start.

This book is more of a student workbook with high level general information. I would not recommend this book to anyone.