Introduction
The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has become a very hot topic of psychological research in recent years, especially with regards to how it affects today’s workforce. Businesses are essentially people, so anything that impacts the effectiveness of people’s minds also impacts the businesses they run or work for. In fact, many experts now believe that a person’s emotional quotient (EQ) may be more important than their intelligence quotient (IQ) and is certainly a better predictor of success, quality of relationships, and overall happiness. The concept of EI not only applies to business but also to the business schools. With this context in mind we at Dr. V.N. Bedekar Institute of Management Studies organized a One day intensive workshop on Emotional Intelligence.
The programme was held on 25th Feb 2015. The resource person was Dr. Gowri Joshi. She is a management consultant, corporate trainer, personal counselor, researcher and management educator since the last 14 years. The programme was attended by 18 faculty members from different colleges.
Learning Outcomes as put forward by the participants:
1) Learning about self maturity levels
2) Learning about various stages in a human ego
3) How a person reacted based on his/her ego and how such situations have to be managed.
4) Indentifying reactions to the situation as a Parent, Adult or Child (P or A or C)
5) Identifying ego states
6) Identifying thoughts leading to influences feelings, which leads to behavior
7) Controlling your thoughts will lead to changes in feelings which will lead to improved behaviors
8) In any human interaction to be rewarding and successful, we need to understand the ego state of the other human being(s) in the interaction.
9) In a good professional interaction, people transact directly, straight forwardly, and without any ulterior motives
10) The most ideal state to be in is the adult ego state – this is the ego state where logical reasoning is followed
