"The challenge for the Chief Executive is to establish an environment that facilitates the development of sustainable relationships."  Ed Weymes, Ph.D.

"How managers feel is a useful indicator and predictor of organizational performance."
David Caruso, Ph.D. and Peter Salovey, Ph.D.

Emotional Intelligence Abilities

Each of us has natural and learned abilities when it comes to the interaction of our thinking and our emotions.  Those abilities are:

	The Ability to Perceive emotion in self and others.
	The ability to Use emotions to facilitate thought in self and others.
	The ability to Understand emotions in self and others..
	The ability to Manage emotions in self and others.

You can become aware of your strengths and weaknesses in these four ability areas through the use of the MSCEIT assessment.

Growing your strengths and developing strategies to adjust to areas for development in your emotional intelligence abilities can be done with training and coaching.  Find out more about the levels of Emotional Intelligence.  High on the list of this training and coaching is gaining insight into:

	The mental models we have about emotions and how those can either build and sustain relationships or derail our hoped for results.
	The types of information our emotions provide about ourselves, others and the situations we experience.
	The connection between your mind and your emotions – what makes it health and what makes it addictive.