Implications of Lacking High Professional Success Skills and Emotional Intelligence

Some of the aptitudes necessary to achieve professional success skills are as follows:

  • listening and communicating
  • problem-solving
  • self-awareness
  • self-management
  • motivation and drive
  • drafting the right strategies and decisions
  • setting the right goals and following through with them
  • picking up on social cues
  • group and interpersonal effectiveness, cooperativeness, teamwork
  • negotiation
  • cultural sensitivity
  • leadership

How can Emotional Intelligence help?

Emotional Intelligence helps you increase all of the above professional success skills by increasing your ability to:

  • understand your thoughts, feelings and behaviors
  • manage your feelings and behaviors
  • understand others
  • communicate effectively
  • manage relationships
  • make sound decisions
  • focus on what is important to you
  • follow through with your goals

Poor listening and communications skills lead to:

  • low morale
  • decreased innovation
  • wasted time
  • low product quality/high degree of mistakes
  • conflict with others
  • low personal and professional satisfaction
  • low self-esteem
  • low trust/closeness with others
  • low self-advocacy
  • loss of recognition, raises, or promotions
  • loss of income

Poor problem-solving skills leads to:

  • low adaptability to life stressors
  • rigidity in thinking
  • trouble completing tasks
  • misguided conclusions/decisions
  • interpersonal problems
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement
  • failed business

Poor self-awareness skills leads to:

  • unrealistic assumptions about own strengths/weaknesses
  • unrealistic expectations, assumptions, or distortions
  • subconscious negative thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
  • inability to understand motivation in creation of goals

Poor self-management skills leads to:

  • impulsivity
  • wrong decisions
  • lack of control over behavior
  • interpersonal conflict
  • being fired

Low motivation and drive lead to:

  • being left out of best projects or jobs
  • loss of respect from others
  • low achievement
  • low self-esteem
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Difficulty drafting/applying strategies and goals lead to:

  • loss of valuable time
  • mistakes/misguided decisions
  • difficulty leading others
  • low achievement
  • resentment from others
  • feelings of failure
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Difficulty picking up on social cues leads to:

  • misunderstanding feelings and needs of others
  • feelings of exclusion or rejection
  • feeling and making things socially uncomfortable
  • being blamed for rudeness, selfishness, or unawareness
  • low social and business success

Poor group cooperativeness and effectiveness lead to:

  • not being welcome to join work teams
  • low chances of promotion
  • low chances of being given leadership responsibilities
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Poor negotiation skills leads to:

  • difficulty preventing conflicts from occurring or escalating
  • a negative workplace reputation
  • resentment from others
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Low cultural sensitivity skills leads to:

  • trouble dealing with diversity in the workplace
  • difficulty communicating with those of various backgrounds
  • being blamed for rudeness or unawareness
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Lack of leadership skills leads to:

  • lack of leadership responsibilities given
  • low performance in leadership roles
  • a negative workplace reputation
  • lack of opportunity for promotion and career advancement

Having a high degree of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is essential to success and a happy life. EI is easily learned and will give you the high professional success skills that you deserve.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author Georgiana Spradling, Ph.D., MFT, CDVC, is a multicultural and multilingual (English, Spanish, French) Emotional Intelligence and Relationship Coach with over 20 years of experience helping people choose the right partners and avoid the wrong ones, manage emotions and behaviors in self and others, leave unhealthy partnerships and move past old relationships. She is a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor and has a Certificate as an Anger Management Facilitator.

Her e-book: Don’t Get Stuck With the Wrong Partner: Learn to detect unhealthy traits and behaviors in others is available on Amazon Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VPMHLV8. In it you will find more dating tips:

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  • Advice on what to do when you find traits and behaviors that make you uncomfortable or that suggest deeply rooted physical or psychological issues that are hard to manage and live with.

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