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Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves By Melissa J Wantuck  |
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Bestselling authors of their self-help book for professionals, Emotional Intelligence Quick Book, Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves have returned with an update. Their new book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0 (TalentSmart, 2009), tackles the working professionals’ need to improve their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) with new tools and tactics and finer honed ones in order to advance their careers.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a workbook. Start by taking the EQ test at TalentSmart’s website using the access code provided in the book, then use the results of your test as a guide to improving your EQ. At the very end is a section with discussion group questions to encourage critical thinking and review the process.
Bradberry and Greaves define EQ as an individual’s ability to balance emotion and reason, to not let one overpower the other but work together for the good of the individual. There are four areas of EQ: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Each of these areas has their own rating system. An individual can be strong in one but weak in the others. The goal is to uncover which areas you need work on and spend time there improving them.
The book is broken up into several sections. The first section introduces the author’s strategy behind the concept of EQ. Next, once you’ve taken the online test you record your results in the test results section. Based on your test scores, you’ll work through the next four sections, one for each area of EQ. The Epilogue summarizes Bradberry and Greaves’ findings.
Taking the test and reading through the strategies can be done in a weekend, but implementing them and changing your EQ will take longer and include a lot of practice. There probably won’t be a set timeline either because you may not know when circumstances are going to occur where you’ll have to put your EQ exercises to work. The book recommends waiting a few months before retaking the test and determining if you’ve improved your EQ.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 addresses the career side of the individual but not personal. Personal EQ is mentioned as being important to improve but strategies for it are not covered. You could take some time and adapt the strategies of the book but, regardless, more should be in the book on that subject. The book opens with an anecdotal personal story about how a man came face to face with a shark and lived to tell about it. This was a great personal account of how emotions can both hurt and help us, but the book stops there with the personal side and moves into the workplace.
Despite its optimistic tone and can-do attitude, the book doesn’t guarantee success and even points out many successful professionals have low EQs. Many of Bradberry and Greaves’ 66 strategies aren’t new and most could be included in a collection on common sense. Like any self-help book, it’s up to the reader to decide if it’s going to work for them or not.
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