Emotional Intelligence

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Welcome to the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) playlist. 
Here you will learn what emotional intelligence is and will get familiar with its core parts. 
To start with, Emotional Intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict. EQ gained popularity in the 1995 best-selling book "Emotional Intelligence", written by science journalist Daniel Goleman. 
Daniel Goleman presented a mixed model that represented EQ as a wide array of competencies and skills that drive leadership performance. These are the following:
Self-awareness – the ability to know one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and goals and recognize their impact on others while using gut feelings to guide decisions.
Emotion regulation – involves controlling or redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances.
Self-motivation – being aware of what motivates them.
Empathy – considering other people's feelings especially when making decisions.
Social skills – managing relationships to get along with others.
By completing the five tasks you will learn about each of the core skills, while the worksheets will help you to reflect on the knowledge received. 
And the most exciting part - you will receive the EQ Master badge proving your skills in this exciting field!
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Wanna learn about yourself before diving into the knowledge sea? 
Great idea! Please complete the test presented by the Global Leadership Foundation on the Emotional Intelligence to get your unique score.
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Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Self-awareness

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1 hour

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Emotion regulation

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1 hour

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Self-motivation

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1 hour

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Empathy

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1 hour

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Social skills

Mandatory

1 hour

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Content

One of the core emotional intelligence skills is social skills. 
Social skills are essential for workplace success. Also called “interpersonal skills,” social skills are what we all use to interact and communicate with other people. These skills include both verbal skills (the way you speak to other people) and nonverbal skills (your body language, gestures, and eye contact).
In the following video by TED, Julian Treasure will explain how to speak so that people want to listen. 
Furthermore, the worksheet will give you an opportunity to reflect on this topic and think about the social skills that you find important and skills that you would like to improve. 
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Resources

Worksheet for Social Skills activity

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This badge is issued for learning and thinking about social skills. ﻿
Owners of this badge demonstrate awareness of the social skills, having the ability to reflect on the skills for improvement, and committing to making changes in their behavior.

Tasks

Task no.1

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In order to receive the badge, please complete the worksheet and upload the evidence.
Follow steps to think of many different social skills, reflect on what are the most important to you, and commit to improving one of the social skills. Upload the filled-in worksheet. Share your research results about one or more of the following:
1. What inspired you in the video?
2. What was the surprising/challenging part of the worksheet?

Skills

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#demonstrate motivation

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#perform self assessment

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#manage own emotions

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#exercise self-control

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#show empathy

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#social interactions

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#regulate moods

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#self-reflection

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#Assertiveness

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#control impulses

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#personal development

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#show motivation

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#self promotion

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#self-control

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#socialise with others

Activities: 5

Started: 3

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 5 hours

Organisers

Vilnius City of Learning

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