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(5) Strategies for improving emotional intelligence: - ANSWER - Reducing negative
emotions
- Reducing the fear of rejection
- Reducing stress
- Being assertive and expressing difficult emotions
- Bouncing back from adversity
Empathy - ANSWER - "the ability to understand and share the feelings of another"
- Important to consider when thinking about your emotional intelligence
- Putting yourself in their position
- Differs from sympathy in that it requires inhabiting the same emotional space as
another person and it requires inhabiting the same emotional space as another person
Sympathy - ANSWER - "feelings of pity and sorry for someone else's misfortune"
- A detached position, akin to feeling bad "for" someone
- It doesn't carry the same kind of emotional weight as does empathy
Negative personalization - ANSWER - whenever you adopt a posture of negativity about
a person's behavior instead of first looking at the situation from multiple points of view -
Instead of jumping to conclusions, the best course of action here—given that we wont
have access to any more information than we presently have—is to consider other
possibilities
- Practicing this is the quickest and easiest way to ruin a strong work relationship
Reactive behavior - ANSWER - compromises your ability to function in a healthy way at
work
- Yelling at someone who belittles you, seeking revenge, steering clear of people in a
way that makes it difficult for you to be productive at work—all of these strategies only
offer temporary solutions
Proactive behavior - ANSWER - rather than being controlled by emotion, _______
behavior is ruled by logic
- It involves being self-aware enough to realize why you feel a certain way in a stressful
situation and learning to anticipate your future behavior
Physiological noise - ANSWER - anything that affects the body in a negative way - Ex:
temporary or chronic illness, a sprained ankle, a toothache, or any other number of
injuries that hinder a person's ability to fully function
, Physical noise - ANSWER - everything in your external environment
- Actual noise that distracts you from being able to concentrate
- Ex: cell phone, train, whistle, pen tapping
Psychological noise - ANSWER - mild or severe mental health issue
- The most invisible and most stigmatized
- Stress/anxiety/depression
Semantic noise - ANSWER - when something gets lost in translation between speaker
and listener, or sender and receiver
- Concerned with mix-ups in written and verbal communication
- Caused by a number of factors: lack of clarity or details, cultural misunderstandings,
previously held assumptions about the information being delivered
- Ex: mix up about meeting times
(4) types of noise: - ANSWER - Physiological
- Physical
- Psychological
- Semantic
Personal responsibility - ANSWER - idea that human beings choose, instigate, or
otherwise cause their own actions
Professional responsibility - ANSWER - the area of legal practice that encompasses the
duties of attorneys to act in a professional manner, obey the law, avoid conflicts of
interest, and put the interests of clients ahead of their own interests
Synchronous communication - ANSWER - occurs in real time; the individuals involved
give immediate responses to one another and engage in turn taking
- Phone calls or meetings in which both parties are present at the same time
Asynchronous communication - ANSWER - does not occur in real time; individuals
involved in such communication can pay attention to and respond to communication at
a time of their choosing
- Is the sending of, and responding to, messages on one's own schedule: social media
or email
Reactionary escalation - ANSWER - there's no rule stating that you have to respond in
kind
- If you get an angry comment or email, you don't have to (and shouldn't) reply in the
same manner
Brand consistency - ANSWER - leads to successfulness