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Emotional Intelligence and You
June 25, 2009
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If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
-Timothy Leary

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In her new book, Leading on Purpose: Emotionally Intelligent Early Childhood Administration (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009), Holly Bruno emphasizes how important it is for early childhood leaders to employ emotional intelligence in their work. Bruno defines emotional intelligence as "the ability to read people... having the capability to acknowledge and understand feelings and to use these feelings as informational guides for thinking and action." Leaders with emotional intelligence acknowledge...
  1. There is no thinking without feeling, and no feeling without thinking.
  2. The more conscious we are to what we are experiencing, the more learning is possible, and,
  3. Self-knowledge is integral to learning.
And, the most effective early childhood leaders utilize emotional intelligence in every facet of their work — their work with children, parents, board members, teachers, custodians, bus drivers, vendors, volunteers, and community members.


The Exchange book, On Being a Leader, includes articles on evaluating your leadership style, being a boss, the traits of effective leaders, and improving your leadership effectiveness. This is just one of many Exchange leadership resources on our web site.

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theresa
Bridgeport, CT, United States
06/25/2009 3:13 pm

I think this is excellent and holds so true! There are times when I speak without enough thought. This happens when my strong feelings, which are loving and caring blind my point, I skip steps to the final result..I'll remember to be more thoughtful of others feelings. I can't expect everyone to be as heartfelt on issues with respect to early childhood. Thanks for helping me to stop and question myself!! Do I think enough befor I speak and take everyones feelings into account!


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