Comparing Bradberry And Dr. Jean Greaves

Introduction After co-authoring Emotional Intelligence Appraisal, Dr. Travis Bradberry and Dr. Jean Greaves took a step further in informing the world why emotional intelligence was so important. As the co-founders of TalentSmart, a consultant and research company that serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Bradberry and Dr. Greaves have created a guide to increase our emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 serves as a step by step memoranda to increase your emotional intelligence. Drs. Bradberry and Greaves surround this plan around four core skills of self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management. They believe that by increasing emotional intelligence while challenging these skills,

They are natural feelings that remain unavoidable. However, the only way to move past them is to understand them, explore them, and control them (Bradberry, Greaves, 2009). The authors begin Emotional Intelligence 2.0, by giving a very descriptive example of the decisions and emotions a young man goes through while being in the ocean and barely escaping being attacked by a shark. It is clear that the actions the young man makes are controlled from fear. The emotional responses he faced aroused from a reasonable area of the human brain (Bradberry, Greaves, 2009). However, we he took the time to make a conscious decision, he was able to take control of his mind. The authors used this example to relate struggling with emotional decisions with everyday life. It is then brought to the reader’s attention how emotions directly correlate with skills that one has to have in every day life. The authors teach the reader, “EQ is the foundation for a host of critical skills, and it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all types of jobs (Bradberry, Greaves, 2009). The reader is encouraged to take an Emotional Intelligence Appraisal test before reading any further in the book, then again after completing the reading. This test will show where the readers EQ stands. After taking the first test, the book offers an action plan based off of the scores of the test. The reader is allowed to choose which skill they would like to work on and learn about first. The rest of the book is separated between the four skills (self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management). The separations of the book go in depth and give strategies, instructions, and guides on how to strengthen, maintain, and express these skills. These actions strengthen your emotional