Emotional Intelligence

How do the world’s most effective leaders make it to the top and stay there? Experience, technical skills and business acumen are not enough in themselves. The most influential leaders know how to engage the real drivers of effective performance - emotions.

Emotions really are the engine in the vehicle of leadership performance, and the skills associated with using emotions intelligently are indispensable to achieving outstanding success. 

In this book, Daire and Deirdre provide a wealth of practical strategies for systematically building the skills of emotional intelligence to achieve remarkable leadership influence. Quite simply, this book tells you how to do it - it is an intensely practical guide to interpreting and acquiring the skills of emotional intelligence that support leadership excellence.

Building on the solid research-based foundation of the Emotional Capital Model, it has become very clear that the skills that separate average leaders from star performers are grounded in the ability to manage one’s own emotions well and effectively engage the emotions of others.