Do you understand the role your emotions play in how you see yourself and others? Are you easily upset when frustrated by difficult people or tasks? In challenging conversations, do you listen carefully in order to understand the other person's point of view? Are your relationships as meaningful as you would like them to be?

In this one-day session, Dr. Marie Amey-Taylor, Assistant Vice-President of Human Resources at Temple University and Associate Director of Temple's newly created Academic Center of Research in Diversity, will help participants address these and other related questions.

She will define emotional intelligence and describe the advantages of leveraging emotional intelligence in professional and interpersonal interactions.

Participants will identify and assess their abilities in each of the model's four quadrants - awareness of self, self-management/regulation, awareness of others, and adeptness in interpersonal relations and situations.

They will also determine their own social/interpersonal styles and practice building their communication skills. This will include practice with their abilities to "style flex", or to modify one's interactional style to facilitate communication with others whose styles may be similar or different from one's own.

Participants will obtain a pre assessment of their emotional intelligence. Dr Amey-Taylor will be using Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry. Participants will receive a
copy of the book.

Registration is required.