Overview

Learn how to control your emotions and use them to help you achieve your goals with an award-winning professor.

We have all had experiences with people that prove that those with the highest IQs are not always the most successful. What could these very smart people be missing? Chances are it’s emotional intelligence (EQ) – the ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions in ourselves and others. Sounds very powerful, doesn’t it? Could we really manage our own emotions, as opposed to having our emotions run the show? Could we really effect change in the emotions of our coworkers or family members? The answer to all these questions is a resounding “yes.”

Whether or not you understand your emotions and their resultant behaviors, they leave their impacts like footprints – for better or worse – all over the situations and people with whom you interact throughout your life, as well as affecting your cognition, decision-making, and physical body. And while some aspects of your EQ are inherited, the vast majority of EQ skills can be acquired at any age.

In Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Jason Satterfield shares how to identify and regulate your own emotions, how to manage emotions in others, a step-by-step process for building your own interactive Skills Tracker to improve your personal EQ, and where to find numerous resources to improve your EQ as an ongoing, unlimited learning experience. With the tools and skills you gather from this exciting interactive course, you will be able to improve your emotional intelligence now and throughout your life – using your emotions as you want, to help reach your own personal goals.

Course Outline

01: What Is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)?

Learn about the relatively recent emergence of emotional intelligence as a unique field of inquiry and the three leading theories used to describe and understand EQ. With your emotion journal, you’ll start building your EQ Skills Tracker, a running library of what you learn in this course about your own emotions and a to-do list for future learning.

Duration: 33 min

02: Measuring EQ

Learn about the four most highly regarded EQ assessment tools and how they each rate with respect to validity and reliability.

Duration: 35 min

03: Exploring Emotions

Learn about the steps in the process of how emotions are generated and the resulting feedback cycles as described in the Modal Model of Emotions.

Duration: 32 min

04: Embodied Emotions

Discover how your emotions affect your physical body and which parts of your central and peripheral nervous systems contribute to the experiences we recognize as emotions.

Duration: 30 min

05: Emotional Impacts

Learn how your EQ affects your intimate relationships, professional and social relationships, cognition, decision-making, and physical health.

Duration: 33 min

06: Perceiving and Expressing Emotions

Learn the EQ skills that can help you improve your understanding of yourself and how to pick up clues about others’ emotional states.

Duration: 29 min

07: Understanding Emotions

Explore the primary emotions and their associated thoughts and behaviors, and learn how to perceive and correctly identify emotions and their triggers.

Duration: 33 min

08: Managing Your Emotions

Learn about antecedent-focused and response-focused emotion regulation strategies and how to employ them for your own benefit.

Duration: 31 min

09: Managing Others’ Emotions

Discover how the EQ skills we use in our communication and interaction with others can be powerfully influential in managing their emotions.

Duration: 30 min

10: The Development of EQ

Explore how genetic makeup and early socialization impact our EQ, and learn how it is always possible to improve EQ through purposeful training.

Duration: 28 min

11: Emotional Intelligence Training

Examine several of the most popular Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs and their goals, strengths, and challenges in measuring outcomes.

Duration: 32 min

12: Social Intelligence

Learn how to use your EQ to improve your social intelligence and strengthen social relationships in every aspect of your life.

Duration: 31 min

13: Intimacy and EQ

Understand how EQ training can teach you to successfully express and perceive emotions, which are necessary skills for successful adult intimate relationships.

Duration: 30 min

14: Interpersonal Conflict

Discover how emotional and social intelligence skills can help find common ground and address personal and community issues.

Duration: 32 min

15: EQ in the Workplace

Learn how EQ skills can positively impact workplace interactions and facilitate creativity, excitement, and enthusiasm among employees and leadership.

Duration: 31 min

16: Occupational Stress and Burnout

Explore how EQ skills can help mitigate work stress and the potential role of “love” in lessening workplace stress.

Duration: 34 min

17: Leadership and EQ

Understand how EQ skills training is helping business leaders better accomplish their long-term goals.

Duration: 31 min

18: Workplace Culture

Learn how managing workplace culture can lead to greater employee engagement and significant revenue growth.

Duration: 33 min

19: Stress Management

Discover how improving EQ skills can help mediate physiological responses to stress and lead to better health overall.

Duration: 34 min

20: Emotion Regulation Disorders

Learn how EQ skills can help address heightened emotional experiences common in anxiety and depression.

Duration: 32 min

21: Behavior Change and EQ

Explore the role of emotions in behavioral choices and motivation, and learn how to improve your self-efficacy and develop SMART goals.

Duration: 36 min

22: Chronic Disease and EQ

Examine the relationships between EQ and health-oriented behaviors in managing chronic diseases like alcohol-use disorders and cardiovascular disease.

Duration: 36 min

23: Emotional Intelligence in Health Care

Learn how to improve your healthcare interactions by better understanding and monitoring your emotions and those of your healthcare provider.

Duration: 31 min

24: The Future of Emotional Intelligence

Explore how technology can help or hinder our EQ and the exciting advances in emotional recognition and monitoring software.

Duration: 38 min