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Agile Project Management, Books, Emotional Intelligence, Teams

Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers – #3

<This is post 3 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. Check out Post 1 and Post 2 first if you have not seen them. In this article, we will dive into personal growth and the power of discovering the space between stimulus and response.> EI’s origins – Mayer and Salovey Four-Branch Model The precursor to Goleman’s EQ and Bar-On’s EQ-i models was created by John Mayer and Peter Salovey, who published their research in 1990. The Mayer and Salovey model extends the maturing idea we looked at in post #2 and adds layers of sophistication. It is called the Four-Branch model because it describes four branches of emotional skills, going down the […]

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Agile Project Management, Books, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Teams

Emotional Intelligence for Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Project Managers – #2

This is post #2 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. Check out Post #1 first, if you have not seen it already. In this article, we will explore what EI is and why it’s often such a tricky topic to define due to the proliferation of different models with similar-sounding components.   EI – Better Results by Becoming More Effective Let us start the EI exploration journey with a process we are all familiar with, growing up and becoming independent adults. Stephen Covey talks about a progression of maturity and effectiveness that people go through as they get older. We start as children, dependent on our parents for food, shelter, and support […]

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