Emotional Intelligence

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This 5-part series introduces you to the concept of emotional intelligence and provides you opportunities to personally assess where your skill sets are now and what you might do to enhance those skills.

We will dig down below the surface to understand what competitive advantages emotional intelligence offers and ways to incorporate it into your career at UT Dallas.

Emotional Intelligence Introduction

Why it Matters

This course introduces you to the concept of emotional intelligence and the core skills involved. We will explore the importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace, and why it matters to you as an employee.

Emotional Intelligence Practicum 1

Understanding Yourself

In this follow-up to the Emotional Intelligence: Introduction, we will focus on Self-Awareness. Participants will learn what effective self-awareness looks like and certain skills you can use to increase your self-awareness.
Emotional Intelligence Practicum 2: Managing Yourself – For the second practicum of the Emotional Intelligence series, we take the next step and examine the importance of being able to manage ourselves in the face of disruptive emotions and how to behave less impulsively.

Emotional Intelligence Practicum 3

Understanding Others

With this third session, our attention now shifts to others. More specifically, we will examine the third core competency of emotional intelligence—social awareness. For this practicum, we will focus on learning to paying attention to the emotional cues that others send out and then ways we can use this information to adjust our behavior accordingly.

Emotional Intelligence Practicum 4

Building Relationships

In this fourth practicum of our series on emotional intelligence, we continue the discussion began in Part 3 about developing and increasing our social competence. Emotional intelligence is very much about being socially aware but this awareness alone is not enough. We must also develop positive interaction and participation skills in order to have successful relationships with others.