Essential Skills for Commercial Success

Essential Skills for Commercial Success

The tide is turning in the terms of the skills that many organisations are looking for in their managers, executives and leaders.

Whilst education, experience, skills, and training (IQ) are still high on the list many organisations are now realising that ‘Emotional Competencies’ (EQ) are equally, if not more important, for effective performance. Coaching and experiential learning programmes are the most powerful ways to train yourself, and managers and leaders in these fundamental competencies proven in research to impact high performance.

The Role of Emotional Competency

Daniel Goleman, the pioneering author of ‘Emotional Intelligence’, researched competency models from 181 different positions drawn from 121 companies and discovered that 67 percent of the competencies deemed essential for effective performance were “emotional” competencies. In a later study by the Hay Group, emotional competencies were once again found to be twice as important in contributing to excellence as pure intellect and expertise. As a result of these and other pioneering research Goleman extracted 25 key emotional intelligence competencies that are proven in research to be most important to job performance.

Emotional competencies are best impacted and honed through experiential training. They are by definition not “analytical” and therefore can not be taught through traditional didactic instruction methods.

So for optimum performance development – if you’re looking to advance up the career ladder, then these Emotional Intelligence competences must be a part of your professional development, and if you’re looking to improve the performance of the key staff in your business, then your training programmes should ideally focus heavily on developing emotional intelligence competencies and be experiential in nature.


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Kyle Newman Kyle is a true leader and entrepreneur at heart. He thrives on working with people, both in groups and on an individual basis, and does so with great enthusiasm and professionalism.He is a talented coach and works with his clients to not only achieve their ‘external goals’ but to also really know and value themselves and build the confidence and inner-strength to be their best. He wants the people he works with to leave ‘standing strong’ - knowing that they are more than capable of going out into the world and creating the life they want, and taking whatever challenges come their way in their stride. He believes that life is an adventure to be lived and celebrated, not feared or hidden from. ♦ Kyle's Website                                             ♦ Follow us on Twitter   ♦ Find us on Facebook   ♦ Kyle on Know No Limits TV

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