How to Change - Practical Steps for Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

How to Change -- Practical Steps for Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

Have you been getting some not-so-subtle hints that while your legal skills are above reproach, there are some real gaps in your people skills or your emotional intelligence?  Maybe it's an offhand comment from a senior partner or mentor, a hard body-shot in your annual performance review, a furious client telling you to hit the road, or missing the cut when you responded to a major corporation's RFP.  Perhaps the feedback is that your leadership skills are sub-par,  or that you rub people the wrong way or don't handle confrontation effectively.  Maybe you're accused of being insensitive or arrogant at times, or that you're short on political astuteness.   Maybe your peers and younger colleagues see you as an overly competitive self-aggrandizer, a passive pushover, an overbearing bully, or a pathetic people-pleaser.  One way or the other, you're getting the message that you sometimes lack the ability to relate appropriately and professionally with diverse people in diverse situations.

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