The Institute for Applied Emotional Intelligence
Formerly the Centre for Applied Emotional Intelligence, we are currently going through the transition to becoming an Institute with charitable status, with the long term aim of achieving Chartered status.
Our Institute has four key aims:
- Promote the understanding of emotional intelligence and how to develop it
- Continually raise standards in EI practitionership
- Pursue research into attitudinal change and development
- Make EI development accessible to a much wider audience
Our website is currently being redesigned to represent these key aims. In the meantime, please read on to find out about our current activities.
Accreditation Success!
We are delighted to announce that our EI coach and practitioner training provided by our training partner Minds4Success Ltd has achieved accreditation through Middlesex University.
We are currently offering 3 accredited pathways:
- Foundation in EI Self Mastery
A personal EI development journey for anyone wishing to develop their own emotional intelligence (20 credits)
Module runs over 9 months and involves 5 contact days, participation in an action learning set, and self-directed learning.
This Foundation module forms the basis of the following Certificate and Diploma programmes.
- Certificate in Emotional Intelligence Coaching
(leading to a postgraduate certificate award from Middlesex University)
Become and EI Coach with the only accredited emotional intelligence-based coach training programme currently available in the UK! (60 credits)
- Diploma in Emotional Intelligence Development
(leading to a postgraduate diploma award from Middlesex University)
Additional modules to the Certificate in Emotional Intelligence Coaching create an advanced study in EI practitionership for those wanting to develop their EI consultancy and training expertise. (120 credits)
A total of 80 credits may be mapped on to Middlesex University’s MA or MSc in Work-based Learning.
To find out more please download the Programme overview and Timetable. For a full prospectus and application form, please contact our Director of Learning & Development, Amanda Knight, at amanda@appliedei.co.uk.
AppliedEI™
The Institute’s unique approach to EI − AppliedEI™ − is founded on the belief that EI is changeable and developable because our emotional intelligence is underpinned by our fundamental attitudes, the attitudes we have towards ourselves and towards others.
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Applied EI – the book
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence (EI) first came to the world's attention in the mid 1990s with Dan Goleman's groundbreaking books 'Emotional Intelligence' and 'Working with Emotional Intelligence' - Goleman highlighted the importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace, showing how it can be used to predict performance and to identify high achievers.
We find that most people have the potential to behave with emotional intelligence, but that so much of the time we do not, because of our interferences - internal interferences mostly resulting from false beliefs and limiting habits adopted (for what were then good reasons) in childhood, and retained, unwittingly, in adulthood. The process of enabling someone to develop their emotional intelligence therefore consists in helping them to identify and dismantle, or at least to learn to manage, these interferences.
So, for us, emotional intelligence is not a synonym for personality; it is about how we manage our personality.
In order to act with emotional intelligence you need:
- a complex set of attitudes and skills
The skills can be learned, and the attitudes can be adopted.
Emotional intelligence is a predictor of performance and success
- High emotional intelligence leads to effective self management and effective relationship management, which in turn lead to high performance and personal success.
- High emotional intelligence is demonstrated by the fundamental underlying attitude of acceptance of self and others which enables effective self and relationship management.
There is no quick fix for high performance and personal success
- EI development involves changing attitudes and habits as well as acquiring knowledge and skills, so it does take time and commitment to be sustained. It must therefore be seen as a medium-term investment by the organisation and by the individual - but the rewards for both are significant.
- All aspects of emotional intelligence are changeable and developable, and some changes can be immediate. High performance and personal success are therefore achievable goals both for individuals and organisations. There will often be some short-term benefits, but for sustainable change, development over time is needed.
EI development needs to be individual-oriented
- Because different people have different interferences which hinder their acting with emotional intelligence, the development of emotional intelligence needs to be individual-oriented. It needs to begin with the measurement of the individual's current awareness and competence in each of the aspects of emotional intelligence.
- Having assessed current levels of EI, development programmes need to develop specific areas which will strengthen self and relationship management. At the same time, they need to pay attention to the development of emotionally intelligent attitudes and habits.