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LEADER'S GUIDE - Visit Our Store to learn about the Smart Emotions Leader's Guide.
You can use the guide along with the Smart Emotions book to help you lead successful discussions around the various topics, concepts and techniques
presented in the book. The guide provides what you need to coach your entire team as you and they develop Emotional Intelligence skills.
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WHO IS THIS FOR?
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
WHAT DO I GET OUT OF THE BOOK (BENEFITS)?
WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS BOOK?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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WHO IS THIS FOR?
This book was developed with the busy business person in mind. It is a highly efficient "how to" book that includes five simple, proven techniques and the minimal amount of background information you'll need to enhance your emotional intelligence skills. The scientifically validated techniques are designed for practical use in today's workplace. Using the techniques will help you to improve mental clarity and focus, to lead and mange change with greater ease and creativity, and to strengthen relationships, performance and health. Applying these techniques daily will make your life at work and at home significantly better - forever?
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This book will show you how to recognize and transform negative, draining feelings into positive, productive emotions and actions. By eliminating the downward spiral of negative emotions, you will be able to direct more energy into performing effectively, to innovating and creating, and to connecting and collaborating.
WHAT DO I GET OUT OF THE BOOK (BENEFITS)?
Through practicing (using) the techniques taught in the book, you have the potential to improve your decision-making, your relationships and your health. You'll discover that when you're internally self-managed - feeling calm, in control and powerful - you'll make your greatest contribution:
- You'll act, not react.
- You'll think creatively.
- You'll communicate clearly.
- You'll make good decisions.
- You'll manage well under pressure.
Your most inspiring leadership qualities will emerge
And when you work in that zone of peak performance, you'll influence those around you to perform at their best too!
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WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS BOOK?
- Five Simple Techniques to Develop Emotional Competencies
There are five techniques that specifically address the five emotional competencies you need to develop for successful living. Each technique is presented and explained in a format you can learn and practice with ease. You can rely on our experience in helping hundreds of people just like you, since 1991.
- A "Learning Map"
The "map" serves as a visual reference, to help you see how each technique builds skills in one or more of the five emotional intelligence competencies. It can serve as a reference so you know how you're progressing.
- A Way to Identify Your Needs
This book enables you to identify what you want to improve through the 17 Personal Goals in Chapter 2, and then shows you in the Personal Goals/Techniques Matrix which techniques you can use to experience improvement.
- Immediate Help for Your Specific Situations
We read books because we believe they will benefit us in some way. The Personal Goal Setting activity (Chapter 2) enables you to list specific situations you are experiencing in which the techniques can be used to help you immediately.
- "Doing," Not Just "Knowing"
One of the most beneficial learnings from studies and applications of instructional design (training) principles is the need to ask the right questions. In this case the first question is, "What do you want to be able to do as a result of reading and using this book?" The second question then follows, "What is the minimum content you need to know in order to do it?" Smart Emotions concentrates on teaching you techniques ("Doing") and provides only the amount of "Knowing" material required for you to effectively put the "Doing" into practice. This is an efficient and caring approach to increasing your emotional intelligence (EI) skills.
- Examples of Real Business Situations
Near the beginning of the section for each technique in Chapter 3 is a listing of typical situations where that technique could effectively be utilized. This will make it easy for you to see when a technique is appropriate to your needs. The participant stories and comments in Chapter 4 provide additional specific, real situations to help you learn how others have used the techniques.
- Practice Pages and Samples
Using the practice pages and reading the samples enables you to focus, relate, and connect with the material. All the practice pages are focused on helping you identify and relate to your own actual situations and experiences.
- Coaching
Thousands of face-to-face and phone-coaching sessions have been analyzed to identify the typical difficulties people experience in applying each of the techniques. At the end of the section for each technique are listed, in table format, typical difficulties and suggested solutions that have proven to be helpful in that specific area.
- How Others Have Benefitted
It's helpful to know how people like you have used and benefitted from these techniques. Included in this book are four resources that will bring the techniques and their application to life:
- Situations in which clients have used the techniques: see the beginning of each technique
- Illustrative stories
- Benefits listed by technique or personal goal
- Results data
- Free Resources
Weekly email. It is important to be supported as you learn and apply the techniques. You may choose to receive a free, weekly email reminder from our office. These emails contain a short reminder to use one technique each week, along with a positive inspirational quote. They do not contain any "marketing" material. People often tell us these reminders are the only positive email they ever receive!
Reminder stickers help you remember to use what you have learned. Download an Acrobat PDF file of reminder stickers from our web site and print the file on a standard sheet of 1" x 2" adhesive labels. These stickers are a simple, low-tech way to increase your likelihood of remembering to use the techniques.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Byron Stock has taught applied emotional intelligence skill-building techniques to people in business and government for 11 years. He pioneered a model for emotional-intelligence skill-building that combines classroom training with personalized coaching, ensuring each person develops sustainable skills relevant to his or her work and personal life. Byron calls himself a "recovering engineer." He has 25 years of experience in human performance improvement and leadership development. He has help positions in Manufacturing, Engineering, Design Engineering, Research and Engineering, Human Resources, Corporate Education, and Management and Leadership Development in Fortune 500 corporations. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Xavier. He is the President of Byron Stock & Associates LLC, a firm specializing in applied emotional intelligence skill-building training and coaching.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS
 Literally life-changing! April 4, 2008
Reviewer: Janet Bieschke, Ed.D. (Plymouth, Wisconsin)
I can divide my world by the date I attended Byron's session and learned how to recognize and apply the techniques presented in this book. It was amazing. At the time, I had 106 offices to oversee, 1300 employees, complement reductions, challenging revenue/operating expenses/performance targets, a large active family, and I was obtaining my doctorate degree at Pepperdine University. My life was very full and more than a little challenging.
Applying the techniques in SMART EMOTIONS for Busy Business People provided me, a busy business person, with a sense of calm in the midst of many storms. It can do the same for you. Byron has written this book in the way he teaches his sessions - with the intent to connect to you as a reader and as a person who will greatly benefit from understanding and applying these techniques. The techniques are simple, practical, quick to apply, always available as personal and professional tools, and literally life-changing.
After 29 years in management and leadership, I attest that this is one book that should be a must for everyone who wants to accomplish aggressive goals while avoiding the many manifestations that stress can produce. Stay active, stay emotionally fresh and live well.
Buy this book, take his session and understand that you CAN have it all without paying the price of your emotional and physical health, your relationships, and your precious time.
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One of a kind!February 20, 2008
Reviewer: Esther Hopper (Portland, Oregon)
Imagine an author who begins his book by pointing out right up front what you don't have to read in order to reap the benefits of his time-proven program.
You don't need to tell Byron Stock you don't have time to study any "self-help-feel-good" book that promises smooth sailing in your career-at the cost of adding more obligations to your already crowded day. You can tell that he's experienced firsthand the pressures of "busy-ness" in his own work life and career. A leader of his own training company, he voices a genuine concern for sharing what has proved out in the countless lives he has influenced - just read some of the comments at the back of SMART EMOTIONS.
"I know you are beyond busy," he writes in his opening pages, "Is this book for you?" My answer is an unqualified Yes!
The author's engineering background shows in the skill with which the book is organized and presented. From the beginning, "Quick Information" offers a Decision Guide and Smart Emotions Map to direct you to the sections of the book that will be most helpful.
I came to SMART EMOTIONS with a mind completely uncluttered by any previous knowledge of Emotional Intelligence. Learning and practicing the techniques, exercises and stratagems, and successfully applying them under his gentle guidance, has inspired in me a desire to know more about the why's and what's of the field. I come back to the book again and again to discover more of the scientific and practical research. The findings constantly reinforce my own deeply sensed but often undefined and unsupported convictions about the connection between feelings and behavior. The passages about the power of the heart-more powerful than the brain!-to influence events in and around me are astounding.
I find myself saying "A-ha!" and "Why haven't I put it to work in my daily life before now?" Perhaps I needed the sensitive, understanding and impressively knowledgeable guidance of a master of the techniques. And, the reassurance of the rock-solid, valid scientific basis that underlies the techniques. All this I found in SMART EMOTIONS.
Whether you are a busy business person or a busier-than-busy housewife, parent, caretaker or street cleaner, I highly recommend that you just open the cover of this book and skim through the opening pages and then learn and practice the techiques. You'll be glad you did.
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This book will improve the quality of your life. February 27, 2008
Reviewer: Elizabeth Smith (Chapin, South Carolina)
Most of us are so busy working, raising families, and paying bills that we never find the time to learn how to reduce our stress. This book reviews the science of using our hearts to find balance. After practicing the techniques, you will see a HUGE difference in the way you approach solving problems, making decisions, and dealing with the relationships in your life. I'm going to give it four stars, simply because I have no idea what it takes to get five. This book is awesome!
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My first reaction, upon reading SMART EMOTIONS was "Wow!" February 21, 2008
Reviewer: Joanne Reid, JReid Consulting (Canada)
My first reaction, upon reading SMART EMOTIONS was "Wow!" Now I need to tell you why. First, such a practical resource is needed for our businesses, our schools and hospitals and our families. We require more emotionally intelligent people and organizations who can demonstrate the agility needed for the pace of change and the resilience to thrive in its disruptiveness. Secondly, the information and techniques provided here will help us make the changes we want to make to succeed in our personal and professional lives.
Why would we pick up SMART EMOTIONS? We all want to focus and think more clearly, make better decisions, improve our performance and productivity and enhance our creativity. We want to strengthen our relationships through more effective communication, collaboration and conflict resolution. We want to be stronger coaches and team players. To do all this, we need to be healthier and more balanced mentally, physically and emotionally. The link between personal emotional wellbeing and business success is well proven.
SMART EMOTIONS is for leaders, managers, consultants, teachers, coaches and parents...because fundamental skills and abilities underlie all these roles. SMART EMOTIONS is also for individuals, personally and professionally, and for teams and organization...for anyone trying to make a difference in their work and family lives.
What's in this book? One can learn about the science underlying resilient, agile performance and learning. The "it" of EQ is fully defined. And applications and results from clients demonstrate the positive outcomes available to all who want to invest time and practice. Emotional Competence - applied EQ - is explored. Helpful, easily learned, immediately applicable techniques and processes help people build, strengthen and apply the EQ competencies. One learns and applies while reading this self-study guide.
What sets SMART EMOTIONS apart? The author has written as he talks...a compliment for someone named repeatedly as the top presenter at a major U.S. conference. He shows respect for the reader's time by including only what's core in strengthening individual EQ competencies. Organizational resilience and agility starts with emotionally smart individuals. And, as Goleman says, "it's contagious!" He also makes it easy for readers to navigate and focus on what they most need. (Mager would approve!) Most importantly, this resource helps people and teams bridge the "know-do gap" with which my clients frequently struggle. As one of them said, "it's really about 'being and doing better.'"
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