G632 E.Q. Librium; Unleash the power of your emotional intelligence a proven path to career success

Title of the book:E.Q. Librium; Unleash the power of your emotional intelligence a proven path to career success

Author: Yvette Bethel

Publisher: Organizational Soul

Publishing Date: 2011

ISBN: 978-0-578-08360-5

Summary:

E.Q. Librium: Unleash the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence; A Proven Path to Career Success is a collection of practical, proven strategies you can use to improve your emotional intelligence at work by managing your emotions and responses. This book will help you to: Become emotionally self-aware; manage your emotions; diffuse emotionally charged situations; strengthen your leadership skills, build healthy work relationships; and enhance your performance.

Author Info:
(From back of the book)

An author, speaker, HR consultant, leadership coach, trainer and columnist, Yvette Bethel possesses the abiity to ignite the chain reaction necessary to bring about transformation. A Fullbright Scholar with an MBA, Bethel relies on her cumulative experience that spans more than two decades

Personal Opinion:

Unfortunately this book came at the wrong time for me, and, I have to admit, frightened me a lot due to the depiction of office politics, favoritism and other things. A lot of things that the author talked about flew quite a bit over my head and made me feel grateful that I didn't work in an office environment. What else happened at the time I began to read the book is the fact that due to circumstances beyond my control, I gave a two weeks notice and just yesterday had my last day of work, so yes, poor timing. I imagine that in some ways the book can be applied to ordinary workers, but the primary target are directors and managers. What I did find very valuable and what I wished that the author could have focused more on are the multi-generations working in the same place, namely Generation X and Y. (Are Millenials same as Generaton Y?) as well as perhaps cultural sensitivity training or how to provide multicultural seminars at work, and how to work with people who have different backgrounds than we do, after all the world is getting smaller day by day.

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3 out of 5
(0: Stay away unless a masochist 1: Good for insomnia 2: Horrible but readable; 3: Readable and quickly forgettable, 4: Good, enjoyable 5: Buy it, keep it and never let it go.)