Emotional Intelligence: How Barbados can participate in a global phenomenon which assists both Public and Private sector all around the world

by AirBourne / May 24th, 2011

• Overview of Emotional Intelligence

The systematic study of emotional intelligence is often dated to the early 1990s, when scientific articles suggested that there existed an unrecognized but important human mental ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to enhance thought.

Journalistic accounts of emotional intelligence in books and magazines of the mid-1990s explained the concept to an interested public — but not without introducing some crucial inaccuracies. Moreover, much has been learned about emotional intelligence since those early writings.

During the 13th Annual Awards, the Central Bank also took time to respect their Stars who made EI shine for all to wish to duplicate

This is a policy which until the other night, I had no idea the Central Bank of Barbados adopted. According to Kieva Cadogan, who’s an Examiner for the Bank Supervision Department, there are many at the Tom Adams Financial Centre in Church Village who not only emulate EI but received acknowledgement at the recent Annual Awards Ceremony started in 1998 under then Governor Dr Marion Williams {CLICK ON FOLLOWING LINK FOR FULL AUDIO};-

Gloria Oxley and Linel Franklin were some of the Admin crew who exhibited EI with ensuring Press Conferences always were spot on, according to Ms Cadogan

Ms Cadogan also took time to acknowledge the Technical teams who used EI to improve the Central Bank’s function {CLICK ON FOLLOWING LINK FOR FULL AUDIO};-

Kirk Beckford and Ronald Grant were part of the Technical teams who used EI to guarantee the bank is running at top notch

You may be surprised at which overseas companies use EI to boost their productivity {CLICK ON FOLLOWING LINK FOR FULL AUDIO};-

Medical Service group Pfizer, Basketball team Orlando Magic, RBC which also operates in Barbados and the US Army are some the organisations which actively employ EI as part of their success

Kieva Cadogan - Examiner: Bank Supervision, Central Bank of Barbados

What is expected from practitioners of EI? {CLICK ON FOLLOWING LINK FOR FULL AUDIO};-

EI is the capacity to reason about emotions, and of emotions to enhance thinking. It includes the abilities to accurately perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth.