The Emotional Intelligence Activity Kit: 50 Easy and Effective Exercises for Building EQ

by Adele B. Lynn, Janele R. Lynn

Imagine what would happen if you could quickly elevate the EQ score of everyone in your organization. Profitability, retention, and customer satisfaction would soar! Studies prove that emotional intelligence—knowing how to manage emotions, empathize, build relationships, and more—drives performance. But how do you get naturally resistant people to practice new ways of thinking?

Trainers, coaches, and organizational development professionals can now break through and trigger lasting EQ improvements. The fifty original activities in The Emotional Intelligence Activity Kit help:

Promote introspection • Increase empathy • Improve social skills • Boost personal influence • Inspire purpose • Bring everyone on board • Make learning stick

From setup instructions to debriefing questions, these simple exercises are quick to deploy and target key areas that benefit most from EQ training: leadership, project management, customer service, teamwork, sales, and more.

Know-it-all bosses, overcompetitive colleagues, or leaders who rarely leave their offices—common EQ problems such as these damage not just camaraderie, but also results. Fix them fast, and create thriving, successful organizations.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2015

Reviews

[Sarah]

You know how most "activity" books have 5 good initiatives and the rest are trash? This book is the opposite. Certainly a few of them need tweaks for my context, but I was so excited after reading the library copy that I ordered it for myself AND suggested it to 3 people immediately. I'll try to remember to update my review once I use some of them with my high school students!

[Abby Epplett]

If your employees have plenty of extra time and not enough stress, this is a great way to change that. Lead people through a set of fifty exercises designed to make people unhappy and stop trusting each other, all in the name of teambuilding.

[Veerle]

Abandoned for now as these are explanations of exercises. Not very interesting to hear them described. Is more a book to browse through than anything else.