Goleman Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach Renee Adams on ”Developing EI Skills Early to Guarantee Future Success”

Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for episode #151 with certified Goleman Emotional Intelligence coach, Renée Adams. Watch the interview on YouTube.https://youtu.be/aavQGiAAXo8 Download 3 FREE EQ Guides from Renee's website FREE EQ Guides https://hoppypoppie.com/guide-sign-up/  See past episodes here https://www.achieveit360.com/episodes/  On this episode you will learn: ✔︎ Why Renee sees the importance of teaching EI to young children and their parents as critical work. ✔︎ What are the Emotional Intelligence Competencies that the Goleman Training focuses on. ✔︎ What's missing from today's corporate environments? ✔︎ EI strategies that parents can use immediately to reduce stress while at the same time supporting your child at home or in the classroom.   Renée Adams[i] is a children’s book author, writing books that teach children and parents foundational Emotional Intelligence skills, including being able to identify and name their emotions. We have seen the importance of this skill that started with our interview #28[ii] with Dr. Daniel Siegel who talks about the importance of naming an emotion to tame it[iii] and then again with the Founding Director of Yale’s Center for Emotional Intelligence, Marc Brackett on episode #22[iv] with his book, Permission to Feel. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of our listeners, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies in our schools, sports, and the workplace with ideas that we can all use, understand and implement immediately.   When I was introduced to Renée Adams, I saw her background as a Certified Goleman Emotional Intelligence[v] coach, I immediately contacted her to see if I could pick her brain on many questions that I am asked myself in the area of Emotional Intelligence. Why not ask an expert when I have the chance.   Let’s meet Renée Adams.   Welcome Renée, thank you for coming on the podcast today to speak with me.   Are you still located in Bolder, CO? I almost considered moving to CO from Toronto in the late 1990s, since it was the Columbine tragedy that caused me to move to the US back then. I picked AZ because I really struggled with the altitude in CO.   Q1:  I did watch some of your other podcasts to learn more about why you started this work centered around Emotional Intelligence, and I will link these episodes in the show notes, but did wonder at what point in your career did you see the importance of teaching Emotional Intelligence to children and parents? Where was the missing link?   Q2: I cover 6 social and emotional competencies on this podcast (Mindset, Decision-Making, Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Self-Regulated Learning/Self-Management, and Relationship Skills) as they closely mirror www.casel.org’s SEL competencies. Can you explain the competencies that were important in your Goleman Certification Program, and maybe how you would teach them to a parent or child? (Self-awareness, self-management, others awareness, relationship management).     Q3: When I first launched this podcast, I interviewed my husband on episode #1 on “The Importance of Setting Up an SEL Program in Your School, or Emotional Intelligence Training Program in Your Workplace.”[vi] And it’s funny thinking about it now because he had just got home from traveling and I handed him a list of questions and said “Can you answer these and speak into the mic?” It was a memorable launch to the podcast. Why do you think it’s so important to teach these skills at an early age and what skills do you think are missing from today’s corporate environments?     Q4: So growing up, we didn’t talk about our emotions in my home. If I ever cried at all, my Dad would yell at me because he hated to see emotion. And I’m the type that wears my emotions on my sleeve. I couldn’t hide them, not even when I knew I’d get a kick in the behind if I ever