242: Develop Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation with Robin Hills

As managers, emotional intelligence plays an important role in how you interact with your team and make decisions. Being aware of your capabilities, motivations and emotions, and knowing how to act on them, enables you to connect with your colleagues and build a trusting relationship. High emotional intelligence enables managers to more easily accomplish those goals, helping both you and your people thrive at work. Today’s guest is Robin Hill. Robin is the director of Ei4Change, a company specializing in educational training, coaching and personal development focused around emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience. He has taught over 300,000 people in more than 195 countries how to build resilience, increased self-awareness and understanding of others. Robin and I talk about emotional intelligence. He breaks down the components of EQ, including how to better understand yourself so you can develop your emotional intelligence skill set. Members of the Modern Manager community get Robin’s ‘Working with Mindfulness’ Course, typically $49, for free. The ‘Working with Mindfulness’ course supports the development of a manager’s emotional intelligence by helping them to work more effectively with mindfulness. Get it when you join the Modern Manager community. Subscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and free mini-guides delivered to your inbox.    Read the related blog article: How Managers Can Build Their Emotional Intelligence Skill Set   KEEP UP WITH ROBIN Website: https://ei4change.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EI4Change/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ei4Change LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinhills/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ei4change/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBBxGskYxL0wnRfuyz_wHZA/feed   Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence is the ability to use your thoughts and emotions to make quality decisions and build relationships.  The five elements to emotional intelligence are self awareness, self regulation, empathy, communication, and motivation.