The Institute for Applied Emotional Intelligence
We are currently going through the transition to becoming a Chartered Institute and with that comes a change to our name. In the future we will be called the Institute for Applied Emotional Intelligence. To see more details of the changes read Amanda Knight's article from the September Ezine. In the coming weeks we will be refreshing the website to reflect all the changes.
The Centre for Applied Emotional Intelligence (CAEI) is the representative body for professionally qualified Emotional Intelligence practitioners in the UK and Europe. The CAEI is committed to promoting ethical practice in the application of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace through a stringent Code of Ethics and a recognisable practitioner qualification − the only one of its kind that we are aware of in the world.
The CAEI's unique approach to EI − AppliedEI™ − is founded on the belief that EI is changeable and developable because our emotional intelligence is underpinned by our fundamental attitudes, the attitudes we have towards ourselves and towards others.
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Our Mission
The CAEI promotes high performance and personal success through:- learning to manage your self and your personality effectively
- learning to manage your relationships with others effectively
- acceptance of self and others
We facilitate this with the effective assessment and development of emotional intelligence through our flexible range of EI development products provided by our community of highly qualified EI practitioners.
Our model of emotional intelligence differs from many others.
Here are the outstanding features of our approach.
Emotional intelligence is a predictor of performance and success
- High emotional intelligence leads to effective self management and
effective relationship management, which in turn lead to high performance
and personal success.
- High emotional intelligence is demonstrated by the fundamental underlying attitude of acceptance of self and others which enables effective self and relationship management.
There is no quick fix for high performance and personal success
- EI development involves changing attitudes and habits as well as
acquiring knowledge and skills, so it does take time and commitment
to be sustained. It must therefore be seen as a medium-term investment
by the organisation and by the individual - but the rewards
for both are significant.
- All aspects of emotional intelligence are changeable and developable, and some changes can be immediate. High performance and personal success are therefore achievable goals both for individuals and organisations. There will often be some short-term benefits, but for sustainable change, development over time is needed.
EI development needs to be individual-oriented
- Because different people have different interferences which hinder
their acting with emotional intelligence, the development of emotional
intelligence needs to be individual-oriented. It needs to begin with
the measurement of the individual's current awareness and competence
in each of the aspects of emotional intelligence.
- Having assessed current levels of EI, development programmes need to develop specific areas which will strengthen self and relationship management. At the same time, they need to pay attention to the development of emotionally intelligent attitudes and habits.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence (EI) first came to the world's attention in the mid 1990s with Dan Goleman's groundbreaking books 'Emotional Intelligence' and 'Working with Emotional Intelligence' - Goleman highlighted the importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace, showing how it can be used to predict performance and to identify high achievers.
We find that most people have the potential to behave with emotional intelligence, but that so much of the time we do not, because of our interferences - internal interferences mostly resulting from false beliefs and limiting habits adopted (for what were then good reasons) in childhood, and retained, unwittingly, in adulthood. The process of enabling someone to develop their emotional intelligence therefore consists in helping them to identify and dismantle, or at least to learn to manage, these interferences.
So, for us, emotional intelligence is not a synonym for personality; it is about how we manage our personality.
In order to act with emotional intelligence you need:- a complex set of attitudes and skills