Understanding and practicing emotional intelligence is an important skill for everyone to master. Being able to control emotions and using them to benefit yourself as well as others is the goal. What are the steps we can take to make this goal attainable? Educational Specialist, Kris Macc (Macchiarola), explains why emotional and social skills should be taught at an early age and how you can develop strong relationships with these powerful skills.

* – The benefits of teaching emotional and social skills in the school system* – Why separating emotions from work is a negative* – Leveraging emotions to inspire others* – Creating a psychologically safe environment* – Understanding personality traits and communication style preferences* – How self-reflecting on emotions keeps us in check* – Why being the lead character in your life is important* – We are more alike, than we are different* – Creating mutually beneficial relationships* – It’s ok to be vulnerable

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https://kmaccsolutions.com

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Todd: (05:09)So Kris, tell us, tell us a little bit about your why. Like what is drawing you and what has drawn you to your profession recently and over your whole life. What is the reason you do what you do? 

Kris: (05:40)Well, I mean, we have to really go back to, it’s probably been about 20 years where I started as a psychologist for the school systems. And at that point I was exposed to emotional intelligence for the first time. But from a student and teacher perspective, we used to do train the trainer back then and we would go around the entire school faculties and teach them the emotional and social skills that they could teach the students because we knew that there were fewer behavior problems, lower absentee rates, and they did better academically. And so fast forward into my career in corporate where I spent close to 20 years and I was exposed to emotional intelligence from a business standpoint when I decided to go out on my own and thought about, all right, what are the things that I’m passionate about and how can I make a difference? Emotional intelligence and leadership development together were very much in my wheel house. And you know, I just seen that there is such a need with organizations and leaders that there are all these blind spots that exist. And it seems like people sometimes want to operate in silos, but that’s not realistic for the way that we work. And we don’t, uh, we don’t necessarily teach people these skills that they need to be successful at work. And if they didn’t get it at home, all of a sudden they’re put in these work environments they are working in teams, cross-functionally, matrix organizations and problems arise and they are not confronting them in a way that’s beneficial. You know, they, I like to say that they are politely being passive aggressive.