What is Emotional Intelligence, and why does everyone keep talking about it? In this episode Nick and Chris head into soft skills territory to discuss Emotional Intelligence and why it's one of the most important skills an instructor needs to have. This episode focuses on defining emotional intelligence in relationship to snowboard and ski instruction. Next week's episode will follow up with a discussion on how to develop your emotional intelligence skills.

The snowboard podcast All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Snowboarding is a weekly podcast with AASI Snowboard National Team Members Nick Alfieri and Chris Rogers. Tune in each week as we discuss snowboarding, snowsports instruction, instructor certification, and how, well, basically, we learned everything we need to know from snowboarding!