Emotional Self-Management Skill

An Emotional Self-Management Skill is an intelligent emotional agent agency skill to manage their emotions.

• Context:
  • They can (typically) be aware of their Emotions.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Emotional Blindness.
• See: Self-Awareness, Empathy Skill, Emotional Intelligence.

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References

2015

• Daniel Goleman. (2015). “How to Be Emotionally Intelligent.” In: The New York Times.
  • ... He (Daniel Goleman) shares his short list of the competencies.
    1. SELF-MANAGEMENT.
       • Resilience: You stay calm under pressure and recover quickly from upsets. You don’t brood or panic. In a crisis, people look to the leader for reassurance; if the leader is calm, they can be, too.
       • Emotional balance: You keep any distressful feelings in check — instead of blowing up at people, you let them know what’s wrong and what the solution is.
       • Self-motivation: You keep moving toward distant goals despite setbacks.

2012

• http://www.free-management-ebooks.com/faqpp/developing-03.htm
  • QUOTE: Self-management involves using what you know about your emotions to manage them in such a way as to generate positive interactions with others and motivate yourself in all situations. The very act of acknowledging the fact that you are feeling a negative emotion goes a long way to preventing you from losing control of your own behavior.

     EQ self-management is critical for a manager because no one wants to work for someone who is not in control of themselves and whose reactions depend on their prevailing mood.

1998

• (McCraty et al., 1998) ⇒ Rollin McCraty, Bob Barrios-Choplin, Deborah Rozman, Mike Atkinson, and Alan D. Watkins. (1998). “The Impact of a New Emotional Self-management Program on Stress, Emotions, Heart Rate Variability, DHEA and Cortisol." Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 33, no. 2

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