Creative & Emotional Intelligence

The Intelligence Cycle

The two main Intelligences JOLT™ focuses on are your Creative and Emotional Intelligence.

Stage 1: Self Awareness

All Multiple Intelligence Cycles start at Self-Awareness. You cannot develop an area of your life if you're unaware of where you are at that moment. A map is only useful when you know where you're starting from. From awareness comes choice. You can either do something about it or ignore the issue.

Stage 2: Self Management

As a result of making a choice, you have entered the next stage of the cycle. Self Management answers the question how are you managing your choice? Ignoring the issue is still a form of management. Once aware, most people choose to do something about it.

Stage 3: Social Awareness

Once you are able to manage yourself then you develop Social Awarenss. You have the ability to see the same thing in other people. You become other-conscious rather than just self-conscious.

Stage 4: Relationship Management

When you are other-conscious, you are then in a much better position to manage other people.

Example:

If you become aware that you interrupt people and finish their sentences for them then you can choose to do something about it. You may decide to refrain from doing this in meetings. Then you will become aware of other people who do this and will be able to manage this issue with them in a more resourceful method because of your own self management. This has improved your Emotional Intelligence and will impact all your relationships whether they are intimate, family or work relationships.

Creative Intelligence

Creative Intelligence is having the knowledge and strategies to manage your current capabilities of mind and body towards developing newness in yourself and in that of others.

To achieve Creative Intelligence involves having an open mind that is curious enough to not only question what exists but to imagine what doesn't.

Most of all, Creative Intelligence lies within the doing rather than just having the knowledge.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is having the knowledge and skill to perceive, assess and positively influence your own and other people's emotions.

Success in life largely comes down to how well you manage your emotions and those around us.