Do you ever wonder what the Mantra of success behind high performance individual is?
Do you think it’s the Cognitive Power? Sky-scraping inflate skills? Emotional capability?
So lets get to know the logic behind…
Various psychologist and research analysts found that it's not just a matter of developing "cognitive power" to succeed. Whether one considers the counsellor assisting a person experiencing feelings of depression, the sports therapist coaching an athlete to reach peak performance, or the business coach assisting an executive struggling to rebound from a major financial set-back, the evidence is clear- emotions play a major part in human performance that is distinct and separate from the individual's cognitive or physical ability. The research of neuroscientists such as Joseph Le Doux has substantiated the experience of practitioners that the emotional system of the brain acts independent from the neocorter, or logic system.
Le Doux's research indicates that some emotional reactions and emotional memories are formed without any conscious, cognitive participation. An excellent review of the research findings are detailed in Daniel Goleman's books on Emotional Intelligence. Goleman regards the two distinct mental functions as: the logical factual system and the emotional feeling system. He describes how reason originally freed people from the influence of emotion that would sometimes sway their logic in making sound judgments.
A new paradigm suggests that a more harmonized head and heart partnership is needed to balance human nature and logic. When combining the experience of psychologists and the research of neuroscientists the answer to the question regarding what limits performance is very clear. What stops people from doing what they already know how to do, is their failure to recognize the impact that emotions have on their actions. This is especially true when there is a failure to apply skills and knowledge under challenging or stress provoking situations.
This performance problem points out the need for business educators and instructors to learn how to assist individuals in developing emotional intelligence. Developing Emotional Intelligence requires a very different learning methodology than is used to train for product or technical knowledge.
