Why Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a learned ability to identify, experience, understand and express human emotions in healthy and productive ways. Emotional intelligence skills are primary factors of motivation and the gateway to lifelong learning and high levels of achievement.

Research world wide indicates that emotional intelligence skills are essential to all learning. Unlike IQ, EQ can be developed, strengthened and enhanced throughout one's lifetime. When EQ is improved, it can have immediate benefits to one's health, one's education, one's relationships and one's work.  It has been said that 15% of one’s success is based on IQ and 85% of one’s success in life is based on EQ.

 EQ is the most important variable in physical health, personal achievement, and career success. EQ is a learned ability and requires an intentional learning process that is personally meaningful.  EQ consists of specific skills that can be easily assessed, taught and learned.

The foundation and instructional frameworks of this program are based on the research and work of Dr. Darwin Nelson and Dr. Gary Low.  For over 25 years they have studied, researched, and worked with the emotional and personal skills essential for achievement, career success, and a health orientation to life. 

At the Alternative Learning Lane we are proud to offer a behavior program that helps the student build a solid foundation for life.  Personal Responsibility and the Success Profiler build and strengthen a person's EQ which ultimately increases their success in life.

 

Why Personal Responsibility?

Nothing is more important to personal success than the ability to set, manage, and achieve personal goals. This new assessment and skill enhancement system focuses on core skills related to personal responsibility.

Personal Responsibility puts the emphasis where it belongs, on the individual. The Personal Responsibility program puts the focus on the ability to set clear, attainable goals and then to manage oneself to the successful completion of these goals. This program helps users sort through how well they accept responsibility for their own actions-whether they are successful or not. When failure occurs, do people in your organization or program procrastinate, blame others, and then engage in victim thinking? If they do, then our Personal Responsibility program will help them overcome these self-defeating behaviors and teach them the skills of personal responsibility.

The Personal Responsibility program consists of assessment and skill enhancement components.  The core assessment is the Personal Responsibility Map which focuses on twelve core skills related to personal responsibility in setting and achieving academic and career goals.  The system also contains the Personal Responsibility Survey which is a 360-degree assessment (an assessment done by others who know the individual).  The Personal Responsibility Map and Personal Responsibility Survey provide scale-specific measures of behaviors related to high achievement and personal well being.

 

Learned skills, if practiced, become habits in 21 days.

 

Personal Responsibility-Skill Enhancements

Goal Achievement Potential

·  Goal Setting—having clear, specific, written goals or objectives with plans and target dates for reaching them.

·  Self-Efficacy—a view of possibilities or the extent to which people’s goals are internally viewed as within their possibilities, given their individual knowledge, skills and environments.

· Values Congruence-having a healthy balance between personal values, beliefs and desired goals.

· Achievement Drive-the level of desire, effort and commitment exerted toward individual goals.

· Supportive Environment-the extent to which friends, family or peers value high achievement and positively encourage people in their goals.

· Self-Esteem-the degree to which people have confidence in and value them selves and feel worthy to enjoy goal achievement.

Self-Management Related to Personal Responsibility

· Self-Control-the ability and discipline to handle personal feelings and emotions in difficult life circumstances.

· Self-Management-the ability and discipline to manage personal time, talents and abilities and focus these on clear objectives.

· Problem-Solving-the ability and willingness to objectively work through road blocks and use creative thinking skills to arrive at desirable goal solutions.

· Resiliency-the ability to proactively work through processes and activities and cause bottom-line results to happen.

· Self-Improvement-the degree to which people are open to change and to learning, and are constantly looking for ways to improve themselves.

· Personal Responsibility-the level of individual commitment people are willing to make in setting clear goals and then assuming full responsibility for their achievement.

Why the Success Profiler?

Work Habits for a Changing Economy

One thing for certain in this new digital economy is change.  There are the core enabling skills needed for an individual to succeed in today’s fast-paced, change-oriented school or workplace.  These key factors are also related to social/emotional learning and are the core skills in the Success Profiler.  Research shows that employers place a premium on an employees’ abilities to learn new skills, to lead others, to function independently, and yet to work as part of a team to accomplish a common goal and to accept and thrive with constant change.  These new workplace social/emotional skills will put a premium on an individuals ability to:

• Possess feelings of self-worth—Self-Esteem

• Be assertive—Interpersonal Assertion

• Possess awareness of others—Interpersonal Awareness

• Be empathetic—Empathy

• Maintain high motivation—Drive Strength/Motivation

• Possesses decision-making skills—Decision Making

• Manage time efficiently—Time Management

• Sell others on an idea—Sales Orientation/Leadership

• Commit to an activity or project—Commitment Ethic

• Manage stress—Stress Management

• Stay Healthy—Physical Wellness

• Avoid aggression—Interpersonal Aggression

• Avoid deference—Interpersonal Deference

• Avoid resistance to change—Change Orientation

These are the core enabling skills needed for an individual to succeed in today’s fast-paced, change-oriented workplace.  These key factors are also related to social/emotional learning and are the core skills in the Success Profiler.