The Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA): Self is your personal instrument to understanding and increasing your emotional intelligence Developed in partnership with MHS (the same company who brought you the EQ-i), The EISA: Self is a 50-item assessment that measures EI on 5 scales: Perceiving, Managing, Decision Making, Achieving, and Influencing. The EISA: Self will help you better understand how emotional and social skills impact your performance and how you can strengthen your effectiveness by using these skills successfully. It will also help you: Discover the major components of emotional intelligence Recognize the behaviors and characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person Identify areas where you can apply emotional intelligence Evaluate your own emotional strengths and opportunities for growth
Your Personal Guide to Understanding and Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence This hands-on workbook is your companion to the dynamic Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) workshop in which you will be given the opportunity to measure your skills in five key areas—Perceiving, Managing, Decision Making, Achieving, and Influencing. These are the key areas that most influence personal performance. Once you have completed the 50-item self and 360° assessments, the EISA workbook will help you better understand how emotional and social skills impact your performance and how you can strengthen your effectiveness by using these skills successfully. The EISA participant workbook will also help you: Discover the major components of emotional intelligence Recognize the behaviors and characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person Identify areas where you can apply emotional intelligence Evaluate your own emotional strengths and opportunities for growth Generate action steps for improving your emotional and social abilities that will lead to success
This collection looks at the post–network television industry’s heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling—or wired TV—that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the introduction of broadband into the majority of homes and the proliferation of popular, participatory Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Contributors address a wide range of issues, from the networks’ sporadic efforts to engage fans using transmedia storytelling to the production inefficiencies that continue to dog network television to the impact of multimedia convergence and multinational, corporate conglomeration on entrepreneurial creativity. With essays from such top scholars as Henry Jenkins, John T. Caldwell, and Jonathan Gray and from new and exciting voices emerging in this field, Wired TV elucidates the myriad new digital threats and the equal number of digital opportunities that have become part and parcel of today’s post-network era. Readers will quickly recognize the familiar television franchises on which the contributors focus— including Lost, The Office, Entourage, Battlestar Gallactica, The L Word, and Heroes—in order to reveal their impact on an industry in transition. While it is not easy for vast bureaucracies to change course, executives from key network divisions engaged in an unprecedented period of innovation and collaboration with four important groups: members of the Hollywood creative community who wanted to expand television’s storytelling worlds and marketing capabilities by incorporating social media; members of the Silicon Valley tech community who were keen to rethink television distribution for the digital era; members of the Madison Avenue advertising community who were eager to rethink ad-supported content; and fans who were enthusiastic and willing to use social media story extensions to proselytize on behalf of a favorite network series. In the aftermath of the lengthy Writers Guild of America strike of 2007/2008, the networks clamped down on such collaborations and began to reclaim control over their operations, locking themselves back into an aging system of interconnected bureaucracies, entrenched hierarchies, and traditional partners from the past. What’s next for the future of the television industry? Stay tuned—or at least online. Contributors: Vincent Brook, Will Brooker, John T. Caldwell, M. J. Clarke, Jonathan Gray, Henry Jenkins, Derek Johnson, Robert V. Kozinets, Denise Mann, Katynka Z. Martínez, and Julie Levin Russo
The title of Beyond the Line refers to the imaginary "Line" drawn between North and South, a division established by the Peace Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559. This is an early modern time and Eurocentric construction, according to which the southern oceanic world has long been taken as symbol of expansionist philosophies and practices. An obvious motivation for changing this "Line" division is the growing influence of the "Global South" in the contemporary economic and political setting. However, another motivation for changing opinions in regard to the "Line" is equally important. We observe an emergent consciousness of the pivotal role of the oceanic world for human life. This requires the reformulation of former views and raises numerous questions. A diversity of connections comes to the mind, which demands the composition of a catalogue of case studies with an oceanic horizon. Through this operation, different problems are being linked together. Which problems encounter historians with their research on fishes in the archives? How to trace records about pirates of non-European descent in the Indian Ocean? Which role play the Oceans as mediators for labor migrations, not only of the Black Atlantic but also of people moving from Asia to Africa and vice versa? What do we know about workers on the oceans and their routes? When considering oceans as "contact zones," with which criteria can their influence in different literary texts be analyzed? Is it possible to study nationalisms taking into account these transoceanic relationships? And how do artists address these questions in their use of the media? Against the background of this catalogue of oceanic questions, "old" stories are told anew. Sometimes, their cultural stereotypes are recycled to criticize political and social situations. Or, in other cases, they are adopted for elaborating alternative options. In this sense, the contributions concentrate on countries like India, Kenya, Angola, or Brazil and cover different academic fields. A variety of objects and situations are explored, which have been and still are determinant for the construction of cultural narratives in view of the modified relationship with the geographically southern oceanic regions.
Keep better track of your money with this simple to follow journal. Each page has a section for any monies you receive and a section for any monies paid out. Then in the bottom section complete the totals and do the math. The book has 53 pages ready to be filled in so you can track your money all year long plus a week.See if you are spending more than you should or see if you have enough left over to save a bit each week?
Wether you're learning to code or been coding for years this journal will help you keep track of code you may want to use again and again. Ideal for a beginner who is trying to learn certain functions and methods or if you are following tutorials and would like to note the code down. Each page gives you chance to put in a language you are coding in and version, also three separate sections for comments, the code and for any update changes. There is also a front index section which you can reference the function making it easier to find at a later date.
The intense psychological portrait of a hitman—the anti-Jason Bourne—as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it. "A natural killer," his mentor—a middleman named Vespucci—said he was. He proved it with his first professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston, executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her own courthouse. He's proved his merit often, usually with a Glock semiautomatic, but he's improvised too, with his bare hands, the heel of a shoe, knives, even a sewing machine. He is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself Columbus. It's the name Vespucci gave him, ten years ago, when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients, marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute who became dangerously involved back in the seventies with an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising star in the Democratic Party. The magnetic Abe Mann has since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently running for the Democratic nomination in an exhausting presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind. But as he pieces together his past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark, the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins unraveling violently around him.
Knowledge is power. This book will provide you with knowledge about essential skills you use every day at your workplace, with your colleagues, with your clients and at home with your family. EQ: Maximize Your Emotional Intelligence is your key to unlock career and personal success. When people better understand themselves and others, they're able to do better work, they're happier doing it, and they're able to foster more winning outcomes in the workplace. As such, the emotionally intelligent person makes a superior customer service representative, deal-closer, team leader, team player and manager. The emotionally intelligent person handles stress more easily; makes decisions quickly and capably; is goal oriented; manages their emotions well; and can adapt to and manage change. How is this achieved? With the easy-to-use self-assessment tool in this book, you can determine what your strengths and weaknesses are in terms of your emotional skills makeup. Simply go online to access the Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment (EISA) using the code in the book. Answer the questions and in minutes you will receive a report that will show you what your strengths and weaknesses are in the critical 5 Factors that comprise emotional intelligence. Based on your scores in the 5 factors--1) Perceiving, 2) Managing, 3) Decision Making, 4) Achieving, and 5) Influencing-you'll be able to begin developing your strengths in appropriate core areas through the strategies and tips provided in the book. Informative, entertaining and loaded with true stories of those who have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and others who, while equally skilled have not met with success, EQ: Maximize Your Emotional Intelligence holds the promise of a more fulfilled, rewarding and fun life. Open this book and you will open the door on a new future.
The facilitator package comprises the 51-item, self-assessed Emotional Intelligence Skills Inventory (EQSi) and a step-by-step guide for administering the assessment. The package offers an overview of emotional intelligence, reliability and validity data for the assessment, and suggestions on using and interpreting the feedback reports. EQSi measures emotional intelligence on five major scales: People Skills, Change Capacity/Resilience, Motivation, Self-Awareness, and Stress Tolerance. It is based on the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQi), the first American Psychology Association-endorsed measure of Emotional Intelligence. EQSi provides human resource professionals, trainers, and coaches with a statistically proven and reliable measure of skills in the five areas that research has shown most influence personal performance at work.
An e-original omnibus of three suspense novels by the Barry Award-nominated novelist and co-screenwriter of Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and The Double. He calls himself Columbus. His real name never meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father, an earnest young congressman and rising star in the Democratic Party named Abe Mann, or his mother, a prostitute whose involvement with Mann would prove dangerous. All Columbus cares about is his next target. A hit man who quickly made a name for himself as one of the best in his profession, you can be sure he'll fulfill whatever contract's been given him. Even if those who put out the hit have other plans in mind. In THE COLUMBUS TRILOGY, the first three novels by Barry Award-nominated author Derek Haas, Columbus squares off against the shadow of his father, Czech crime lords, drug dealers, a prostitution ring, and more, in three acclaimed suspense novels by a rising master of the genre.
Proceedings of the 20th annual conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, held at the University of Adelaide in December 2009. Papers were presented by Australian and international delegates. The conference was focused on the engineering curriculum in higher education.
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