My Takeaway from LinkedIn’s course, “Developing Your Emotional Intelligence”

Ayesha Khan
2 min readJul 2, 2020

I just finished a course on the LinkedIn Learning platform called, “Developing your Emotional Intelligence” by Gemma Leigh Roberts. I highly recommend this to college students before entering the workplace or even an internship.

There were two main points that I took away from this course which was self-awareness and disruptive thinking.

  • Self-awareness
  • Disruptive Thinking

Self-Awareness

In self-awareness, Roberts talks about knowing yourself very well. This means that you should know what you like and dislike, and how that will play a role in the environment you are working in.

Knowing what triggers you, and what upsets you will help you maintain relationships in the future.

People may speak to you in a louder tone than what you are used to and this may shock you, but you need to acknowledge that this type of tone shocks you and communicate with that person about this.

Instead of holding it in, know yourself and know that this type of tone causes you to fluster and ask the other person to change or tell them how that makes you feel.

Disruptive Thinking

This is when you disrupt your chain of thoughts into thinking from another perspective than what you usually think of.

Say Amanda is a coworker who always cut you off while you are speaking in meetings. You may think that Amanda is a rude person and doesn’t think what you have to say is valid or important and therefore is cutting you off.

Instead, change that perspective and come up with different ideas on why she may be cutting you off. Maybe she’s just nervous and does not want to forget what she is saying and blurts it out before she forgets. Also, she doesn’t just cut you off, she cuts off a lot of other people at work.

Amanda may not even notice that she is cutting you off during meetings and therefore, you may privately point it out to her.

This will help you from getting upset at Amanda and holding negative feelings towards her.

Disrupting your thoughts, changing your perspective, and communicating will help you find a solution where both you and Amanda can thrive in the workplace.

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