Social Intelligence: A Practical Guide to Social Intelligence: Communication Skills - Social Skills - Communication Theory
By Jonny Bell
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Social Intelligence Provides the Single Greatest Path to Reach Your Ultimate Potential.
With an enhanced social intelligence, you can live a vibrant, enhanced, and successful version of your life. You can live like the best version of yourself: with greater empathy, with social skills, and with a lifetime of positivity.
Do you know how to build the essential strength of social intelligence?
Essentially, social intelligence allows you to relate to everyone, in all environments, no matter the context of the conversation, who the people are, or the reason you’re all together. With social intelligence, you are able to create an environment of understanding when you speak to everyone. You are further able to understand how people will respond to what you say, how you should respond to others, and how to fuel a conversation of greater intellect that will ultimately allow you to reach your potential.
The Power of “Working a Room” Can Be Yours, Helping You to Reach Ultimate Success.
Have you seen that person at parties—that person who seems to know how to speak to everyone? That person automatically receives endless opportunities for success, for greater relationships with people, and for enhanced leadership capabilities just because he is able to speak to anyone and “work a room.” But did you know this ability to “work a room” is simply a social intelligence muscle you can learn to exercise and strengthen? Comprehend this ability through step-by-step instructions outlined in this book.
Become a Leader and Enhance the Structure and Versatility of Your Followers.
Are you a successful leader? Do people understand what you need from them? Do you fuel an environment of creativity and understanding? With greater social intelligence, you can truly magnify your leadership abilities. You can achieve greater respect, and you can achieve greater output from your employees.
After all, social intelligence is the single most important element of the sphere of intelligences, outpacing your other intelligent abilities. You have to know how to treat people, how to fuel respect and empathy, and how to become successful, down to your very social intelligence brain chemistry.
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Social Intelligence - Jonny Bell
Chapter 1. What is Social Intelligence?
Social intelligence is the path to greater success and greater confidence.
But what, exactly, is it?
Let’s begin with the following questions:
Do you find yourself getting along well with others often, easily falling into easy conversations with people you don’t know?
Do you find yourself fitting in naturally with large groups of people, many of whom have different view points than you, have alternate ideas, or are all from different backgrounds?
If the answer is yes, then you probably have something called social intelligence.
Social intelligence is the general ability to ease into environments of many different people. As you do this, these people not only accept you. They also work well with you, listen to you, and respond to what you have to say. Note that, on its most simplistic level, social intelligence is referred to as people skills.
But it is so much more than that. Look to the following points to better understand the intricacies of social intelligence.
Social intelligence brings you overarching awareness of social situations. Therefore, it’s like you speak the undercurrent
language of the social situation.
Social intelligence brings you awareness of the social dynamics in certain social situations. Therefore, you understand who the dominant
person at the party is; you understand who is shy or reserved. You know who the popular people are, and you know who is not as welcome. You can read the room,
so they say. You are not lost.
Social intelligence brings you information about the strategies and styles involved with interacting with these people. This ability will give you heightened appeal at these social functions. You can speak to whomever you want or need to in a manner they would like and respond well to.
Social intelligence brings you an idea of how other people perceive you. Therefore, you understand how people will react to what you say and how you say it. You can alter your style to fit the style of the room. For example, you wouldn’t speak loudly at a nursing home, and you wouldn’t speak conservatively at a nightclub.
The Social Interaction Spectrum
According to a researcher named Karl Albrecht, the behavior you have in a social situation ranks somewhere on a spectrum between a nourishing
social effect and a toxic
social effect. Note that this toxic
action is something that makes other, surrounding people feel disrespected, guilty, angry, or somehow less-than.
Note, then, that the nourishing
social action is something that makes others feel affirmed in their sense of self, happy, intelligent, or otherwise valued in some way. Naturally, you’re aiming for this nourishing social action.
Therefore, if you find that you have continual toxic effects in social interactions, you might have a low sense of social intelligence. You cannot connect with others; you cannot make your words influence other people on a strong, impactful, and appropriate level to ultimately reach a connection.
If you have a continued nourishment as a result of your behavior, however, you have a much more effective strategy in speaking with your peers. Therefore, you have a high social intelligence.
Is Social Intelligence an Aspect of Your Personality?
According to the theory of multiple intelligences created by Harvard University’s Professor Howard Gardner, social intelligence is an aspect of a group of intelligences, rather than an aspect of your personality. Alongside this comprehension, according to this theory of multiple intelligences, your IQ
score is completely invalid. One number can’t comprehend many different spheres. In fact, intelligence has many different spheres, many different dimensions that continually alter and change based on challenges and experiences. Therefore, your intelligence is