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Bitesize

Know yourself, steady yourself

Emotions, self-awareness and self-management.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 15 minutes
Where
Emotional Intelligence
Price
£39

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

What is an emotion? This module sets Paul Ekman's classical theory of universal, automatically triggered emotions against Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion, treating the disagreement as genuinely unresolved. It explains Ekman's refractory period and why you cannot argue someone calm, introduces emotional granularity, and shows how both ideas can be used with care in meetings, difficult conversations and everyday team language. Self-awareness and self-management are the practical skills everything else in emotional intelligence rests on. This module works through the internal half of Boyatzis and Goleman's competency model, Boyatzis's Intentional Change Theory and Susan David's four skills of emotional agility. It shows where the frameworks meet, where these skills are tested in public service, and how self-management goes wrong when composure is really suppression.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Compare Ekman's classical theory of emotion with Barrett's theory of constructed emotion and identify where they genuinely disagree and where they agree.
  2. Explain the refractory period and apply it to handle a tense conversation by pausing and returning to the substance rather than arguing louder.
  3. Use emotional granularity to name your own emotional states more precisely and widen the emotional vocabulary in your team.
  4. Describe the four internal competencies in Boyatzis and Goleman's model and Susan David's four skills of emotional agility.
  5. Apply Intentional Change Theory to plan development that starts from your own ideal self rather than from compliance with an imposed plan.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 15 minutes of learning.

  1. 03What Is an Emotion? Two Competing TheoriesWhat is an emotion? This module sets Paul Ekman's classical theory of universal, automatically triggered emotions against Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion, treating the disagreement as genuinely unresolved. It explains Ekman's refractory period and why you cannot argue someone calm, introduces emotional granularity, and shows how both ideas can be used with care in meetings, difficult conversations and everyday team language.39 min
  2. 04Self-Awareness and Self-Management in PracticeSelf-awareness and self-management are the practical skills everything else in emotional intelligence rests on. This module works through the internal half of Boyatzis and Goleman's competency model, Boyatzis's Intentional Change Theory and Susan David's four skills of emotional agility. It shows where the frameworks meet, where these skills are tested in public service, and how self-management goes wrong when composure is really suppression.39 min
Where it fits

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Part of the Emotional Intelligence topic, also sold whole as Know yourself, lead others.

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  1. You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
  2. Next stepFocus, Understanding emotional intelligence, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
  3. The whole topicExplore, Know yourself, lead others, 5 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.

When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms

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