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Risk Intelligence ...
Sounds as though this should go hand in hand with Risk Intelligence - which in many respects should be higher up the scale than EI, especially for accountants
How one makes decisions based upon what one knows whilst allowing for unknown areas
Donald Rumsfeld
'.. There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know ..'
Taking too little risk can be just as dangerous as too much
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I find that the sort of intelligence that many of my clients tend to look for is to come up with the right answers to solve cash flow problems from time to time. There can be plenty of emotion attached to that but not a lot of intelligence to begin with.
I am a robot, I am a robot. I do not have emotions, I do not have compassion, I add up and I uhyugbbufguhjnxncuifue. (said in a dalek style voice)
The more I listen to this sort of crap (sorry Rachael) the more I feel we are losing it. Do you really think that our clients want us to have all these gimmicky ways of working. Good relations with clients sometimes include disagreements. You give them options, they choose. You try to guide them in what you think is the right direction and if they go another way you try and persuade them otherwise. Let's not forget we work for our clients, not the other way round.
I see even the big boys have opted out. Clients put monthly bookkeeping on cloud, outsourcers in India do the business, no language barrier as all figures.
We won't be called Accountants anymore just NC's with EI, RI but no I on the job we are supposed to be doing.
Can't wait for the next buzz words. What about Constantly Reducing Accountants Profile.
@John Jenkins Anyone else see the irony here?
When companies like Google take this subject seriously, and incorporate it into their hiring process and value it as highly as IQ, I would think it's fair to say it has some value.
As for your clients expecting this of you, I agree with John Jenkins completely - I don't think it's a steadfast requirement by any means. Emotional intelligence is not far from having personal skills - you don't need personal skills to be able to complete your job to an extremely high standard, but I've not come across many highly successful or C-level folk who can't hold a conversation.
EI not Helpful in Business
As I understand it, psychopathic traits are more common in senior managers and business executives than in the general population http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10683160310001634304#.VFoaZcl... and there is no evidence that EI helps at all.
@chatman
Has this ever been updated? There aren't many senior staff about these days. It's mostly bosses and juniors.
I suppose
in those days it would have been middle management. Most of those were done away with at the last recession and HR became fashionable.
Google etc.
have the pick of the market place when it comes to labour so they can use any particular fad that they think is important at the time to choose their staff. Most large companies used to have a personnel department, some still do, but it is probably a luxury that isn't affordable. We have HR clients who specialise in head hunting etc.
I was listening to a speaker yesterday at PE and she said she could tell the mood of her staff by the way they took their coat off. Then treated them accordingly. My how things have changed.
Things are always changing, it's the ability to adapt that results in success. Firms that haven't adopted online systems and technologies for example are losing business to those that do, I've seen it repeatedly and am thinking of those firms that still refuse to have a website and are wondering why their client base isn't growing as fast as local competition.
I see the softer skills such as emotional intelligence as the skills that can differentiate you, those that add some shine to you amongst the infinite pool of competitors.
Getting the job done isn't good enough any more. You have to be able to get the job done and be able to have good relationships with people - something emotional intelligence helps develop.
Treating people with contempt and sarcasm, and calling something "cr*p" doesn't strike me as "dealing with people in a calm and rational manner".
@chris
When you have been around as long as me and you see the way my profession has been bombarded with "should do's" "can't do's" and all the other buzz words and sales techniques that are supposed to make us "stand out" etc. you start beginning to think what is all this crap? Is there someone who sits in a office thinking this crap up?
Knowing your client and getting the job done professionally, has and always will be, is what being an Accountant is all about.
If you want confirmation just look what happened to the banks since the 1990's.
I'm not naive enough to think that our profession won't change. After being at PE yesterday and listening to what is going on it's quite obvious that my sort of Accountancy will deal with the small stuff under the VAT threshold and for business bigger than that there won't be Accountants, just business consultants and tax specialists.
Do good doctors need EI or a good bedside manner? I hardly think so.
When I stop getting clients by referrals then I will hone in on my personnel skills.
On "cr*p"
@ John Jenkins
It never ceases to amaze me what some people get away with to make a living. In my book this EI thing comes under the heading selling smoke" but your description of "crap" will do just fine.
EI is Important
EI is extremely important in life; I just don't think many senior people in business have it.
@chatman
I presume you're not talking about bosses or juniors. So your "senior" people must be "middle management" ie. they have the job of interpreting bosses demands (wishes) and making sure the juniors carry out those wishes. IMV this has never worked and these are the people who get stressed and sometimes their health suffers. You've only got to look at HMRC to see why it doesn't work.
Now to the nitty gritty. If you have "what it takes" then it's highly likely you will end up running your own business. If not, and you have knowledge of your job, then you might progress up the ladder to a reasonable salary until the next recession and you find you are no longer needed because someone like yourself 30 years ago has replaced you for a quarter of your salary.
What is important in life is that we stop this constant strive, that is selling driven, to be better than anyone else and to be perfect. It hasn't worked for the banks and it's certainly not working for HMRC. The professional bodies in Accountancy should take heed. Their days are numbered.
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