Emotional Impact Management Report
Leadership, career and personal assessments focus on competencies. This is only half of the equation. People work in organizations. Competencies have a positive effect when others use them to move organizational objectives forward. The emotions that a person GENERATES in others can facilitate or impede this process.
The Emotional Impact Management Report focuses on the emotions that a person CAUSES in others. The report is designed to help manage these effects. In other words, the report is organizationally rather than individually focused. As an organizational tool it can be expected to have widespread positive effects.
More Videos The Emotional Impact Management Report is written at a 7th grade reading level using a mature, respectful and direct tone. It offers a way of recognizing, evaluating and managing the emotions. The report is based on the fully validated and highly accurate "I Opt" technology.
- The focus of the report is managing the emotions that a person CAUSES rather than those experienced. The report is an organizationally <vs. individually> oriented.
- The cover image is the individual’s actual "I Opt" profile. This makes each report visually unique as well unique in content.
- Emotions are defined as bio-chemical bodily responses meant to alert an individual to a condition worthy of attention. They are natural and vital to the conduct of any life.
- Feelings are defined as the meaning attributed to emotions. These are variable and can be managed.
- Any behavior can be seen as positive or negative. Positive emotions facilitate and negative emotions impede organizational transactions.
- The report covers emotions generated by both long and short-terms behaviors. Individual instances and sustained interactions are thus covered.
- Specific strategies for managing the likely emotions that will be generated in others are covered in the report.
- More general strategies –both individual and organizational—are outlined.
- Mutual respect is identified as a key component of any emotional management strategy.
Emotional Impact Management is a necessary key for success in all aspects of organizational life.
A person’s career success will be as strongly influenced by their effect on others, as it will be by their specific competencies. Positive emotional attributions will cause doors to open and opportunities to appear.
Leadership success will be affected by positive emotions generated among those being lead. This can cause them to extend themselves beyond the boundaries of required action and into the realm of exceptional achievement.
Successful followership is a key component of both career and leadership. Knowing how to manage the emotional responses of leaders is usually a precondition to any type of organizational success.
People also participate in organizations beyond those of the firm in which they work. The tools, techniques and methods in the Organizational Impact Management Report will work in them all. It is likely that improvement in these external areas will rebound and positively affect the work situation in which they participate.
The Emotional Impact Management Report is setup in a logical, step-by-step format. It begins by defining "emotions" and "feelings" in a way that makes them amenable to management.
The report then proceeds to show how emotional cascades can be caused in others with whom the person interacts. It shows how what appears to be a minor transgression can cascade into a major organizational threat.
The report then proceeds to demonstrate how the emotions that are generated can be managed. It progresses from short-term, single instance situations to longer-term themes, trends and tendencies.
Throughout the report the likely exposures are identified. Marginal checkmarks in the report signal particularly important threats and opportunities. Specific strategies for managing these emotional impacts are offered.
The report concludes with general strategies that are useful in any organizational situation.
The report is designed to repeatedly demonstrate that all strategic styles carry exposures and opportunities. These are not some fault of the individual.
The key is to manage the impact that a person’s behavior has on others. Management can be taught. The individual can apply that learning to their personal benefit as well as to the benefit of the larger organization. The role of the Emotional Impact Management Report is to spark and facilitate that learning.
The Emotional Impact Management Report works by considering the likely outcomes of applying the individual’s information-processing preferences in an organizational context.
Information-processing elections are the foundation of behavior. Behaviors are the things that can cause emotions and feelings to arise in other people. Since "I Opt" measures information-processing preferences it can accurately predict likely behaviors.
Behaviors are likely to vary by both the strength and direction. "I Opt" uses exact measurement. This permits it to gauge the exact strengths of the different tendencies that we all have within our behavioral repertoires. This sensitivity gives "I Opt" the ability to estimate the likely effects on other people.
The actual effect on others is also governed by the behavioral preferences of these other people. "I Opt" has a substantial database that permits the reasonable estimation of the likely consequences in an organizational context.
"I Opt" draws on a unique human dimension (information processing vs. psychology). Thus it can complement any valid standard Emotional Intelligence tool (individually vs. organizationally oriented). The choice depends on the objective of the user—including the choice of using both tools.
The net result is that the Emotional Impact Management Report offers an accurate, judgmentally benign tool focused on organizational improvement.
The Emotional Impact Management Report is written at a 7th grade reading level using a mature, respectful and direct tone. It offers a way of recognizing, evaluating and managing the emotions that are a natural consequence of interaction. The report is based on the fully validated and highly accurate "I Opt" technology.
- The cover image is the individual’s actual "I Opt" profile. This makes each report unique visually as well as in content.
- The introduction stresses that this uniqueness causes natural inevitable stresses in any kind of human interaction.
- Emotions are defined as bio-chemical bodily responses meant to alert the individual to a condition worthy of attention. They are natural and useful.
- Feelings are defined as the meaning attributed to emotions. These are variable and can be managed.
- Any behavior can be seen as positive or negative. The likely positive and negative attributions for the particular person are specified in the report.
- The report first focuses on the impact of short-term (i.e., strategic style) preferences. These are the behaviors that can launch a cascade. Managing these initial events limits the need for later remedial actions.
- Some interactions persist over long periods. The duration and multiple different circumstances bring into play an individual’s long-term behavioral preferences (i.e., strategic patterns). The report considers these longer-term effects.
- In all cases, the report identifies the specific exposures of the individual as well as specific strategies that can be used to offset exposures and magnify strengths.
- The need for the individual to manage themselves as well as their effect on others is stressed.
- The report specifically addresses the issue of managing cascades (i.e., sequences of self-reinforcing emotions) that may have been created.
- The report concludes with a summary stressing the value of mutual respect to both the individual and to the organization.