Emotional Intelligence Communities

Nearly 2000 learning professionals ranked online communities as one of the top three most important components of e-learning programs. Emotional Independence takes practice and support and these communities serve as a forum for folks to share and learn from each other. This is a compelling way for your organization to create cohesion amongst your team, increase productivity and to integrate Emotional Independence principals in every-day interactions.

Three main reasons why you should consider building community into your overall learning strategy:

• Approximately 70 percent of what an employee needs to know in order to do his or her job successfully is learned outside of formal training, according to Peter Henschel’s article “Understanding and Winning the Never-Ending Search for Talent: The Manager’s Core Work in the New Economy”. Therefore, communities extend learning by creating a structure in which people can learn from informal interactions.

• Informal knowledge is extremely difficult to capture. Communities are then a way to share practical know-how that would otherwise remained untapped.

• Creating a structured opportunity for people to network, communicate, mentor and learn from each other lays the groundwork for the community to become a boundaryless container of knowledge and relationships. These qualities can increase individual effectiveness and a company’s overall competitive advantage.