Ninety Bible. Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. He is eight thirty six. We're running a little bit behind today, but I think you know why the ice in the snow and getting all the brittany and information out to you. It is time now for our community connection and from Oklahoma Wesleyan University, we have professor Sandy Lynn. Sandy, how are you today?
I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me.
Boy, I tell you what, We've got quite a panel coming up here. We have a free community event. It's tell us a little bit about it. This is something that's kind of new to some people.
Sure. We have this event next Tuesday night on the campus of Oklahoma Westlands and we've called it Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence. The Yeah, some people may or may not know what emotional intelligence is, and we are here to help people understand and it and why it's so important.
Now with emotional intelligence, I think everyone knows what emotions are and they know what intelligence is, but putting them together, well, you've got a little bit of something going on here. Now. I pretty much understand this because this kind of brings you into a new level and if you're able to kind of marry your smarts with your emotions and work in a positive direction. You're going to be doing some pretty good things.
Absolutely. Yes. Kind of a general working definition for emotional intelligence, it's the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions while also recognizing and responding appropriately to the emotions of other people.
Yeah. I think I'm a father of seven. That was one of those things I had to develop because, you know, because it's one of those things where you're around a whole lot of different people, a whole lot of different things in the mix, and you've got to be able to recognize a lot of things, and especially about oneself. And when we unlock this power here, it becomes something very very important. And I think that it's more than
just something for parents, it's for everyone. People you work with, anyone can really use some information on this.
Yes, I would agree with that. I work primarily my students are in the school of business, but I tell them, and I tell everyone I meet, this isn't a just a business issue or a business concept. This is just everyday life, you know, getting along with people, being able to kind of read the room. Yeah, that's kind of the external part, but also really recognizing what's going on with them.
You know, you bring this up in business. I've been on this earth maybe a little too long if you ask some people. But it used to be the boss was the loudest person in the room. That's not the case anymore. It's usually the one who's most in control of his or her emotions and the one who listens probably a little bit better than the rest, right.
And that's so important in any realm. You know, I come from before I started working in higher ed, I was from the nonprofit world with experience and in churches in ministry. So that's my background. Thankfully. For our event, we're going to pull in other professors from the School of Business who have varied in assort of backgrounds that they're going to share their experiences about why emotional intelligence is so important in all of the realms. You know that we'll discuss.
Well, yeah, I see the lineup. We have doctor Stacy Duke. We also have a Professor Jason You see, we have yourself, Professor Sandy Lynn mc, doctor Wendell Weaver, also Professor Jana Russell. And these people come from all different walks, all different professional realms.
Yes we have, and I work with amazing people at Oklahoma Wesleyan. I'm so thrilled that will be up there together because we have so much to contribute, we have so much to share with all the different walks of life.
When did this become a thing? I mean, I know it's always been something, but somebody actually put a name to it, right.
Daniel Goleman, he is a psychologist and an author. In the late nineties, he wrote this article talking about why e Q emotional quotient. Right, that's another name for emotional intelligence, but why eq Q is more important than IQ. So he got the name the father of emotional intelligence pretty much from that article and his numerous books.
That's really amazing. I remember living in Florida in the early two thousands and I was speaking with one of the superintendents of school down there in the central part of Florida, and they were talking about moving these concepts
into the teaching realm at the public schools. And they figured if they got a handle on this really early with the youngsters, they would be more prepared to learn, you know, more entirely instead of just you know, being taught ABCD and one, two, three, they would be able to really put this together and become better people as well as better pupils.
Right right, there is a big push for younger ages for it's called social emotional learning. Yeah, that's you know some of that in the in the grade school, you know, middle school, high school. At Oklahoma Wesleyan, I'm so thankful I get to teach two different emotional intelligence classes. We have one for freshmen in the School of Business that really helps their transition into college. You know, there's all the fields, there's all the things when you're leaving home
and going to college. And then I get to teach an upper division like for juniors and seniors about really the focuses emotional intelligence in the workplace.
This is really going to be a dynamic presentation and it's free to the community. Once again. It's going to be next Tuesday, that's.
Correct, at six thirty.
And we're we're on campus. Are we going to bed.
It's in Lion Hall right as you come into campus. It's that first building. Can't miss it. It'll be it right, you can't miss it. It'll be at six thirty and we would really love to have everyone join us.
You know, when the more folks learn about this and they kind of get over the name EQ or EI, whatever you want to go through it. You're going to find that once you really get into this and really start learning more about this, frustration levels amongst folks kind of go down considerably.
Absolutely absolutely. It's it's I call it people skills, you know, just learning to really get along with people a lot better.
Oh righty, Well, once again we are speaking with Professor Sandy Lynn and coming up on Tuesday night six thirty at Lion Hall. This will be the free community event on how you can discover how emotional intelligence or EQ can transform your personal and professional success. And it's a great big panel discussion with doctor Stacey Duke, also Sir Jason Busey, Professor Sandy Lane, with whom we're speaking, doctor Wendell Weaver, and Professor jan Or Russell. Well, you got
a big who's who up there? Oh?
We do? Oh, you don't get any better than this crew. I'm excited to join with them. I'll open it up and give a little teaching about what emotional intelligence is and then they'll take it away with all how to apply it in different areas.
Wow, you get to set the stage for it all. That's pretty dark cool.
Yes, I love it. This is a big passion of mine. I just told my class this week. It's something that I was very much interested in and never had the words to describe what it was in getting along with people. And then I actually took a class at at Oklahoma wesleyand with one of my master's degrees and learned all about emotional intelligence. And that sent me on a path to be certified and to learn everything that I could possibly learn about it. So I'm thrilled to share what I know.
Well right now, you got me excited to learn a little bit more about it. Imagine we've got a few folks in the audience feeling the same way. I want to thank you. I want to thank you very much, Professor Sandy Lynn for being with us today. Stay warm and then, you know, stay off those roads if you can.
Absolutely, I will thank you so much.
God bless you. Thank you very much. Folks, you've been watching and listening to our community connection