Emotional intelligence is not a personality trait. It is a set of skills.
Here is how to develop yours.
Free resources to developing your emotional intelligence, paired with an interactive tool to help you see where you are now and where to focus next.
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Understand yourself before you read a single page
Before you open the book, I want you to use the Emotional Intelligence Explorer. It is a free, interactive tool that takes you through 15 essential facets of emotional intelligence, one by one.
Most people pick up a book on emotional intelligence and read it from cover to cover without ever stopping to ask: which part of this actually applies to me? The Explorer changes that. It gives you a structured, honest look at where you are right now across every dimension of emotional intelligence, so that when you read the book, you are reading it with a clear sense of where your development matters most.
- Explore each of the 15 facets at your own pace, in any order
- Read what higher and lower levels of each facet look like in real behaviour
- Work through a practical exercise for each facet
- Reflect using prompts designed to surface honest, personal insight
- Rate yourself honestly on each facet using a simple slider
What you get back
Once you have worked through the facets, the Explorer builds a personalised snapshot of your emotional intelligence profile.
- A category overview showing your average across each of the five areas of emotional intelligence
- Your recommended focus areas: the facets where you identified the most room to grow
- A direct link back into each focus area so you can explore it further, immediately
- Your ratings are saved so you can return and track your development over time
Both are yours, free, the moment you sign up
The Emotional Intelligence Explorer
An interactive tool built around 15 essential facets of emotional intelligence. Explore, reflect, rate yourself, and receive a personalised snapshot showing exactly where to focus your development. This is where to start.
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
A clear, practical guide to understanding how you think, feel, and respond under pressure. Use it alongside the Explorer to go deeper into the facets that matter most to you. Delivered as a free download, immediately.
The Explorer tells you where to focus. The book gives you the understanding to act on it.
Knowing it matters is not the same as knowing what to do
Most people working in demanding environments know that how they respond to situations matters. The challenge is rarely awareness. It is application.
You may recognise some of this: conversations that do not go the way you intended. Reactions under pressure that you later question. A sense that something in how you handle people or situations could be different, but no clear starting point for where to begin.
Emotional intelligence is not about being more emotional. It is about understanding your emotions clearly enough to use them well.
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Reacting under pressure rather than responding with intention
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Avoiding or mishandling difficult conversations
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Knowing that emotional intelligence matters but not knowing where to focus
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Feeling less confident in people situations than in technical or specialist ones
What you will find in Develop Your Emotional Intelligence
What emotional intelligence actually is
Stripped of jargon and theory, the book explains emotional intelligence in terms of real behaviour and real situations. Not an abstract concept. A practical capability.
How your emotions shape your thinking and decisions
You will begin to notice the connection between how you feel and how you act, particularly under pressure. That awareness is the foundation of intentional response.
How to handle difficult situations with greater steadiness
Not scripts or formulas. Practical approaches that help you respond rather than react when conversations or circumstances become challenging.
How to understand the emotions and behaviour of others
Understanding others more clearly improves how you communicate, lead, and build trust without performance or pretence.
Depth on the facets your Explorer identified
Use the book to go further in the areas your personalised snapshot highlighted. One gives you direction. The other gives you understanding.
A clear path from awareness to intentional action
The book is structured to take you from understanding what emotional intelligence is, to applying it in real situations, at your own pace.
Written by Robin Hills
I have spent over 45 years working with people across business, leadership, and professional development. In that time, one thing has remained consistent: the people who handle situations most effectively are not necessarily the most experienced or the most qualified. They are the ones who understand their emotions clearly enough to act with intention rather than react out of habit.
I created the Emotional Intelligence Explorer and wrote this book because I wanted to offer something practical. Not theory. Not a programme that takes weeks to complete before you see any value. A clear, honest starting point you can use today.
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Really enjoyed learning about this. The course was very interesting and highlighted things I have done for years but never knew why or that there was a process.
This is really helpful in my understanding of this topic. I have heard a lot about emotional intelligence but did not quite realise what it was all about. I have a clearer understanding but now realise that I have to go and practice improving my emotional intelligence.
This creates a wide understanding about the topic especially tackling emotional intelligence.
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