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To call someone "emotional" is not a compliment in most universities. Women get the message that workplace success means leaving their emotions at home. Emotions supposedly interfere with intellect, performance and objectivity.
"People used to put Novocain in their mouth so as not to show emotion," said Dr. Leila Gonzalez-Sullivan, recently named the W. Dallas Herring Extension Professor at North Carolina State University. She led workshops on Emotional Intelligence (EI) at the AAWCC/NILD annual conference in Phoenix AZ in June.
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When she started reading about EI, it didn't feel new, she said. Instead it provided a ...