One of humanity’s greatest challenges has been to keep up with the rapid pace at which information is being disseminated. Many areas have lost their meaning and given way to new thoughts, opinions and cultures.
How to manage to assimilate everything and stay in line in the middle of so much daily news? And how do you manage your own emotions in the midst of a whirlwind of events that generate the most diverse feelings?
A subject of great relevance today, emotional intelligence consists of the ability to identify, understand and manage one’s own emotions, knowing how to act taking into account one’s personal feelings and also the feelings of others.
Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer are psychologists who study the subject and claim that emotional intelligence consists of “the ability to perceive and express an emotion, to assimilate it into thought, to understand it and to reason it. , in addition to knowing how to regulate it itself. himself and in others ”. It is therefore essential both for ourselves, in our daily life, and for interpersonal relationships.
Soft Skills and Hard Skills
In the not so distant past, professionals who mastered the technical part of their role and who were specialists in a particular field or subject stood out. This is what we call technical skills.
Currently, this concept gives way to a new professional who has the capacity to be multidisciplinary, that is to say who knows at least the basics of the different segments and who, in addition to mastering the techniques, knows how to master his Emotional Intelligence. , creating a healthy environment, improving team communication, business processes and, consequently, results. This technique, we call it Soft Skills.
According to psychologist Daniel Goleman, it’s possible to attribute 80% of people’s success to factors related to emotional intelligence. Having clarity on his emotions, knowing how to name them and especially how to manage them, the professional acts more easily in adverse situations, in a mature manner and without impulsive attitudes. This skill is also essential for successful performance in leadership roles.
This is why it is important to develop this competence in personal and professional life to face everyday situations, to know how to recognize feelings and act on them, in addition to practicing self-knowledge, to be clear about your own emotions.
Therefore, the teaching methodology of Maua seeks to improve the student’s Soft Skills (emotional intelligence, ability to manage human complexities) and Hard Skills (technical knowledge), all so that the student can build his career in a personalized way, according to your objectives .
The idea is therefore to connect, unite, complete, but at the same time to detach and, with that, to evolve, to move forward. And multidisciplinarity has been adopted in the daily lives of students so that they are more and more prepared to take up new challenges.
Mauá and nexialism
This little-known word appeared in the 1950s, in the book “The Voyage of the Space Beagle”, written by a Canadian born in 1911 by the name of Alfred Elton Van Gogt, science fiction writer.
Although quite whimsical, the book tells the story of an interplanetary expedition made up of a crew of generalists and specialists. And this question really bothered us here in Mauá: what kind of professional should we train?
Our conclusion is that both are important! In Van Gogt’s book, there is a challenge to be met in every chapter, and the protagonist, with that, came to the definition of Nexialism, a word that originated from the Latin NEXUS, which means connection. He was able to identify, with Emotional Intelligence, the profiles of each member of the crew, assemble the teams and solve the problems that arose!
Whatever your choice of being a generalist or specialist professional, the most important thing is to know how to work in a team, in a collaborative way! And nexialism provides the perfect formula for making those connections.
Here in Mauá, students can choose their training as a generalist or a specialist. But the most important is that he / she always brings the trait of Nexialism!
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