What is Emotional Intelligence? |
Emotional Intelligence usually known as EI, is the ability of a person to control, perceive and influence your emotions and the emotions of other people around you. However, the first definition of I was given in Salovey and Mayer in 1990, as the ability to monitor our own and others feelings and emotions.
The ability based model see emotions as informations that helps navigate the social environments. This Model says that individuals have different abilities to process emotional information and to relate emotional processing to a cognition.
This model defines that EI have 4 types of abilities:
Preceiving emotions- its the ability to perceive your own emotions and the ability to detect emotions, voices and pictures of others.
Using Emotions- The ability to make different cognitive activities, like problem solving and thinking.
Understanding Emotions- how to comprehend emotion languge and distinguish complicated relationships between emotions.
Managing Emotions- Its how to control and manage emotions in ourselves and others. So you can manage even negative emotions and achieve your goals.
The Emotional Goleman Model
Goleman introduced his own model with his book "Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998) and he said that EI, is the most important ability for success in the workplace.
These are the main points of Golemans Model:
Self Awareness- which is the ability to understand your own emotions and how they impact following your own feelings and decisions.
Self Management- The ability to control your own emotions and adapt to different circumstances.
Social Awareness- which is the ability to understand, react and sense other people emotion and comprehend different social networks.
Relationship Management- is the ability to inspire and influence or develop other people and manage conflicts.
Goleman states that there are some emotional competencies that we all have, we are born with a common emotional intelligence but its not a talent, its something that can be develop and learned to achieve our highest performance.
Emotional Intelligence is a very important ability that we should all develop to achieve our goals and have a more happy relationships. Talent and IQ is not enough to be successful, now we understand that emotional intelligence has a vital role in people who become successful.
Quick Tip #1
We can improve our Emotional Intelligence EQ by doing some daily exercises |
Quick Tip #2
Emotional Intelligence is vital for the entrepreneur that wants to be successful and needs to deal with a lot of people |
Quick Tip #3
Its not enough to have a high IQ now more than ever we need to develop our Emotional Intelligence to make better business decision and have more hppier personal relationships |
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