Practice self-awareness

Having a deep understanding of yourself provides you with more accurate perceptions of how you are coming across to others. 

To increase your self-awareness, make an effort to reflect on your strengths, developmental opportunities, triggers, values, and the like so that you are intimately familiar with what makes you tick. 

Weighing feedback can help you guard against blind spots. It can assist you in recognizing if your behaviors are having the effects you are intending.

If they aren't, you can adjust your actions or apologize accordingly (or mindfully choose not to do either).

... so they don't overwhelm you and affect your judgment. 

In order to change the way you feel about a situation, you must first change the way you think about it. 

Increased fear of rejection: “I’m applying for my dream job. I’ll be devastated if they don’t hire me.”
Decreased fear of rejection: “I’m applying for three exciting positions. If one doesn’t pan out, there are two more I’m well qualified for.”

How we handle stressful situations can make the difference between being assertive versus reactive, and poised versus frazzled. When under pressure, the most important thing to keep in mind is to keep our cool. 

• If you feel nervous and anxious, put cold water on your face and get some fresh air. 
• If you feel fearful, depressed, or discouraged, try intense aerobic exercises. Energize yourself. 

If someone is upsetting you, don’t jump to conclusions. Instead, allow yourself to look at the situation in a variety of ways. Try to look at things objectively so you don’t get riled up as easily. 

Emotionally intelligent people tend to use more specific words that can help communicate deficiencies, and then they immediately work to address them. 

• How do you establish trust? An environment with trust promotes higher working engagement
• If you worked for your top competitor, how would you beat yourself?  This question could show the candidate's ability to put the good of the organization ahead their own pride.
• Can you use a belief statement to explain the value of what we offer? Ask a belief statement that gets at the heart of what an organization or team offers.

• Ease in forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships and in ‘fitting in’ to group situations.
• A better understanding one's own psychological state, which can include managing stress effectively and being less likely to suffer from depression.

There is no correlation between IQ and EQ scores.

IQ has no connection with how people understand and deal with their emotions and the emotions of others (EQ). 

You simply can’t predict emotional intelligence based on how smart someone is.

EQ relates to many skills crucial for long-term success:

• Perseverance: not being brought low by a single setback;
• Social perception: being able to understand and empathize with others;
• Communication: the ability to talk with and understand others clearly and concisely;
• Persuasion: being able to convince others to follow a course of action or cooperate; and
• Cooperation: the willingness and ability to effectively work with others for the good of the team.

Without the ability to understand and engage with others on an emotional level, leaders are not as effective at producing results for the organization as a whole.

... we need to ask ourselves in order to assess low emotional intelligence:

1. Are you quick to judge? Low EQ people make hasty, impulsive and negative decisions.
2. Do you have a hard time accepting criticism? Low EQ people tend to freak out when criticized.
3. Are you stressed or anxious? People with low EQ tend to be anxious and stressed.
4. Are you a bad listener? Low EQ individuals neglect to listen and lack empathy
5. Is it hard to recover from mistakes? High EQ individuals are resilient and heal easily.

Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is a system comprising of three well-connected components:

1. Cultural Knowledge: The content and process knowledge of the various cultures.
2. Cross-cultural Skills: A wide range of skills that pertain to the various facets of a culture, like relational, tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity, adaptability, empathy, and the ability to understand other people's feelings.
3. Cultural Metacognition: Also called cultural mindfulness, is the art of being aware of the cultural context, the subtleties of various situations, and the kind of strategies that can be taken.

One can develop cultural knowledge through newspapers, movies, travelling to various countries, and interacting officially or personally with people of different cultures, learning new traditions, customs, cuisines, and rich new ways to live life.

One can identify and analyse the different cultures and utilize the knowledge in future.