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How to Be Emotionally Intelligent
Self-Awareness
- Realistic self-confidence: You recognize your own abilities and shortcomings; you operate from competence and know when to rely on someone else.
- Emotional insight: You are aware of your own feelings. You can identify the cause of the emotions to help you manage them.
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Great Leaders
Knowledge, smarts and vision are characteristic of a great leader. Add to these the ability to identify and monitor emotions (your own and others) and to manage relationships.
Qualities associated with such emotional intelligence distinguish the best leaders in the corporate world.
Self-Awareness
- Realistic self-confidence: You recognize your own abilities and shortcomings; you operate from competence and know when to rely on someone else.
- Emotional insight: You are aware of your own feelings. You can identify the cause of the emotions to help you manage them.
Self-Management
- Resilience: You know how to stay calm under pressure and can recover quickly from upsets.
- Emotional balance: You can control any distressful feelings without blowing up at people.
- Self-motivation: You keep moving toward long-term goals despite setbacks.
Empathy
- Cognitive and emotional empathy: You can describe things in ways your colleagues can understand because you are aware of different perspectives.
- Good listening: You pay full attention to the other person and make sure you understand what they are saying.
Relationship Skills
- Compelling communication: You put your points in precise ways that persuade so that people are motivated.
- Team playing: People feel relaxed working with you.
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Emotional Intelligence( EQ/EI)
Is the measure of an individual’s abilities to recognise and manage their emotions, and the emotions of other people, both individually and in groups.
Benefits of a higher EQ
- 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.
IQ and EQ
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.
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Emotional Intelligence Matters
Manage your negative emotions
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.
Be mindful of your vocabulary
Emotionally intelligent people tend to use more specific words that can help communicate deficiencies, and then they immediately work to address them.
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Acute Awareness
One of the defining features of emotional intelligence is the ability to comprehend the effects of your feelings.
This is crucial for making sound, objective decisions when your ...
Impact Interpretation
Emotional intelligence makes it easier to anticipate and respond to others' sentiments.
Bad news from work can shock or dismay your employees, while good news may make them unreasonably optimistic. Emotional intelligence means you can tell ahead of time how others will react and develop a strategy to keep them grounded.
Mental Health Management
Those with emotional intelligence have an easier time assessing the emotional and psychological state of their employees.
This makes it easier to determine if someone is suffering from: anxiey, depression, grief, trauma or eating disorders. By recognizing these states, you can provide them with the support and professional resources they need to recover.
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