- Emotional Quotient (EQ) has become an important topic of discussion together with Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Let us try to understand the concept of EQ.
Emotional Intelligence [EI] is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
Emotional intelligence helps you build stronger relationships, succeed at school and work, and achieve your career and personal goals. It can also help you to connect with your feelings, turn intention into action, and make informed decisions about what matters most to you.
Our EQ (Emotional Quotient) helps us understand how we are socially active and creative.
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Emotional intelligence helps you build solid seamless relationships, helping you achieve your career and personal goals. It can also help you to connect with your feelings, turn intention into action and make informed decisions about what matters most to you.
Emotional intelligence is not a single unit, it comes with different aspects combined together. Below are a few aspects of Emotional intelligence:-
1. Self-management: Emotions are
important pieces of information that tell you about yourself and others, and the
face of stress takes us out of comfort zone. With the ability to manage stress
and stay emotionally present, learn to receive upsetting information without
letting it override your thoughts and self-control. You’ll be able to make choices that allow you to control impulsive
feelings and behaviours, manage your emotions in healthy ways, take initiative,
follow through on commitments, and adapt to changing circumstances.
2. Self-awareness: We need to
learn how to read body language and tone of voice to become a better
communicator and become a truly active listener. You know your strengths and
weaknesses and have self-confidence. But being able to connect to your
emotions—having a moment-to-moment connection with your changing emotional
experience is the key to understanding how emotion influences your thoughts
and actions.
3. Social awareness: means you have empathy. By investing the
time, effort and paying attention to others, you’ll gain insight into your
emotional state as well as your values and beliefs. We need to explore how
negative and positive emotions impact our brain’s performance and discover the
key drivers that improve our personal and work performance. This heavily
impacts our brain agility, sleep, exercise, and nutrition. You have to take
control of your negative self-talk to get a hand on your impulses.
4. Relationship management: Working well with others is a process that begins with emotional
awareness and your ability to recognize and understand what other people are
experiencing. Once emotional awareness is in play, you can effectively develop
additional social/emotional skills that will make your relationships more effective,
fruitful, and fulfilling.
It’s important to know how to develop and maintain good relationships, communicate clearly, inspire and influence others, work well in a team, and manage conflict.
Summarized by: Sadath Ahmed- Consultant at Credence Learning Foundation. This is Part 1.1 of the series.
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