What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
?
EQ or
emotional Intelligence is more important than IQ or intelligence to succeed in
life and in your job. To succeed in your profession you should be good in
reading other person’s signals and react appropriately.
We all
should develop the emotional intelligence required to understand, negotiate and
empathize with other people.
“Your EQ
is the level of your ability to understand other people, what motivates them
and how to work cooperatively with them,” says Howard Gardner, Harvard
theorist.
There are 5 categories of Emotional Intelligence
(EQ)
1. Self-awareness.
It is your ability to recognize your own emotions and their
effects. It is having confidence about
your self-worth and capabilities.
2. Self-regulation.
When you
become emotional, you loose your self-control. You can however, use number of techniques to
remove negative emotions such as anger, anxiety or depression.
3. Motivation. If you have a positive attitude and clear
goals in life you can easily motivate yourself to achieve it. If you catch
negative thoughts as they occur, you can reframe them in more positive terms —
which will help you achieve your goals.
4. Empathy. It is the ability to understand the
pain and suffering of your colleague or employee. And talking in such a way
that it makes that understand you really feels for them.
5. Social skills.
Today many
persons are expert in technical skills. But they fail in inter personal or
people handling skills. You must possess a high EQ to better understand,
empathize and negotiate with others in a global economy. The development of
good interpersonal skills is important to success in your life and career.
Psychologists
generally agree that among the ingredients for success, IQ counts for roughly
10% (at best 25%); the rest depends on everything else — including EQ.
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