Emotional Intelligence
What is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is defined as your ability to be aware of, control, and manage your emotions, motivate yourself, and recognize, understand, and influence the emotions of others.
Your ability- or inability - to control your reactions to your own or other people’s emotions show up in your behaviors, which will positively or negatively impact your life and career.
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The EQ Advantage
People with higher levels of Emotional Intelligence are:
- More self-confident
- More optimistic
- Better able to deal with change and uncertainly
- Outstanding communicators
- Able to make better decisions more often
- Exceptional leaders
Research has proven that people with strong levels of EQ perform at higher levels, are more motivated, feel better mentally and physically, and enjoy their work, colleagues, friends, and family more because they are better able to recognize and respond to emotions in themselves and others.
Higher levels of EQ have even been shown to reduce the incidence of heart disease, allow better management of Type II diabetes, improve the ability to handle stress and reduce the risk of depression and anxiety.
There is ZERO downside to improving your emotional intelligence.
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Many organizational Psychologists say EQ is the ONE competency that can best help employees, leaders, teams, and organizations dramatically improve their culture, productivity, and bottom-line results.
What the EQ Assessment Measures
The 5 Dimensions of EQ
Self-Awareness - Self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your moods, emotions, and drives and their effect on others.
Self-Regulation - Self-regulation is the ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods and the propensity to suspend judgment and think before acting.
Motivation - Motivation is a passion to work for reasons beyond the external drive for knowledge, utility, surroundings, others, power, or methodology and is based on the internal drive or propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence.
Social Awareness - Social awareness is the ability to understand the emotional makeup of other people and how your words and actions affect others.
Social Regulation - Social regulation is the ability to influence the emotional clarity of others through proficiency in managing relationships and building networks.
