Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to manage your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you. It is an important tool to navigate our relationships, workplace environment, and mental health.
EI has five key elements: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.
People with high EI can identify how they are feeling, what those feelings mean, and how those emotions impact their behavior and in turn, other people. This is a great superpower to have as this makes our internal as well as external environment more predictable to us. Which in turn brings a lot of clarity to navigate any kind of interaction with others, in a most constructive way.
Managing the emotions of another person is hard- because it is impossible to control someone else feelings and behaviors. However, If we can identify the emotions behind their behavior, we may better understand where they are coming from and the best way to interact with them.
EI is not a way of manipulation, instead having a well-developed EI makes us more empathetic, persuasive, assertive, and socially adept. Individuals with high EI are seen as reliable, calm, consistent, assertive, and natural leaders.
COMPONENTS of EI
- Self-Awareness: the insight a person has of his conscious as well as unconscious motives, desires, and emotions. The catch is, we mostly know some part of our conscious level emotions & motives, but our unconscious, which forms 93% of the mind remains largely unknown to us.
- Self-Regulation: When people feel strong emotions, such as anger, frustration, or anxiety, they experience physical and mental responses. People may feel short-tempered, have outbursts, have mood swings, or experience negative emotions. Learning how to process emotions and respond with appropriate behavior is essential to a person’s well-being.
- Motivation: Motivation is the process that stimulates and directs someone toward achieving their goals. Motivation allows a person to remain true to their goals and persevere, even during challenging times.
- Empathy: Empathy refers to how tuned to the emotions of others a person is. Someone with high EI can accurately identify which emotions another person is feeling and can tell the difference between genuine and false emotions.
- Social Skills: A person with higher levels of EI may be better at interacting appropriately with others than a person with low levels of EI.
EI can help a person build relationships, communicate with others, and maintain friendships
Emotional Intelligence Training improves :
- work-related outcomes
- teamwork and management skills
- overall job satisfaction
- psychological health and well-being
- physical health, including somatic complaints
- social relationships
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