Emotional Intelligence and the Workplace

 Grand Summary      Emotional intelligence plays an important role in aiming to become successful with your career and building relationships with the important people in life, especially the close friends and family. In each of the sources I gathered they all share the same point as to being emotionally intelligence is having the ability of self awareness, self regulation, empathy, and social skills.      The discussions about managing our emotions regardless of the situation and handling it well is the key to having high EI. The four attributes that was mentioned are all interconnected with each other. All the authors discussed similar ideas focusing on those four attributes. Self regulation is discussed about being in control of our emotions rather than letting it control them, therefore we can make rational decisions. Self awareness is the ability to understand our own strengths and weaknesses. Empathy is the understanding of emotions, needs, and c...

Title: What is Emotional Intelligence? Published By: The School of Life Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUCyWhJf6s Summary: The video does a good job explaining what is emotional intelligence and the importance of its meaning and effect of a person's intelligence level. Along with the importance of developing IQ, EI should also be taught and improved.  The term intelligence is often used as a general quality to describe a person's ability to do well. Emotional intelligence is the quality that allows people to approach the many problems that are faced in our affective relationship with ourselves and other people by having patience, insight, and imagination.  A person can be successful and referred to be as clever but may be lacking in an area regarding their personal life. One could be powerful and wealthy but feel miserable on the inside, which is the emotional intelligent aspect of a person's level of intelligence. You are considered emotionally intelligent if you...

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Published By: Valamis https://www.valamis.com/hub/emotional-intelligence-in-the-workplace Summary: What is emotional intelligence (EI)? Valamis defines EI as a person's ability to identify, understand, manage and harness their own emotions and the people around them. It is said to be an important skill as it has become an area of interest across multiple disciplines including the workplace. Employees who have high emotional intelligence is said to be inclined to a better career development and is more beneficial for their organization. The benefits they provide is a better team relationship and a positive work culture. Employees who doesn't have high emotional intelligence tend to struggle to manage their feelings. Which results to them acting impulsively without consideration of the consequences of their actions. Emotional intelligence in the workplace can be seen with colleagues supporting each other reducing stress, giving constructive...