Emotional intelligence is a great quality and acquiring this quality helps not only to understand himself fully but also to understand people around him and progress towards a successful career. The capability to perceive, think, understand, regulate, interpret, and make evaluations using emotions to communicate within oneself and also to relate with people around effectively is called emotional intelligence.
Controlling emotions and understanding people is in fact, a great humane quality. Experts suggest that emotional intelligence holds a higher elevation than IQ
Elements of Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence deals with the following elements as prescribed by researchers which are given below
- Perceiving emotions: This is the first step in understanding emotions and this emotion is perceived by understanding non-verbal signs and people’s body language.
- Reasoning emotions: The things which catch our attention, as a human we like to focus on those topics and so it indicates our cognitive ability and emotions glorify our attention and caution instincts.
- Understanding emotions: Emotions which we show hold a wide range of meanings. If someone is expressing angry emotions, it indicates his grudge and anger and the observer must interpret it which shows a great ability of the observer`s emotional intelligence.
- Managing emotions: Controlling emotions and responding to the surrounding people’s emotions works as the highest level of emotion management.
Signs of an emotional intelligent people
An emotional intelligent people shows the following attributes :
- Identify and illustrate about the feeling of people
- Show awareness regarding personal strength and weaknesses
- Not much worried or bother mistakes rather learn from it
- Always remain self-confident and shows self acceptance
- Shows much adaptability in a changing situation
- Shows curiosity about surrounding people perceptions’
- Feels empathy for others and shows sensitivity to the concern of people around
- Manages emotions in difficult situations
Impact of emotional intelligence
The impact of emotional intelligence is undeniable in our day to day life. And in this modern society, it holds utmost significance. Starting from social platforms, engagement to job place this quality is now a necessity.
The impacts are discussed below.
- Self awareness holds utmost priority: Emotional intelligent people are not only aware about their tasks and emotions but also they show a better understanding towards the expressions, mind-reading and emotion of other people.
- Shows empathy towards others: This mainly denotes the response that you see worse or successful conditions of other people and try to feel the same responses and emotions generated in you, the same as that of other people if you were in their situations or positions.
- Think and then react: Emotions can be highly powered sometimes and in some situations it might show a low voltage.
If you are angry with your colleague for some reason, while reacting being an emotionally intelligent person ,you should think for a while and then respond. This assists a person to calm down and think logically for a while.
Techniques of using emotional intelligence
By following these techniques you might use your emotional intelligence for a prosperous career:
- Accept criticism and responsibility on a sound mind
- Ability to say no when you needed
- Able to share your feelings with others
- Able to solve problems analytically which work for everyone
- Have empathy for other people
- Have great listening skills
- Have empathy for other people
- Not being judgmental of others
Drawbacks of emotional intelligence
Having lower emotional intelligence can provide a number of pitfalls .Also higher emotional intelligence can bring challenges in life.
Demerits of low emotional intelligence:
- Get in more arguments
- Have lower quality relationships
- Have poor emotional coping skills
Demerits of high emotional intelligence:
- Research suggests that people with high emotional intelligence can be less innovative and creative
- Can deliver negative feedback in fear of other people’s feelings.
- High emotional intelligence may sometimes be misused for deceptive and illegal purposes
Ways of improving emotional intelligence
- Ability to listen needs to be grown first. Because the more you listen, the more you can pay attention
- Understanding own emotions and picking up others emotions
- The more it is possible to reflect reasoning and emotional intelligence in your decisions, the more helpful it will be.
These are all about emotional intelligence. Its pros and cons and thereby progressing towards an effective solution and becoming a grown up individual. As a human, in our day to day life, this emotional intelligence skill is much needed. This skill should be improved as much as possible in our day to day life for better understanding and communication.
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Writer,
Amir Uddin Ahmed
Intern, Content Writing Department,
YSSE