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Emotional intelligence, also known as EI or EQ (for Emotional Intelligence Quotient), describes a person's ability to recognize emotions, to understand their powerful effect, and to use that information to guide thinking and behavior. Since EI helps you to better understand yourself--and others--a high EQ increases your chances for successfully achieving goals.

 

But is there a way to increase your emotional intelligence?

In their seminal research and publication, The Emotionally Intelligent Manager, professors David R. Caruso and Peter Salovey broke down four of the core skills involved in developing emotional intelligence:

 

1. Identifying your feelings and those of others

2. Using feelings to guide your own thinking and reasoning, along with others

3. Understanding how feelings might change and develop as events unfold

4. Managing to stay open to the data of feelings and integrate this into decisions and actions

 


Via The Learning Factor