Grow your Emotional Intelligence to ensure professional success

Grow your Emotional Intelligence to ensure professional success

For professionals, cognitive intelligence comes naturally since it is the driver of their functional excellence. Most professionals score high on IQ - Intelligence Quotient. As professionals gradually move up the ladder and take senior/ management roles, building Emotional Intelligence -  measured as EQ becomes essential. Per my observation it becomes a differentiating factor for their future growth. As one progresses further; they realize that with their Intelligence Quotient (IQ) staying steady at the achieved level, growing their Emotional Intelligence enables them to become effective managers and leaders.

Emotional Intelligence spectrum:

Self-Actualization: perceiving your current strengths & weakness, learning to self-improve, setting &  striving to achieve your objectives, and gaining fulfillment.

Assertiveness: confidently expressing your thoughts & views while being aware of the potential for causing a conflict or opposition.

Interpersonal skills: being sensitive to other person’s situation, collaborating, and developing strong relationships.

Impulse Control: delaying/holding-off the temptation to speak or act, and patiently sorting out the most appropriate response.

Practical Thinking: assessing & checking the reality of the current situation while avoiding to be biased by any false imagination.

Problem Solving: connecting with the subjective & objective elements while solving problems and effectively taking choices/decisions

Flexibility: assessing new conditions, being open to dynamically adapt to them, and accordingly adjusting your behavior.

Resilience: maintaining a positive attitude in hard times, and enduring challenges effectively with an optimistic view for a better outcome.