Building your Emotional Intelligence
to ensure success and happiness
For
professionals, cognitive intelligence comes naturally as it’s 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 becomes essential. Emotional
Intelligence - measured as EQ becomes a key differentiating factor for their
future growth.
You may realize
that with IQ being at the same level, growing your Emotional Intelligence
enables you to become an effective manager, leader, and a better human being.
This ensures work-life success and enhances your happiness.
Aspects of Emotional Intelligence:
Self-awareness and Self-actualization: perceiving your current strengths and
weakness, learning to improve, and striving to achieve your objectives.
Assertiveness: confidently expressing your thoughts
and views while being aware of the potential for causing a conflict or
opposition.
Social-awareness and Interpersonal
skills: being sensitive
to other person’s situation, collaborating, and developing strong
relationships.
Impulse Control: delaying or holding-off the
temptation to speak or act, and patiently sorting out the most appropriate
response.
Practical Thinking: assessing and checking the reality
of the current situation while avoiding to be biased by any false imagination.
Problem Solving: connecting with the subjective and
objective elements while solving problems and effectively making choices & taking
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.
In certain
situations, if you can’t control your emotions then there is risk that you
could cause a negative effect on the outcome. When we let our emotions run out
of control, they cause us to do and say some terrible things. Uncontrolled
emotions in some settings change the perception of those involved. In a sensitive
circumstance if you’ve had an emotional outburst, it might lead to disturbance and
a distancing in your relationship with those affected.
They might say:
“I can’t remember
what s/he did, but I remember how angry s/he got.”
“I can’t remember
what s/he said, but I remember how hurt s/he made me feel.”
Choosing how you respond
to a situation, problem, or challenge is more important than the actual
occurring phenomenon!
Commit to a life
of constant growth and become the master of your own destiny.
You don’t have to
stride on this path all alone. You could choose to engage a coach who will walk
with you on this journey.
