Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Its Components

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to identify, understand and manage your emotions and your relationships with others.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

A measure of a person's academic abilities, distinct from emotional intelligence which deals with emotions.

Identifying Emotions

The first step in emotional intelligence, crucial for managing emotions.

Understanding Emotions

The capacity to monitor and label our emotions and determine the reasons behind them.

Managing Emotions

The ability to modify and improve feelings, which involves understanding the type of emotion and how to manage it.

Self-Awareness

The ability to recognize and understand your own emotions.

Emotional Self-Awareness

Reading one's own emotions and recognizing their impact on oneself and others.

Accurate Self-Assessment

Knowing one's strengths and limits.

Self-Confidence

Having a sound sense of one's self-worth and capabilities.

Self-Regulation

The ability to recognize our own emotions and appropriately express, regulate, and manage them.

Self-Control

Managing disruptive emotions and impulses.

Trustworthiness

Maintaining standards of honesty and integrity.

Conscientiousness

Taking responsibility for personal performance.

Adaptability

Flexibility in handling change.

Innovativeness

Being comfortable with and open to novel ideas and new information.

Self-Motivation

The personal drive to improve and achieve, commitment to goals, and readiness to act on opportunities.

Achievement Drive

Striving to improve or meet a standard of excellence.

Commitment

Aligning with the goals of the group or organization.

Initiative

Readiness to act on opportunities.

Optimism

Persistence in pursuing goals despite obstacles and setbacks.

Empathy

The ability to understand how other people are feeling and recognize how you would feel in their situation.

Social Skills

The ability to manage relationships and build networks.

Empathy

Sensing others' feelings and perspective, and taking an active interest in their concerns.

Service orientation

Anticipating, recognizing, and meeting customers' needs.

Developing others

Sensing what others need in order to develop, and strengthening their abilities.

Leveraging diversity

Cultivating opportunities through diverse people.

Political awareness

Reading a group's emotional currents and power relationships.

Social skills

What allow people to interact socially with one another and to successfully navigate social situations.

Influence

Exercising effective tactics for persuasion.

Communication

Sending clear and convincing messages.

Leadership

Inspiring and guiding groups and people.

Change catalyst

Initiating or managing change.

Conflict management

Negotiating and resolving disagreements.

Building bonds

Nurturing instrumental relationships.

Collaboration and cooperation

Working with others toward shared goals.

Team capabilities

Creating group cooperation in pursuing collective goals.

Perceiving emotion

Being aware of and recognizing other people's states, identifying emotions in others, and expressing one's own emotions and needs accurately and appropriately.

Using emotions to facilitate thought

Redirecting and prioritizing your thinking based on the feelings associated with those thoughts.

Understanding emotions

Understanding the relationships among various emotions, perceiving the causes and consequences of emotions, and understanding complex feelings and contradictory states.

Managing emotions

Being open to both pleasant and unpleasant feelings; monitoring and reflecting on your emotions.

Bar-on Model of Emotional Intelligence

A model developed by a Professor from University of Texas that demonstrates how categories of emotional intelligence directly affect our general mood and lead to effective performance.

Intrapersonal skills

This refers to how well you know and like yourself and how well and effective you can do the things you need to do to stay happy.

Emotional self-awareness

This refers to being aware of one's emotions. This means that you have to know how and why you feel the way you do.

Assertiveness

This refers to the ability to express your beliefs and thoughts openly in a constructive and non-violent manner.

Independence

This refers to making decisions on your own without having to get everyone's opinion.

Self-regard

To accurately perceive, understand and accept oneself. This means that one has to like oneself in spite of their flaws.

Self-actualization

This refers to being satisfied and comfortable with what you have achieved.

Interpersonal skills

Interpersonal skills refers to how well you can relate with others.

Empathy

This refers to making efforts to understand other people's situation or point of view, by putting yourself in their shoes.

Social responsibility

This refers to establishing a personal link with other people and also cooperating with other members in working towards a shared goal.

Interpersonal relationship

To establish mutually satisfying relationships and relate well with others.

Adaptability

Adaptability refers to the ability to adjust your thinking and behavior when faced with new or unexpected situations.

Reality testing

To objectively validate one's feelings and thinking with external reality.

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting your emotions, viewpoints, and actions as situations change.

Problem solving

This refers to approaching challenges step by step and not giving up in the face of obstacles.

Stress management

There are two skills that help manage stress.

Stress tolerance

This refers to recognizing causes of stress and responding in appropriate ways.

Impulse control

This refers to thinking carefully about potential consequences before you act.

General mood

When a person has a positive attitude, this improves his/her chances of doing well.

Optimism

Refers to looking at the bright side of a problem or difficulty and being confident that things will work out for the best.

Happiness

Being satisfied with yourself, with others and with the situation in general.

Benefits of emotional intelligence

It helps us to accurately perceive, appraise, and express emotions.

Emotional regulation

It helps us to regulate emotions in order to promote emotional and intellectual growth.

Conclusion on emotions

Emotions play a major role in our lives and it's very important that we identify the emotions we are experiencing, what triggered such emotions then we will be able to figure out how to deal with such emotions.