Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

1. What is Emotional Intelligence?

   • We define Emotional Intelligence as the ability to: Recognize, understand and manage our own emotions and rercognize, understand and influence the emotion of others.
     • Managing emotions is especially important in situations when we are under pressure. For example, when we are: Giving and receiving feedback, meeting tight deadlines, dealing with challenging relationships, not having enough resources, navigating chance, working through setbacks and failure.

2. Where did the term Emotional Intelligence come from?

   • The term Emotional Intelligence was created by two researchers, Peter Salavoy and John Mayer in their article "Emotional Intelligence" in the Journal Imagination, Cognition, and personality in 1990. It was later popularized by Dan Goleman in his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence.

3. Why Emotional Intelligence is important?

   • It´s a cientific fact that emotions precede thought. When emotions run high, they change the way our brains function... Diminishing our cognitive abilities, decision making-powers, adn even interpersonal skills.

4. Emotional Intelligence is a skill that can be learned and measured: Our level of Emotional Intelligence can be measured as our emotional quotient.

5. How Emotional Intelligence training can help: Unlike your IQ, having a high level of Emotional Intelligence (EI), or a high emotional quotient (EQ) is not something set in stone. Luckily, Emotional Intelligence is a skill we can develop and our EQ can grow troughout our lives.