What is Emotional Intelligence?

What is Emotional Intelligence and why is it important?

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a set of emotional and social skills that collectively establish how well we:

Emotional Intelligence can be cultivated, developed and change over time. It ia specific form of intelligence that can be substantially strengthened and developed. Through the test-retest model it is possible to track changes and improvements over time.

Therefore it is not the innate characteristics we are born with, such as:

Perceive and express ourselves

Develop & maintain social relationships

Use emotional information in an effective & meaningful way

Cope with challenges

Personality

Being overly emotional

Why is Emotional Intelligence important?

Emotional Intelligence can be developed on multiple levels and specific areas of interest, including enhancing individual skill sets, developing leadership potential, encouraging team cohesion and developing successful teamwork models.

This can be done in an individual basis, or as part of a wider professional team context.

Emotional Intelligence is proven to be a key indicator of performance and development potential, along with improved wellbeing in the workplace. People higher in Emotional Intelligence communicate effectively, form strong relationships and create powerful coping stratergies.

Emotional Intelligence is strongly related to leadership competencies, which correlate with productivity, lower employee turnover and increased efficiency. Through adopting a Transformational Leadership model, individual EI strengths are developed, to inspire teamwork towards a common goal. Multiple studies have show that Emotional Intelligence accounts for almost half of the varience between high and low performers in the workplace.

Highly correlates

to Job Performance

Identifies effective Leadership Skills

Enhances Team

Cohesion &

Cooperation

Focuses on targetted areas

of development

Highlights areas of agreement and/or discrepencies between self and external perceptions

Improves overall

Well-Being