What is Emotional Intelligence?

What is Emotional Intelligence?

There are some misconceptions that we might happened to see in our life about Emotional Intelligence:

• "Gender-specific profile" of strong and weak points, as it is believed that women turn to think by heart while men think by head.
• Emotional Intelligence was interpreted as 'being nice'
• Emotional Intelligence was interpreted as giving free rein to feelings or letting it all hang out.
• Emotional Intelligence was usually fixed genetically or was also developed only in early childhood like in people's characters.

Then why this thing matters now?

• People desperately felt the need for connection, empathy and open communications.
• Downsizing in organizations in which the remain people are more accountable and visible in managing one's emotions, handling encounters well, teamwork and leadership.
• The globalization of the workforce.
• As business changes, they lead to new challenges and demand new talents with 2 abilities that become crucially important. They are 'team building' and 'adapting to change'.

IQ vs Emotional Intelligence

Working with Emotional Intelligence 

by Daniel Goleman 

Do you really think that the IQ takes second position to emotional intelligence in determining outstanding job performance?

Reading Daniel Goleman's book about "working with emotional intelligence", it is believed that nowadays the appraisal is determined not only by the outstanding work performance, however the attitude and characters  are also the key to judge whether the person is competent enough to stay in his/her position at work.