Your story related to emotional intelligence may show a situation, for example, in which you were, say, panicky or having anxiety, or felt unsafe, or threatened by someone, or in a provocative environment, etc. in which you saved yourself from an unhappy situation by controlling/regulating your emotions and managing them well. Or it may be about a situation where you became a victim because you could not control your emotions, and say became very angry or indulged in violence, or suffered a loss, etc.
I have attached some PPTs that show what technically emotional intelligence is.
Yes, Pardis, in a way we can say that.
Some of us get panicky in situations of anxiety or get enraged at the other person's behaviour. This shows our low emotional quotient (EQ), or low emotional intelligence, Tools have been developed by many psychologists containing tests of EQ. One can take these tests to know one's scores on different dimensions of EI. This tells us how emotional intelligent we are.
One can improve one's EQ by controlling one's anger or anxiety, or sense of insecurity, etc.
Many time, there are cases of road rage where some one by driving a little carelessly hits another person vehicle, and both drivers start hitting each other. Sometimes, people lose their life in such incidents, which of courses is quite senseless. That shows high sense of ego and low EQ. It happens on Delhi roads every third day. If one builds a workable agenda of improving one's EI, it can be useful. We can train our children to this effect and develop on them values that include ego control.
Yes, Pardis you are right. Situations can be very many--danger, feeling unsafe--anxiety--fear of the unknown--tense--too much excitement--anger--and so on.
Pardis: Please narrate one or more stories (in around 100 words) that you encountered and how you handled that for the benefit of all researchers on RG. Please....... That is what the question asks!
Dear i have one thing to ask here,,, It is said rather fact that an employee gets hopeless and demotivated over the attitudes of senior management if his concerns are not addressed amicably. This is more pronounced when he knows that his complaints will never be addressed and will fall pray to the internal politics of senior management to support each other,,, and he gets fearful that he may loose his own job.. Finally, he convinces himself to keep restrain and just work silently to ensure his job safety. So his EI has gone to dogs. But here I have a question that in such a scenario "Should we expect this demotivated employee to do well in his job or do just as per demands of his job with no extra input that may contribute towards organizational betterment?
Dear Colleagues
Thank you for asking this useful question.
Some of my articles and presentations about Emotional Intelligence:
Article Emotional awareness and emotional intelligence
Presentations:
Conference Paper Emotional Intelligence in Traditional Chinese Medicine business
Presentation Emotional Intelligence in Leadership for Multidisciplinary H...
Presentation Emotional Intelligence in Nursing Curriculum – Speaker - Fre...
Conference Paper “Activities and case studies of Emotional Intelligence in Nu...
Presentation Emotional Intelligence in Nursing Curriculum
Conference Paper The need of Emotional Intelligence for TCM business
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Kind regards
Tiago