Interpersonal Intelligence

While intellectual quotient is commonly considered as being the most significant qualification for success, ones ability to cope with the demands of high-pressure environments, commanded by university and the workplace, is attributed largely to emotional intelligence. Where individuals exercise positive intrapersonal perception to self-evaluate and improve individual performance, they are more able approach a given situation effectively with the awareness of their strengths and weaknesses. Further, where one is able to communicate and contribute positively to collaborative efforts in exercising interpersonal perception, they are able to establish more effective relationships, as well as develop capabilities that are vital in being a successful leader. The ability to be critical of ones behavior, combined with the practice self-regulation, thus allows individuals to use emotions to facilitate the progress of tasks and projects in order to attain both personal and communal goals, ultimately establishing success both within the workplace and university.

The mastery of self-awareness allows individuals to better regulate emotions in decision-making, which will ultimately results in more effective outcomes. Within university, self-regulated learning acts as a ’vehicle for success’ (Bercher, 2012) in its potential to improve exam and the academic performance of students. In the application of a self-assessment process, 87 per cent of students reported as having benefited from an improvement in examination marks (Bercher, 2012). By reflecting on past performance and making cognitive judgments, the individual learns to distinguish between learned and less understood material and use self-monitoring tools to adjust their strategy accord...

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...n negotiations: they become cognitively focused and behaviourly tough, and therefore claim more value. Angry low-power negotiators, on the other hand, become less cognitively focused; though they try to be tough, their toughness doesn’t lead better performance; and they claim less value. (Overbeck, J.R., Neale, M.A., Govan, C.L., 2010). Where one able to comprehend the power of their emotions, _____

SIMILARLY, The exercise of such perceptions will lead to greater NETWORKING within university

There exists a compelling relationship between an individual’s interpersonal and intrapersonal perception and their capacity to succeed within the workplace and university. In determining the success and functionality the exercise of such perceptions will evidentially lead to a greater and more effective action and communication that is suitable to the situation at hand.