1. Lauren Armstrong 2. Marketing 103 sec. 770 3. 01-15-15 4. Emotional Intelligence Summary 5. Actual word count for this assignment 6. I am highly motivated, and I am committed to excellence. The belief that intellectual intelligence being the most important trait in the workplace, or more so a manager, is starting to dwindle with the realization that emotional intelligence is a more lasting productive trait to possess. In Kathy Simmons article, she shed light on the fact that experience, education and seemingly impeccable personality traits are not necessarily the recipe for success. Simmons provided information from several notable researchers and authors and results from a few different studies throughout her article to illustrate how …show more content…
In one article, “The researchers defined emotional intelligence as the compilation of four kinds of skills: perceiving and expressing emotions, understanding emotions, using emotions, and managing emotions.” This compilation led to the classification of five difference categories or “pillars” of emotional intelligence first published by well know New York Times columnist, Daniel Goleman. Goleman went into detail of the “five pillars of emotional intelligence” in his book Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ and Working With Emotional Intelligence. Goleman stated the five categories of “EI” are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and people skills. Self-awareness can best be described as fully understanding your own personal capacity, or being “comfortable in your own skin” (Simmons 2). Paired with self-awareness is self-regulation in that one not only is fully knowledgeable of their traits but also understands how to properly regulate their emotions throughout daily life. Being a motivated individual not only deals with the desire to complete tasks and inspire others due to compensation or rewards, but the …show more content…
Ultimately, emotional intelligence can be summed up by a story included in this article by Joe Jotkowitz with regards to a company just starting out and how it handled the unimaginable growth and their employees. The new company caught on to the fact that the overall positive mood of their employees was their main focus out of all business matters. “The EI of the company’s leadership predicted that if the staff was happy, then people would put in the extra hours, go the extra mile, put up with the ambiguity and stick with the company under strained conditions. (Simmons 6)” I personally can attest to the fact that being in an environment with an emotionally intelligent manager as well as coworkers creates the perfect environment for success and productivity whereas being in an environment where the emotional intelligence is lacking can cause a great deal of stress and disappointment. From Kathy Simmons article and personal experience myself, emotional intelligence is a key factor of a successful business, productive employees, and a pleasant and honest work
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage individual’s emotions. Also one should be able to recognize other people emotions to help improve their life. Goleman shares five elements to the theory, which are self-regulation, awareness of your own feelings, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Having self-regulation gives people the ability to recover form emotional distress and manage one’s emotion. Motivation helps one stay in the task they want to fulfill. Empathy is the awareness of what others are feeling and social skills is the ability to cooperate with people. All of the elements are used to make individuals to be a better person, to complete their goals and bring others on track. This can bring great change to an individual at any given moment in their life and help them develop as a better
The ability to express and control our own emotions is vital for our survival in society and the work place but so is our ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others. Salovey and Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence (Cherry, 2015).
The theory of emotional intelligence is relatively new, however the psychological theory has become prevalent and many entities have adapted the principles of this theory in order to enhance relations within the professional environment as well as increase performance which ultimately lead to a positive place of work. (Allan Chapman 2014)
Emotions are frequent companions in our lives. They come and go, and constantly change like the weather. They generate powerful chemicals that create positive and negative feelings, which have a powerful effect on leadership. Some emotions can either facilitate leadership, while others can detract from successful leadership. This course, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, has truly opened my eyes to the affects that emotions have on being an effective leader. Peter Salovey and John Mayer defined emotional intelligence as “the ability to monitor one’s own and other’s feelings and emotions to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (p. 5). This definition in itself states that emotions, whether it be ones own emotions or those of others, is the underlying factor that directs the actions of a leader. Therefore, throughout the progression (advancement) of this course, I have learned the importance of the development of emotional intelligence for being an effective leader, and because of this I plan on developing the capacities that contribute to being an emotionally intelligent leader for my own success, now and in the future.
(2013) separated emotional intelligence into four domains, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management (pp. 30, 38). These domains are then broken into two competencies. Self-awareness, the understanding of one 's emotions and being clear about one 's purpose, and self-management, the focused drive and emotional self-control, make up the personal competence (pp. 39, 45-46). While social awareness, or empathy and service, and relationship management, the handling of other people 's emotions, make up the social competence (pp. 39, 48, 51). These emotional intelligence competencies are not innate talents, but learned abilities, each of which contribute to making leaders more resonant and effective (p. 38). This is good news for me because I still have much to develop in regards to emotional
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At Harvard Business School they are looking for students that have empathy, perspective taking, rapport, and cooperation (book pg 12-13) Emotional Intelligence is written by other people they all agree that it is important for leaders that the old way of thinking of leadership has change and a new one emphasizing emotional intelligence. An article from the Huffingtonpost said, “Great leaders are aware of their own leadership style. For them, having awareness of how their style influences their team, makes these already great leaders, exceptional. Truly great leaders identify, understand and not only manage their own emotions, But are able to do that with others in a very empowering way ( huff).” On the Forbes website an article written by a former Navy Seal talks about the importance of emotional intelligence, “My past experience in combat required me to develop emotional intelligence quickly. A skill that takes constant improvement but that has been beneficial in current leadership roles (Use of
In the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, the central thesis that he tries to point out is that emotional intelligence may be more important than I.Q. in determining a person’s well being and success in life. At first I didn’t know what Goleman was talking about when he said emotional intelligence, but after reading the book I have to say that I agree completely with Goleman. One reason for my acceptance of Goleman's theory is that academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. To me, emotions can be just as intelligent as your I.Q. In this essay I hope to provide sufficient evidence to show why I agree with Goleman’s thesis on emotional intelligence.
We probably all know people, either at work or in our personal lives, who are really good listeners. No matter what kind of situation we're in, they always seem to know just what to say – and how to say it – so that we're not offended or upset. They're caring and considerate, and even if we don't find a solution to our problem, we usually leave feeling more hopeful and optimistic. We probably also know people who are masters at managing their emotions. They don't get angry in stressful situations. Instead, they have the ability to look at a problem and calmly find a solution. They're excellent decision makers, and they know when to trust their intuition. Regardless of their strengths, however, they're usually willing to look at themselves honestly. They take criticism well, and they know when to use it to improve their performance. As a case in point, I will evaluate my former manager on each of the five components of emotional intelligence. First, she had high levels of self-awareness. For examp...
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Firstly, self-awareness is referring to a person who have a clear cognizance of their personality, including thoughts, motivation, beliefs, weaknesses, strengths and emotions, further this skill allows people to make a better decision (Path way of happiness, 2016). Next, managing emotion, in other word, self-management: handling suffering emotional in an effectual way, moreover knowing how to lead yourself to positive emotions and not falling to negative thought. Furthermore, thirdly, empathy is a significant aspect of emotional intelligence. Following to the research from Cherniss (2000) discovered that most successful people in the workplace and social life having a capability to identify other’s emotions. Lastly, skill-relationship, which is all those three combined together and use it in efficiently way. As a matter of fact, by Goleman (2012), part of human’s brain supports social and emotional intelligence due to the neuroplasticity of the brain has a great influence on repeated experiences that influences to present and future decision. In addition, the executive function helps to manage emotion and helps one’s paying
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Now for the professional stuff, how much does Emotional Intelligence have on your professional success? Lets just say a lot, emotional intelligence is the strongest predictor of performance. Your emotional intelligence impacts most everything you say or do each day, and it can be developed. The pathway for your emotional intelligence starts in the brain, at the spinal cord. Your primary senses enter here and must travel to the front of your brain before you can think about your experiences. They first however travel through the limbic system, the place where emotions are generated. So we have an emotional reaction to events before the rational brain is able to engage. It requires effective communication between the two parts of your brain. Emotional Intelligence has a huge system making it so much easier for you to control and stay aware of your emotions. Now, I’m going to tell you my experiences with Emotional
Not having emotional intelligence will bring selfishness and aggogance to the workplace therefore high emotionally intelligence will bring positive relationship between you and your workmates in your