The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is how well we can handle ourselves in our relationships. It’s how well we can tune into other people and how they are feeling without them verbally telling us. Emotional intelligence is comprised of several different domains and competencies. It is understood that not all leaders have all of these sectors of Emotional intelligence, but you can still be a great leader without having all of the competencies. Emotional intelligence includes these four domains: self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management. Self awareness is the idea of knowing what you are feeling and what your emotions are. Self management has to do with the idea of how you manage stress, do you fall apart under the pressure

The emotional intelligence of one person and their ability to use it for good or bad can easily affect the whole group. At my friend’s workplace, the human resource unit was conducting an experiment on the contagion of moods. They had a group of people come in and rate what their moods were after interacting with their fellow coworkers, they would rate this on a scale with one representing being in an awful mood and ten being in a fantastic mood. One worker was told by the experimenters to act very enthusiastically and upbeat. So when all the workers involved with the experiment entered the room, everyone interacted with one another and then proceed to rate their moods. Everyone generally rated low moods, on the mood scale they put fours and fives, and the enthusiastic worker put a ten. Four hours later, the workers returned to interact and rate their moods. Everyone’s mood increased to high sevens and eights. After more experiments by this company it was concluded that one person’s happiness and positivity can become contagious to others. This shows how easily people are influenced by others, and how their moods can be changed based on a single person. If there is a person in the workforce that has a high emotional intelligence, they can transform the group they are in to be more positive. However, if someone has a low emotional intelligence and cannot

Each individual and each group changes how the organization functions. The emotional intelligence of every person is important because it ultimately contributes to the overall success and efficiency of an organization. For the whole organization, emotional intelligence affects the power, structure, culture and so on. The aspect of social skills in an organization is very important because it addresses questions such as, how well can our workers work together? Can they deal with conflict? Do people enjoy working with one another in our company? Do we have good leaders that set the standard and display this level of emotional intelligence for others to follow? If our workers do not have a well developed emotional intelligence, it can cause the whole company to ultimately fail. A company won’t succeed if the workers are unwilling to work together, and they are even more unlikely to succeed if the workers are unable to manage their personal emotions. In an organization there needs to be a clear structure and source of power. If the structure is not clear, workers may not have an understanding of what job advancements are available, and so they may not see an opportunity to advance. If the source of power is unclear, people may not know who to listen to for instruction and other people may try to overthrow one another to try to become the source of power. The whole organization is extremely dependant on the