Emotional Intelligence: How Teamwork Is Essential To Life

Teamwork is essential to life. Throughout one’s life, teamwork will be used quit often whether it be because of school, any relationship, and most importantly any job. I decided to base my question off teamwork because it has and will continue to have such a huge impact on my life. As I aspire to become a nurse, teamwork will be vital in all the steps that are necessary in becoming one. On top of that, after I am officially a registered nurse I will use teamwork for the rest of my career. As of now, I am a full-time student working a part-time and I see now more than ever how important teamwork is. In my research question, I incorporated two factors that I think are the most important regarding solid teamwork: Emotional Intelligence and comprehending

Emotional intelligence is essential to teamwork for many reasons the most important one being that with a lack of understanding of other’s emotions there will always be a certain barrier that will either slow down teamwork or make it harder to get through certain goals or objectives. Throughout the second article chosen, Chein Farh, Seo, and Tesluk (2012) discuss their findings which were based on how emotional intelligence enhances teamwork in a work environment. The main point to take away and consider from this article is that “employees with higher overall [emotional Intelligence] and emotional perception ability exhibit higher teamwork effectiveness.” This is significant to the hypothesis because it explains that one’s emotional intelligence is in fact, an important contributing factor to

However, in reading Gaddis’s some inconsistencies can be found. For instance, when Gaddis(2016) explains that “emotional intelligence as an overall measure had no significant relationship to teacher organizational citizenship behavior,” but then he goes on and says “competencies found to be significantly negative were: emotional self-control, pattern recognition and networking whereas teamwork, achievement, orientation, empathy, and initiative were all found to be significantly positive.” These two quotes seem to contradict each other. On one hand, he explains that emotional intelligence was not a major factor but on the other emotional intelligence was considered a negative and positive factor. According to Gaddis’s research, if emotional self-control is negative than the schools should focus on that aspect of emotional intelligence in training. Either way it emotional intelligence is necessary. Conclusively, there are two main factors that play a significant role in teamwork: having a common goal of the task at hand and obtaining emotional intelligence. Understanding the main goal/ having planned out guidelines will ensure that a team comes up with the same outcome. Likewise, having emotional intelligence will also greatly impact a group, with a higher understanding of emotional intelligence forms a better