Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It can be further broken down into other skills that include the following: the ability to perceive and identify emotions accurately in yourself and other people, the ability to use communication and language to describe the emotions, the ability to manage and regulate your own emotions and the emotions of other people, and the understanding that emotions are a form of data that can be used to assist in solving conflict, problem solving, social situations, negotiation, and appropriate behavior.
The understanding of emotional intelligence also contains some attributes that assist in supporting its definition. Some of these …show more content…

Although this definition is a general, intellgience can further be related to the abilities of an individual to comphrehend and the intellectual power of an individual, not in a emotional based context. This includes the "ability to learn, understand and apply information to skills, logical reasoning, word comprehension, math skills, abstract and spatial thinking, filter irrelevant information." (diffen.com, 2017) There are different types of intellignece that can apply to a person. Some of the types of intelligence include musical, spatial, and naturalisitc. Generally, the most common way of identifying and interpreting a person's intellecutal intelligence is the use of a standarized …show more content…

There is always room for growth and improvement. The military is a very structred enviornment that is consistent in how it conducts business. Yet, the military career will come to an end and my intent is to get another job in the civilian sector. Working on improving my emotional intelligence now, will benefit me and those i plan to work with in the future. (As a side note, I think the main reason why my relationship managment is so low is becuase in the military we are constitnetly moving around and locations that I am stationed are very

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