Emotional Intelligence: The Captain Of My Junior Varsity Soccer Team

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Emotional intelligence or the ability to recognize your own emotions and those of others and react to it, is used immensely throughout life. With great emotional intelligence you can handle whatever life throws your way. To be a great leader, strong emotional intelligence is needed because of the diverse personalities in the group. Being not only able to understand the emotions that others express but being able to react and assist in anyway possible is essential if you desire to be looked up to and appreciated as a leader. During my freshman year, I was the captain of my junior varsity soccer team and strong emotional intelligence was necessary. As the season went on I found myself in situations where I had to understand my teammates emotions and I had to react accordingly in order to ensure they could grow from the situation and feel improved upon coming out of it; for example, about mid-way through the season, most my teammates were fed up with the captains and the coach and they began to fool around and stop listening. …show more content…

Some of my teammates just wanted to be heard so they felt they had a voice and an impact towards the team and they felt they did not have that liberty before. Fixing the problem, the team sat down and just talked and found out ways to fix the problems that needed fixing. Without an acute emotional intelligence, the captains and I would not have been able to get the team back onto track and to go forward to win a few more games. As a leader, I felt as if I affected the other players and even permeated the emotional intelligence that I felt I radiated during that

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