Emotional Intelligence Harvard Business Review Essay

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In class we read definitive articles from Harvard Business Review on emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to to control, express, and be aware of one’s emotions, allowing one to handle relationships judiciously and empathetically. I enjoyed participating in the literature circles on the grounds that we were able to hear other opinions and other people’s take on the reading. It allowed us to have an open mind and allowed us to get a better, or new, understanding of the material. For the most part, I did enjoy the different articles. I liked how I was able to connect the readings to my own personal life and experiences. It taught me how I could become a better student, and even a better decent human being while out in the real world.
The first article we read was all about resilience. …show more content…

In this chapter, I learned new ways to give and to accept feedback. Personally, I like getting feedback. I like it because it allows me to improve on my work. For example, whenever I write essays I like to have another person look at it so they can catch any small, or even big, mistakes that I may have done. This chapter also taught me that too much negative feedback can really take a toll on a person negatively. When you give somebody too much negative feedback, that person can start to think that they’re doing everything completely wrong and can really be detrimental to their self-esteem. To give good feedback, you should give the person more positive feedback than negative. You should use constructive rather than destructive feedback. Constructive feedback is more information specific and issue specific based on observations without using judgement. Destructive feedback is full of judgement and isn’t helping the person learn. When you get the feedback, it is best to reframe it and then reconstruct it to your advantage. Getting feedback is always a good tool to get but not when it only contains

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