The Importance Of EQ And Emotional Intelligence

Business culture is a constantly changing and evolving entity. In the past, it was not unheard of for businesses to praise high intelligence, wanting to employ people who scored the highest in their classes and were top ranking in IQs. However, the business world may be changing in that respect. Nowadays, rather than placing an emphasis on intelligence, businesses are now looking toward another more social set of skills. Businesses today are more likely to at a person’s EQ, rather than IQ as they once had, because it relies not on intelligence but, rather, on adaptability, social skills, and communication skills.

EQ, or Emotional Intelligence, is the awareness, recognition, and management of a person’s own emotions and the emotions of those around you. Now, what does this mean? In laden terms, it basically means that a person with high emotional intelligence is more likely to adapt and perceive social situations. Having a higher EQ can result in being more personable, more being an extravert since you understand people easier than someone who has a lower EQ. While most would believe that having a particularly high intelligence score would result in a lower emotional score, as we as a society

The first way EQ may affect a person is internally. As above mentioned, EQ is the measure of awareness and management of emotions, and those traits start with self. Self-awareness is the ability to understand when you are feeling certain emotions, and, when EQ is high, is the ability to detect when a change of emotion is happening and why it is happening. Being aware of these emotions will help to keep control of them. In conversation, when people with a high EQ begin to become angry or uncomfortable, or even extremely joyful, they understand the appropriate way to express, or repress, such emotions as the situation allows. It’s all about being in control and understanding where one’s barriers can be peeled back or put