"Emotional intelligence (EI) is most often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions."
The ability to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.
Self-Awareness: Being able to recognize and understand your own emotions, strengths, weaknesses and values.
Self-Regulation: Being able to manage and control your emotions and impulses in order to avoid negative outcomes.
Motivation: Having the ability to set and achieve goals through focus, determination and resilience.
Social Awareness: Being able to recognize and understand the emotions, needs and perspectives of others.
Relationship Management: Being able to connect and communicate effectively with others, resolve conflicts and maintain healthy relationships.
Communication Skills: Being able to express your thoughts, ideas and emotions clearly and effectively to others.
Conflict Resolution: Being able to resolve conflicts in a healthy and productive manner.
Empathy: Being able to relate to and understand the feelings and perspectives of others.
Problem Solving: Being able to identify problems, generate solutions and implement effective strategies.
Stress Management: Being able to handle and cope with stress in a healthy and productive manner.
Mindfulness: Being able to be present in the moment, aware and focused.
Compassion: Being able to care for and show concern for others.
Resilience: Being able to bounce back from setbacks and persist through challenges.
Teamwork: Being able to work effectively with others towards a common goal.
Time Management: Being able to manage your time effectively and prioritize your tasks.
Self-awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one's own emotions, strengths, and weaknesses.
Self-regulation: The ability to control and manage emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
Motivation: The ability to stay focused and driven, persisting towards goals, even in the face of difficulties.
Empathy: The ability to understand and feel for the experiences and emotions of others.
Social skills: The ability to effectively communicate, manage conflicts, collaborate, and build and maintain relationships with others.
"The term gained popularity in the 1995 bestselling book Emotional Intelligence by science journalist Daniel Goleman."
"Goleman defined EI as the array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance."
"Some researchers suggest that emotional intelligence can be learned and strengthened, while others claim it is an inborn characteristic."
"In 1987, Keith Beasley first published the term Emotional Quotient (EQ), named after the Intelligence Quotient (IQ)."
"The trait model, developed by Konstantinos V. Petrides in 2001, focuses on self-reporting of behavioral dispositions and perceived abilities."
"The ability model, developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 2004, focuses on the individual's ability to process emotional information and use it to navigate the social environment."
"Goleman's original model may now be considered a mixed model that combines what has since been modeled separately as ability EI and trait EI."
"More recent research has focused on emotion recognition, which refers to the attribution of emotional states based on observations of visual and auditory nonverbal cues."
"Studies show that people with high EI have greater mental health, job performance, and leadership skills."
"Although no causal relationships have been shown."
"EI is typically associated with empathy because it involves a person connecting their personal experiences with those of others."
"Since its popularization in recent decades, methods of developing EI have become widely sought by people seeking to become more effective leaders."
"Criticisms have centered on whether EI is a real intelligence, and whether it has incremental validity over IQ and the Big Five personality traits."
"However, meta-analyses have found that certain measures of EI have validity even when controlling for IQ and personality."