Career Development Blog

Knowing a bit about Emotional Intelligence can help you move forward in your own career development 

What it it?  Emotional Intelligence is...

·        Flexible skills

·        Adaptability

·        Empathy

·        Awareness

·        Increases through out our lives

·        Maturity

Emotional Intelligence is also…

Intelligent use of your emotions…

You intentionally make your emotions work for you by using them to help guide your behavior and thinking of ways to enhance your skills.

Your EI can lead you to a number of reactions, both positive and negative…

“EI is an array of non-cognitive capabilities, competencies and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demand and pressures…”  Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.

·        Increasing you’re your EI can make you more efficient, productive, and successful…

·        Organizations can benefit from having emotionally sound people and offering opportunity to enhance EI skills in the workplace…

·        EI is important for both work and home life…

·        EI is linked to common sense and street smarts…

·        The more emotionally and socially intelligent one is, the easier it is to be successful in our daily lives…

What Emotional Intelligence is not…

·        Intelligence or Your IQ

·        Aptitude

·        Achievement

·        Job or vocational interest

·        Expertise

·        Personality

IQ is…

·        Intelligence – Cognitive abilities

·        Predicts a very small percentage of academic success

·        A non-predictor of success in life

·        Predicts a very small percentage of job success

·        Remains relatively stable throughout the life span