Question

What are the Key components of Emotional Intelligence and how do you apply these components in the work world? Also if you see yourself lacking in some of these components how would you work to apply them in the future?

Answer 1

Emotional intelligence means the understanding of a one's own emotions as well as the emotions of people around us.The key components of emotions are Self awareness ,self regulation, motivation,Empathy , social skills.Self awareness means knowing one's one strengths and weaknesses and thus behaving with others in a soft manner.Self regulation means staying in control and not taking hasty decisions,not talking rudely to others , not compromising on values etc..Motivation means motivating oneself to do extremely high standard of work. It also means maintaining a positive attitude towards all problems etc.Empathy is needed to win the people to your side .In order to get respect and loyalty from the team members it is necessary to be empathic towards them so that they understand that they are getting the care that they need.Leaders with social skills are good communicators.People with good social skills manage any change that takes place and solve conflicts between team members.Praising others is also a good social skill.

Person with good emotional intelligence is a good co worker .. In order to improve performance and relationship with colleagues it is necessary to use emotional intelligence . Stamping your feet and yelling at employees to work hard will have short term good result but in the long term the result will be bad.To maintain a relationship of trust and respect with employees give good result.Showing empathy gives signal to employees that the employer cares for them.

If I lack some components of emotional intelligence I would try to cultivate a culture that would give encouragement to emotional intelligence.The need is to show employees that the organization cares.It is necessary to make people feel that you care for them as individual and not their performance in the workplace.I should try to improve my social skills . I would try to improve social skill by listening actively to what people have to say and try to solve conflicts.I would build good communication skill to make friends and to gain trust of co workers.