By Julie Merten,
Star Publications, Sauk Centre, MN
Territory Sales Representative
Everyone has likely experienced a time when their perspective and feelings were misunderstood. Whether it be within your personal life or a working relationship it is important to accurately relate emotion. During our February MVP meeting, we discussed how people express emotions. Unsurprisingly, I discovered how difficult it can be to accurately decipher the varying degrees of how someone expresses their emotions. Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to be able to understand and relay your emotions to others as well as recognize the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence can be broken down into five parts.
Self-Awareness:
Often described as the first step and most important component of achieving emotional intelligence. Self-awareness is the ability to be aware of and have understanding of one’s emotions and feelings. It is important to be able to convey your feelings in words to others and to understand the consequences of your emotions.
Self-Regulation:
Once one has mastered the step of self-awareness, they can then move on to the second step of emotional intelligence which is self-regulation. Those who are able to regulate their emotions know how to manage their emotions and the associated actions that typically come along with them. It is important to not react impulsively to emotions in the moment.
Empathy:
Empathy can be defined as the ability to accurately understand and be able to identify others’ emotions and feelings. It is important to be able to decipher whether emotions are genuine or false. Everyone feels emotions, whether it is pain or happiness, at different levels of intensity. Being able to read others’ facial expressions and nonverbal queues including tone of voice and body language is helpful.
Social Skills:
Those with a higher level of emotional intelligence are better suited to interact with others in social settings. Emotional intelligence helps build relationships with friends, family, partners and colleagues.
Motivation:
In order to achieve, improve and maintain emotional intelligence one must be motivated. Those that are motivated work hard to achieve their goals and recognize that the reward received is worth the time and effort needed to achieve it worth the time and effort needed to achieve it.
Star Publications, Sauk Centre, MN
Territory Sales Representative
Everyone has likely experienced a time when their perspective and feelings were misunderstood. Whether it be within your personal life or a working relationship it is important to accurately relate emotion. During our February MVP meeting, we discussed how people express emotions. Unsurprisingly, I discovered how difficult it can be to accurately decipher the varying degrees of how someone expresses their emotions. Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to be able to understand and relay your emotions to others as well as recognize the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence can be broken down into five parts.
Self-Awareness:
Often described as the first step and most important component of achieving emotional intelligence. Self-awareness is the ability to be aware of and have understanding of one’s emotions and feelings. It is important to be able to convey your feelings in words to others and to understand the consequences of your emotions.
Self-Regulation:
Once one has mastered the step of self-awareness, they can then move on to the second step of emotional intelligence which is self-regulation. Those who are able to regulate their emotions know how to manage their emotions and the associated actions that typically come along with them. It is important to not react impulsively to emotions in the moment.
Empathy:
Empathy can be defined as the ability to accurately understand and be able to identify others’ emotions and feelings. It is important to be able to decipher whether emotions are genuine or false. Everyone feels emotions, whether it is pain or happiness, at different levels of intensity. Being able to read others’ facial expressions and nonverbal queues including tone of voice and body language is helpful.
Social Skills:
Those with a higher level of emotional intelligence are better suited to interact with others in social settings. Emotional intelligence helps build relationships with friends, family, partners and colleagues.
Motivation:
In order to achieve, improve and maintain emotional intelligence one must be motivated. Those that are motivated work hard to achieve their goals and recognize that the reward received is worth the time and effort needed to achieve it worth the time and effort needed to achieve it.