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How Does Working With Emotional Intelligence Help Us In Daily Life?

Guest post by: Pramila Mathew

Article Overview: This article is second in line with my current topic of discussion – Emotional Intelligence. It describes the reasons for the particularly increasing relevance and importance of EI in today’s global workplace. The article focuses upon how working with Emotional Intelligence helps in daily life – both at work and at home.

How Does Working With Emotional Intelligence Help Us In Daily Life?

In my previous article, I gave a brief introduction to Emotional Intelligence - what it is, and how developing EI can help in accelerating and sustaining success.

This week I would like to focus upon how working with emotional intelligence helps us in daily life. I would like to put a start to it by first presenting readers with the question: Why has Emotional Intelligence gained so much importance today? The reasons would include:

• Changing nature and hierarchies at work

• Increasing complexity due to the impact of technology

• Rising competition

• Globalisation

• Increased stress levels

• Increased emphasis on performance

• Changing definition of success

So how does working with emotional intelligence help us in daily life?

• In a research conducted in the United States, partners in a multi-national consulting firm were assessed on Emotional Intelligence (EI); it was found that those with higher EI secured $1.2 million more profit.

• Take another instance of research finding. According to The Centre for Creative Leadership, the primary cause identified for career derailment amongst top executives was the lack of EI.

• Developing Emotional Intelligence skills also help to improve group dynamics. The magazine Business Week in its September 30th 2007 issue carried an article titled, ‘Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups.' It stressed that the group EI is more important than individual EI in organizations, thereby urging organizations to maximize the effectiveness of teams by focusing upon the group's EI. This would in turn result in collaboration, creativity and productivity.

• On a personal level, relationships become more positive. There will be a defined boundary of threshold for ideas, as opposed to a person who is seen as erratic and less emotionally intelligent. This means that others will be able to predict how a person with high EQ will respond to situations, as opposed to a person with low EQ, who will react in an unexpected and perhaps untimely manner. This type of self-awareness in an emotionally intelligent person leads to free flowing communication and less stress.

There are a lot of avenues for developing emotional intelligence today - emotional intelligence training and emotional intelligence coaching is something that my organization focuses upon. It helps the participant to consciously do some introspection and apply emotionally intelligent thinking in every step or decision that they choose to make.

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