The act of knowing, understanding, and responding to emotions, overcoming stress in the moment, and being aware of how your words and actions affect others, is described as emotional intelligence (Gleeson, 2014, para.4).
Emotional intelligence deals with one’s emotions, the ability to recognize their emotions and administer them appropriately. The ability to control reactions and manage inner feelings is very beneficial for people in general so they can handle the many difficult and trying experiences that will occur in this life. Emotional intelligence is a concept that many people do not take into consideration when they are measuring their personal intelligence. However, emotional intelligence is an important concept to understand, especially
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. . And if you can’t fine-tune your own actions – keeping yourself from blowing up or falling to pieces, marshaling positive drives – you’ll be poor at handling the people you deal with.
Star leaders are stars at leading themselves, first (para.5).
Whether someone is a leader or not, developing emotional intelligence is essential to improving and gaining an understanding of how appropriately react to the emotions of other people. Learning to be reflective before being reactive and developing emotional intelligence is not an easy task. Increasing this type of intelligence takes unrelenting effort and perseverance to become emotionally enhanced. The key is wanting to do it and making a commitment to work on it one step at a time (Sterrett,
IMPROVING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
2000, p.6). Many people do not realize the importance of adjusting how they react
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because many reactions are instantaneous and occur without consciously thinking about the behavior. Emotions are engrained into everything we do, therefore, it is essential to try and understand why we react and feel the way we do. Emotional awareness is essential to improving leadership abilities and becoming a better person