Emotional Intelligence: The New IQ

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This paper examines the concepts behind emotional intelligence (also know as emotional quotient or EQ) which in simple terms, can be viewed as being street smart, knowing when to share information with co-workers, when to laugh at your boss's jokes or when to speak up during a business meeting. It analyzes how by its very nature EQ involves self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy and strong communication skills. It looks at how supporters of emotional intelligence feel that EQ is essential in a high profile career management or executive profession and how it is possible to increase EQ with time, training and practice.

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"How does EQ (emotional quotient) differ from IQ (intelligence quotient)? EQ is not the opposite of IQ, if you are lucky you have both a high EQ and a high IQ. IQ is a statistically derived number, which indicates relative and comparative abilities that can be used to obtain academic skills and knowledge. You have hundreds of specific mental abilities. According to the IQ philosophy, some of these abilities can be measured accurately. Some of these measurements can be reliable predictors of an individual's academic achievements. Though an IQ test measures only a few of a human's mental abilities, these few abilities are targeted for measurement, because they are well known to positively correlate highly to many other human abilities. How high you score in one of these measured abilities will strongly indicate how high you would be expected to score on the unmeasured abilities. It is a widely held theory that IQ can not be increased, but is a truism much like height, hair or eye color."

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