Emotional Intelligence

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the Mayer and Salovey's model of emotional intelligence (EI) states that emotional intelligence, which is a person's capacity to understand emotional information and to reason with emotions, can be divided into four branches of abilities. The author stresses that emotional intelligence should not be perceived as just an added factor to IQ. The paper discusses five component abilities of EI: self-awareness, management, motivation, empathy and handling relationships.

Table of Contents:
Mayer and Salovey's Model
The Feelings and Emotions
Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Components of Emotional Intelligence

From the Paper:

"Thus, emotional intelligence is really important to attaining and maintaining good leadership qualities. And it is true. Knowledge about numbers, language, marketing stuffs or even about military, finance, church and the people among other are important, but that does not assure that one can be an effective leader if he/she has all those qualities. Compassion for the people, commitment for the job, passion to work and to understanding the needs of the people around, being able to empathize - these are equally important attributes of the leader and even of the most ordinary citizen."

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