What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict.

How Does Emotional Intelligence Work?

• Strong emotional intelligence increases Teacher’s ability to make sound decisions, build and sustain collaborative relationships with Students and Parents along with Management Staff, deal effectively with stress, and cope to a greater degree with constant change.

• Balanced state of mind enables an individual not only to perform well in School and College, but also in accomplishing various other goals and objectives in his or her life.

• According to Daniel Goleman, an American psychologist who helped to popularize emotional intelligence, there are five key elements to it:

 Self-awareness.

 Self-regulation.

 Motivation.

 Empathy.

 Social skills.

Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to

understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate, effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict.

• EQ is responsible for 58%of professional success, regardless of job category.
• 90% of top performers score high on emotional intelligence; just 20% of low performers score high on emotional intelligence.
• A 40-year study of PhDs at UC Berkeley found that EQ was 400% more powerful than IQ when

predicting who would have success in their field.