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To answer this question the following characteristics needs to be stated:

Self Awareness, Mood management, Self Motivation, Empathy and Managing Relationships.

Emotional Intelligence is the natural ability. The natural power that changes other powers. A student for example, who acquires the ability to study seriously, is bound to succeed.

The traits that make this possible are:

Confidence, Interest, discipline, Intentionality and the ability to communicate and cooperate.

Emotional intelligence is an attitude cultivated overtime. Emotional intelligence doesn’t mean being in good situation or enjoying a happy life but rather it has more to do with turning every negative to positive, managing every negative emotion and changing it to positivism through expressing feelings and emotions appropriately, networking with different individuals in order to achieve certain goals or objective.

The global interest in Emotional Intelligence brought about a serious research and this researches have concluded that individuals who discipline their feeling properly and work effectively with others are more  likely to live are fulfilled ,happy life.

First of all a person should be intelligent enough to perceive emotion. Facial countenance such as sadness, happiness is easily noticed in humans. Having the ability to look beyond the present vicissitude and looking beyond the other people negative thoughts or perception towards a particular issue.

 

Secondly, using emotion to facilitate thought, facilitate thoughts in terms of creativity. Most people with melancholy temperament are known to be quite creative when depressed some others carry out creative thoughts when there in a positive mood  but either way direct thinking is applied towards any thing the individual is emotionally attached to.

 

Next is the ability to comprehend emotion. Information is conveyed by emotion. For example happiness usually shows a vivid desire to laugh and be with fiends or loved ones. Fear shows a need to escape life calamities; there is also sexual emotion and so on. All emotion however portrays its potential messages. Messages which lead to actions, anger for example might result to violence or loneliness, sexual emotion or feeling   turns to the individual needing sex. The main thing is the comprehension of these emotional messages.

 

 

 Finally managing emotion, which is possible. An individual must know that emotions only convey messages that might determine the next line of action. Being open to detect emotional signs or signals is very paramount. The tragic side of life has to be overlooked and positive thoughts should be regulated and well managed.

  

Many children today are experiencing some form of emotional behavior. When these emotions are not adequately dealt with from childhood this usually leads to problems. Some adults are known to harbor hatred towards certain person that might have hurt them many years ago. Some drop out of college for the mere reason that they don’t like their teacher. Some men can’t fall in love again because of the past failed relationships likewise women who get heart broken in the course of relationship find it hard to get emotionally attached to a man again.

 

Emotional Intelligence needs an observation of one’s own abilities and faults. A deeper look into how present decisions are framed through beliefs and past experiences. The ability of an individual to separate the interference of past negative experiences from affecting current issues makes the individual an articulate person.

Failure to manage one’s negative emotion might result in poor output; a study report by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Institute Of Management in the year 2002 showed that the quality of leadership in a particular workplace was poor resulting from bad relationship in the work force which resulted to low turnover. More research reinforces a positive relationship lead to high financial turnover.

Human relationships cannot be discussed without talking about emotion because it plays a vital role in every human setting.

How person views the value of life. Future goals, Social status. Explaining these values in tangible terms may not be well understood because theses are thoughts or ideas, motivation and relationships that are relative to the people involved.

In the education scenario, educators are alarmed by the astronomical rise in the level of misunderstanding among young school children, starting from low self esteem to drugs and alcohol abuse resulting to depression and tragically most times leads to suicide. So there is a rush to teach the students the needed dexterity for Emotional Intelligence. The inclusion of Emotional Intelligence in training programs has helped students communicate and associate better and also acts as a source of motivation there increasing the student’s performance in school.

In the business world, the role of Emotional Intelligence cannot be overemphasized, the go-getters and ‘never give up’ tend to survive in the business scenario. Pessimism is one negative emotion that is not tolerated. The ability to step aside from emotional reaction in an upsetting vicissitude and look vividly at the main event and being totally honest which is sometimes challenging but enables you to know the steps to take in confronting your business partners , knowing exactly what they want and arranging your priorities prudently.

Taking test on Emotional Intelligence is a known thing. Check this:

You are in a meeting when a colleague takes credit for the work you have done. What do you do?

1 Quickly and publicly confront the colleague over the ownership of your work.

2 After the meeting, take the colleague aside and tell him/her that you would appreciate it in the future if he/she credits you when speaking about your work.

 This is one popular known test that helps office workers know their state of emotion.

 

 

Nowadays, work qualification demands are high .It is not only having good qualification that matters, strong emotional intelligence is also required.

There ways to improve your Emotional Intelligence.

 

1-Take time out to observe your emotional acts over a fortnight. Write down any important acts which you committed or neglected.

 

2-Review them later and check if your actions helped or damaged your prospects and if it would have been better if you did it another way.

 

3-Critising others and being always observant of other people mistakes or faults should be stopped. Concentrate on the good side of other people.

 

4-React to Mistakes when you have calmed down. Never talk when in an angry mood, wait until you cool off.

 

5-Admit the fact that you are helpless without your team. Try as much as possible to understand their emotional needs.

 

6-Cultivate positive thoughts about yourselves and also about other people around you.

 

7-Learn to accommodate people mistakes and try to rectify their mistakes and not concentrate on finding faults only.

 

 

 

Knowing who you are and what you can do is very paramount. Self awareness and restraint which helps you have knowledge of your mood swings and putting those bad moods under control is necessary. Self initiation and interpersonal skills is needed to give you a sense of responsibility and also confidence.

 

In 1995 Daniel Goleman wrote a book on Emotional Intelligence. He defined Emotional Intelligence as the master aptitude, a capacity that profoundly affects all other abilities, either facilitating or interfering with them.

 

The need to keep one’s Emotion in check is vital. If success must be attained then it must first of all start in the mind. The way you think affects your emotion and your emotion directly or indirectly determines your actions.