Emotional Intelligence What Is It? What Does It Mean?

Emotional IntelligenceNameCourseTutor’s NameDateEmotional IntelligenceEmotional intelligence is an ability to be aware of emotions in self and others. Emotional intelligence helps an individual understand their emotional dispositions and how this disposition affects the decisions and actions they take. Emotional intelligence helps an individual to understand the emotions of other peoples and how emotions impact on interpersonal relations and interactions with people CITATION Pet10 \l 7177 (Peter, 2010).Emotional intelligence is founded on a framework of four domains; they include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. Self-awareness and social awareness relate to recognition of emotions. Self-awareness relates to being aware of one’s emotional competencies, capacity to accurately assess one’s own emotions and confidence in personal ability to monitors their emotional disposition. Social awareness includes ability to understand the emotional disposition of other people and being aware of emotions relating to social organisation. Self-management relates to self-control, initiative, adaptability and trustworthiness. Competency in self-management helps in controlling impulsive feelings or behaviours, take initiative in moving in the right direction, adapt to changes in circumstances and follow through one’s commitments. Relationship management related to competence in