Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Five Key Skills for Raising Your EQ. What is emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Emotional intelligence impacts many different aspects of your daily life, such as the way you behave and the way you interact with others. If you have high emotional intelligence you are able to recognize your own emotional state and the emotional states of others, and engage with people in a way that draws them to you. Al, what are soft skills and why all the fuss about them? Q: "Al, what are soft skills and why all the fuss about them?
" A: Soft skills are intrapersonal and interpersonal abilities that help a person to gain a competitive advantage in social and professional settings. These skills include competencies in areas such as Emotional Intelligence, communication, leadership ability, etiquette, conflict resolution, decision making, self-motivation, self-discipline, persuasion, etc.... THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN MOVED. Please click here to continue reading. Copyright 2005 Al Duncan Enterprises. MBAs Acting Out.