Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence Assessment and Improvement Plan To be an effective leader, one must possess the ability to create and maintain healthy relationships within the work environment. The capability of maintainingthese healthy relationships is best determined by measuring our Emotional Intelligence (EI). Emotional Intelligence is defined as our ability to recognize, control, and communicate our own emotions, as well as identifying the emotions of others. Well developed EI skills are a better predictor of success in the workplace (as well as outside the workplace) than that of traditional measurements of intelligence, or IQ. Purpose of Assignment During the March 14th residency, I had completed a handout that was intended to provide insight into my own skill levels in relation to EI. To measure EI, several sample tasks were identified in the handout of which I was to rate myself by how well I felt I ranked in ability regarding that particular task. These tasks fell into the five different factors involved in emotional intelligence '' Self-Awareness, Managing Emotions, Self-Motivation, Relating Well, and Emotional Monitoring. This memo is intended to reflect on my strong and weak points in relation to EI as well as propose an improvement plan in which to implement enhancing my own emotional intelligence. Factor #1: Self-Awareness Self-awareness is the ability to recognize one’s emotions and their effects. In my opinion, this is the most important factor involved in emotional intelligence. I believe this is true because how we cope with certain situations in life, whether they are positive or negative, is often the same way that we cope with a particular business situation. Although I placed high in the category of self-awareness on the assessment handout, I know that this is not an accurate measurement. For instance, as a child I perceived myself as always being less than average and not worthy of praise from others as far as certain tasks and abilities were...