Emotional Intelligence

This week’s blog article is about ‘emotional intelligence’ (EQ).

Emotional intelligence is the understanding of feelings; personal attributes that enable people to succeed in life, including self-awareness, empathy, self-confidence, and self-control. People with high level of EQ would most probably have good relations with their friends and colleagues because they understand the needs of a person or a co-worker.

Nowadays, companies are hiring people who are not only skilled, but also has a high level of EQ. This is because some companies are wasting time and money to replace managers or employees that are unable to connect to employees emotionally.

With people with high level of EQ in the team, there would be more understanding and teamwork among the workers. The article from http://www.boston.com/bostonworks/news/articles/2006/09/10/, also included some EQ tips. For example, ‘never fib’ or lie. In some cases, people fib to impress another. However, according to the article, this is one of the things to follow. In my opinion, there are some cases that making a white lie is acceptable.

For example, you are applying for a job that gives you the choice of three departments and in your resume you have indicated that you want to be in the human resource department. During the interview, the interviewer asks you ‘how serious are you about the other two choices?’ You cannot possibly say that ‘not serious at all’, I think you would probably be turned down.

What the article meant that do lie about something that you do not know. For instance, one was to be asked whether he knows about bookkeeping, and lie a yes, he has put himself in a very temperamental situation. If he were to be employed and assigned some bookkeeping work, he would most probably be in deep trouble.

All in all, I would like to say that being yourself is the best way. Although EQ is a must have characteristic of a potential employee in certain companies, it would be no good if you were to fake about yourself.