What Is Emotional Quotient (EQ)?

Emotional Intelligence means using emotions and thinking together – it’s about balance. In layman’s words, it means being smarter with feelings. Emotional Quotient (EQ) means knowing and managing your own emotions and recognizes and manages other people’s emotions and motivates yourself too. It helps to manage relationships so that a person can achieve personal and professional goals through the use of other people.

EQ mainly represents personal and social competence.

Personal Competence: It means knowing your emotions means Self-awareness about how you feel. It helps to access your emotional state. It has three aspects which includes

• Self-Assessment-means awareness about your positive and negatives, strengths and weaknesses.
• Self Confidence- to be positive and secure and assured whatever situation you are.
• Self-Management- to understand and control your emotions so that they don’t control you i.e. self-control which means maintaining positivism in the face of the problematic. The people who excel in it can bounce back far more quickly from life’s setbacks and disappointments.

Social Competence: It means how well you manage your relationship with others, including their emotions. It has two concepts.

• Social Awareness-means understanding the emotions of those people around you and empathizes with others and aware about what is affecting them.
• Social Management- by using the awareness of owns emotions and others to build a healthy relationship. It’s a way to communicate, persuade and lead others, whilst being direct and lowest without alienating People who excel in these skills do well at anything that relies on interacting smoothly with others.

The Four Fundamental Aspects of Emotional Intelligence are:-

• Recognizing emotions
• Understanding emotions
• Regulating emotions
• Using emotions

Emotional Quotient (EQ) is more important than Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It is more important for personal and professional success. The research found that IQ had little relation to success at work and in the rest of their lives. Once you are established in some particular work or job/ life, success is more likely to depend on your ability to persist in the face of difficulty and to get along well with others. It can be remedied to a great extent.  It represents a habit and response that can be improved with the right effort.