What is Emotional Intelligence
Foundation of Self & Other
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Emotional Self-Awareness - Your ability to recognize your feelings, differentiate between them, know why you're feeling these feelings, and recognize the impact these feelings have on others around you.
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Self-Regard - Your ability to respect and accept yourself - essentially liking the way you are. Its knowing your strengths and weaknesses and liking yourself...flaws and all!
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Empathy - Your ability to be aware of, understand, and appreciate the feelings and thoughts of others. Empathy is dialing in and (being sensitive) to what, how and why people feel and the way to do.
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Self-Actualization - Your ability to realize your own capabilities. Striving to actualize your potential involves developing enjoyable and meaningful activities and can mean a lifelong effort and an enthusiastic commitment to long-term goals.
Navigating Challenges
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Problem Solving - Your ability to find solutions to problems in situations involving emotions, and to understand how emotions impact decision-making. This skill is also linked to a desire to do one's best and to confront problems, rather than avoid them.
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Independence - Your ability to be self-directed and self-controlled in your thinking and actions and to be free of emotional dependency. Independent people are able to function autonomously - they avoid clinging to others in order to satisfy their emotional needs.
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Assertiveness - This skill is seen in people who are not over-controlled or shy - they can express their feelings and beliefs (often directly), and they do so without being aggressive or abusive.
Building Resilience
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Optimism - Your ability to look at the brighter side of life and to maintain a positive attitude even in the face of adversity. It involves remaining hopeful and resilient, despite occasional setbacks.
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Reality Testing - This is the skill used to access the correspondence between what's experienced and what objectively exists. It is your capacity to see things objectively, the way they are, rather than the way we wish or fear them to be.
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Stress Tolerance - Your ability to withstand adverse events and stressful situations without developing physical or emotional symptoms, by actively and positively coping with stress. This skill includes having a repertoire of suitable responses to stressful situations.
Emotional Regulation
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Optimism - Your ability to look at the brighter side of life and to maintain a positive attitude even in the face of adversity. It involves remaining hopeful and resilient, despite occasional setbacks.
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Reality Testing - This is the skill used to access the correspondence between what's experienced and what objectively exists. It is your capacity to see things objectively, the way they are, rather than the way we wish or fear them to be.
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Stress Tolerance - Your ability to withstand adverse events and stressful situations without developing physical or emotional symptoms, by actively and positively coping with stress. This skill includes having a repertoire of suitable responses to stressful situations.
Growth & Connection
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Social Responsibility - The skill that comprises your desire and ability to willingly contribute to society, your social group and generally to the welfare of others. Socially responsible people do things for the team, the division, the organization, or for society at large that do not benefit them directly.
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Interpersonal Relationships - A skill that offers the ability to establish and maintain mutually satisfying relationships that are characterized by the ability to both "give" and "take" in relationships, and where trust and compassion are openly expressed in words or by behaviour.