Emotional Intelligence
4 June 2010The psychologist Daniel Goldman disseminated throughout the world the term emotional intelligence, through the book that way, and its continuation, the practice of emotional intelligence.
Through its pages, Goldman introduces us to this theory, which seeks to explain why there are often very smart people who fail in their endeavors in life, or even committing major stupid, while others with a lower IQ Successful.
The emotional intelligence includes aspects such as self-awareness, motivation, perseverance, empathy …
It also explains ways and methods to promote and develop.
The first book, Emotional Intelligence, explains how the brain works and why sometimes people of high intelligence could commit a murder, for example, in a rapture of rage. It also tells us how many times the level of self-control and automotive and capacity to motivate others is the key determinants of performance can be achieved by a team.
Personally, I like the second part, the practice of emotional intelligence. As its title indicates more emphasis on issues applicable in daily life and at work.
In its citation, for example, a famous article by McClelland, for arguing how qualifications are not a good predictor of adequate job performance or success in life, and that the traits that define the workers most often based on qualities such as empathy, self-discipline and initiative.
In short, the term emotional intelligence refers, as defined by Goldman, “the ability to recognize our own feelings, the feelings of others, motivate and manage the relationships we maintain with others and with ourselves.”
Thereforex, it is not related to IQ, but is complementary. You can have one of them greatly, and the other to a lesser amount, the two has or not has any.
I personally like the ability to define a person can have in terms of 3 variables: attitude, aptitude and knowledge (experience).
Moreover, these factors are multiplicative, i.e.
Capacity = ability x attitude knowledge
So that the performance of an individual depends on three factors simultaneously, and if it fails on one of them loose in the total.
For example, if you have the attitude and skills, but knowledge is lacking at the moment of time will not have the ability, but willing to learn, so that over time will be a capable worker.
If you have knowledge and attitude, but lacks skills, your work will be more or less acceptable, based on that experience, but no employee will become a star (if I train a lot, play better tennis, but I will never be Raga Nodal , which by the way, and in this instance, has three features in high grade).
And if you have skills and knowledge, but the attitude is wrong, it will be a little worker employed by this lack of motivation.
