Emotional intelligence is the quality of analyzing and understanding our own feelings and those of others, for motivating our selves, and for managing emotions well in us and in our relationships. Emotional intelligence means knowing the inner world of one’s self and the adeptness.

The emotional maturity of a person contributes approx 70% in his success along with his IQ and bookish knowledge. Many people around us are book smart but not emotionally smart and thus are deprived of many things even with high quality skills.

The emotional intelligent people have self-awareness i.e. they know one’s feelings and using it to guide their decision making activities. Such people handle their emotions so that they facilitate rather than interfere with the task at hand.

Emotional intelligence helps in motivation thus using our deepest preferences to move and guide us towards our goals, to help us take initiative and strive to improve and to preserve in the face of setbacks and frustrations. It also contribute to know the feelings of others and to see things from other’s perspective. This empathy is quite different from sympathy as here we are concerned to understand the perspective of a person in a particular issue rather than feeling pity for the person. Be accurate in understanding social situations and networks, some times we wrongly judge a situation by applying the techniques rather than principles. These social skills means to handle human emotions successfully and it helps in solving disputes and creating a good team work and interaction.

People who are emotionally weak have the opposite traits. They are not capable of adapting their styles to changes in the organizational culture. They are blind to their weaknesses, which they need to change. Then they also become harsh in criticisms, insensitive and demanding. As a result they alienate those with whom they work and live.