very short presentation about emotional intelligence and its applications

1. Emotional intelligence
RNDr. Miroslava Korenova PhD
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2. Emotional Intelligence
Let us start with the quote of Aristotle:
Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person,
to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way -
this is not easy
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3. Emotional Intelligence
 Do you know what emotions are?
 How they can be managed?
 Can you name some of emotional states? Or display emotional expressions?
 Do you sometimes feel tired? Or your stomach hurts...or your head aches?
 Can you link this emotions to specific feelings?
 And what about intelligence? Can you try to define the word intelligence?
 Who is intelligent, who is not.....
 Try to depict from the individual meaning of words – what emotional intelligence is
focused on? How may behave people who are emotionally intelligent?
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4. Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI) is:
An ability to recognize and to understand emotions in yourself,
but also emotions of others
The capability to discern between different feelings, and label
them appropriately
An ability to use emotional information for proper thinking and
behavioural response
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5. Emotional Intelligence
 The term Emotional Intelligence (EI) first appeared in paper by Michael
Beldoch in 1964
 However the EI become popularized in 1995, when Daniel
Coleman published his book with EI as the main topic - „Emotional
Intelligence“
 EI for a long time served as the missing link between IQ and social
success, precisely why people with an average IQ outperforme those
with the highest IQ
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6. Emotional Intelligence
 EI affects how we manage behaviour, how we interact with people, how
we make personal decisions or how we perform social contacts
 Some people are more naturally emotionally intelligent than others
 High emotional intelligence can be developed by experience and practice,
even in people that are not born with it
 High (higher) emotional intelligence is strong predictor of professional
and social success
 Rather than being a single characteristic, emotional intelligence is a
complex of competencies that may be organized into a major clusters
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7. Emotional intelligence
Major clusters
 1. Self Awareness
 2. Adaptability
 3. Empathy
 4. Self Confidence
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8. Emotional Intelligence
Self awareness
If you are self aware – you are able to
identify, acknowledge and accept all
your feelings – along with the ability
to evaluate them
Self awareness helps you to better
know your internal feelings,
perceptions and preferences
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9. Emotional Intelligence
Self confidence
Is your own belief in your capability to
accomplish individual tasks
Includes the affirming that you are the best
person to do the job you doing –
example: singing, drawing, dancing, playing
piano ...
Helps you to make decisions despite
uncertainities and pressure
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10. Emotional Intelligence
Adaptability
Is capability to perform effectively in:
- different working environments
- changing situations
- with various individuals
People with high adaptability are flexible
and are able to adapt their plans, visions or
behaviour in that way which best fits into
changed situation
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11. Emotional Intelligence
Empathy
Empathy is about understanding of other
people feelings and emotions
It is the ability to read unwritten, to hear
unspoken - the ability to accurately
understand partially expressed thoughts and
feelings
People with high empathy can read
people°s moods and nonverbal signals, they
listen well and can understand different
perspectives of situation
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12. Emotional Intelligence
Significance
 High emotional intelligence brings:
 Increased well-being
 Increased leadership ability
 Increased team performance
 Improved decision making
 Decreases occupational stress
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 Depict individual JellyBeans
for your actual feeling,
describe an emotional state
that is interconnected with
that feeling
Example:
Joy – feeling
Related emotional state – muscle
tremble, purposeless movements,
clapping hands, jumping,
dancing, smile, upper lip rised,
etc..
http://emotionresearcher.com/understanding-multimodal-emotional-
expressions-recent-advances-in-basic-emotion-theory/
Emotional Intelligence

14. References
 Goleman, Daniel. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
 http://www.talentsmart.com/about/emotional-intelligence.php
 https://www.slideshare.net/taylor_keele/what-is-emotional-intelligence-ppt
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