Emotional intelligence

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The concept was theorized in 1990 by two American psychologists, Peter Salovey and John Mayer. The pair defined emotional intelligence as: "The ability to perceive emotion, to integrate to facilitate thinking, to understand emotions and to control them in order to promote personal growth". In his theory, psychologist Daniel Goleman outlines five components of emotional intelligence…

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Psychologist Daniel Goleman

Self-awareness

motivation

Empathy

sOCIAL SKILLS

Self-regulation

Self-awareness

It means knowing how to connect to one's emotions, recognise them, name them and understand them

Empathy

It allows us to practice active listening and to recognise the emotions of others, even through weak signals.

Motivation

This allows us to cultivate our enthusiasm and take on new challenges.

Social skills

It helps us to build trusting relationships, to dialogue and to communicate.

Self-regulation

It consists in looking for points of improvement. It will lead to a new project to be carried out, and therefore a new plan to be established.