What is Emotional Intelligence? How it improves interpersonal relations?

EI or Emotional Intelligence is based on these skills.

1. Self-awareness – the ability to know one's emotions, strengths, weaknesses, drives, values and goals and recognize their impact on others while using gut feelings to guide decisions.
2. Self-regulation – involves controlling or redirecting one's disruptive emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances.
3. Social skill – managing relationships to move people in the desired direction
4. Empathy – considering other people's feelings especially when making decision
5. Motivation – being driven to achieve for the sake of achievement.                                                      Once any individual master these EI skills can be a successful leader.                                                   EI skills can increase Interpersoanl relationship exponentialy.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.[1] Emotional intelligence also reflects abilities to join intelligence, empathy and emotions to enhance thought and understanding of interpersonal dynamics.[31] However, substantial disagreement exists regarding the definition of EI, with respect to both terminology and operationalizations. Currently, there are three main models of EI:

1. Ability model
2. Mixed model (usually subsumed under trait EI)[32][33]
3. Trait model

Different models of EI have led to the development of various instruments for the assessment of the construct. While some of these measures may overlap, most researchers agree that they tap different constructs.

Specific ability models address the ways in which emotions facilitate thought and understanding. For example, emotions may interact with thinking and allow people to be better decision makers (Lyubomirsky et al. 2005).[31] A person who is more responsive emotionally to crucial issues will attend to the more crucial aspects of his or her life.[31] Aspects of emotional facilitation factor is to also know how to include or exclude emotions from thought depending on context and situation.[31] This is also related to emotional reasoning and understanding in response to the people, environment and circumstances one encounters in his or her day-to-day life.[31]