The 10 benefits of emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (IE), a concept that popularized Daniel Goleman , is the ability to identify, understand and regulate one's own emotions and those of others.
There are many researches that have shown their benefits, and this has meant that for just over two decades it has been applied in the work environment as well as in the educational or clinical setting.
Benefits of Emotional Intelligence
But what are these benefits? Why is emotional intelligence important to people? In today's article we explain it to you. It will depend on you to put these tips and suggestions into practice, and benefit from a better quality of life.
Let us begin.
1. Improving self-awareness and decision-making
The self-knowledge it has a positive effect on self-esteem and on self-confidence in different everyday situations. As well allows people to evaluate their value system and beliefs , helps detect the strengths and weaknesses to improve and is necessary to make better decisions in life.
One aspect that is part of emotional intelligence is self-knowledge. Therefore, improving emotional intelligence is improving self-knowledge.
2. Improving work performance
Emotional intelligence applied to work is extremely useful in different aspects. For example, improves employee productivity, improves occupational health, improves customer service , etc.
If you want to know more about the benefits of emotional intelligence at work, you can read our article: "The benefits of emotional intelligence at work"
3. Protect and avoid stress
The correct emotional management is so important to protect stress as not to provoke it. Imagine a work situation in which the lack of empathy and poor regulation of one's emotions provokes ongoing discussions with your boss or a co-worker. In the long run these discussions can generate a bad work environment, and, as a consequence, a stressful environment.
Now imagine that you are the boss, and that emotional mismanagement makes you a little tolerant person. It is clear that your subordinates are going to suffer because of your emotional lack of control, which can become a stressor for the workers you lead. Because it is important to enjoy an environment with emotional intelligence, to protect ourselves from the wear and tear of everyday work .
4. Improves interpersonal relationships
Returning to the previous point, the example shows that emotional intelligence is crucial to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Knowing and understanding your own emotions and that of others helps you to better deal with conflicts , something that can be inevitable when we live with other people.
Also, remember that relationships are often a constant negotiation, and maintain emotional balance in situations that can easily get out of hand often avoid much pain and misunderstanding.
5. Encourages personal development
Emotional intelligence and personal development go hand in hand. In fact, coaches, that is, experts in personal development, they bring emotional intelligence tools to the coachees , because the personal development of an individual can not be understood without the correct self-knowledge and the management of one's own emotions.
6. Provides capacity for influence and leadership
Emotional intelligence it is an essential competition of the leaders . The leader's own emotional self-control or knowing how to understand others is a good demonstration of leadership skills.
In fact, many charismatic leaders, those with a high emotional intelligence, such as the transformational leader, have proven to be the most efficient leaders in many investigations, because they motivate and increase the productivity and efficiency of the group.
7. It promotes psychological well-being
In recent years the interest in emotional intelligence is growing thanks to the benefits it brings for psychological well-being . Many pathologies of the present have to do with the correct emotional management, and for that reason, it is applied as a therapeutic method.
However, not only is it used with adults, but in many schools it is educated with emotional intelligence, as schools are increasingly aware of the importance that EI has for the emotional health of students.
8. Reduce anxiety and help overcome depression
Many people suffer from anxiety due to a negative evaluation of reality or from an incorrect control of emotions, and emotional intelligence can help prevent anxious symptoms.
Various investigations have shown that high scores of the questionnaire Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS), developed by Salovey in 1995, which includes three dimensions, (1) attention to feelings, (2) emotional clarity Y (3) emotional repair, they are associated with higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of anxiety .
9. Increase motivation and help achieve goals
Several studies have shown that emotional intelligence It is extremely important when it comes to achieving our goals, and, in fact, the coaches use it to motivate their clients .
Emotional intelligence protects us in difficult situations, because self-knowledge can keep us afloat even when we want to give up or throw in the towel. For example, if we detect and know that feelings of frustration are part of life, we may move forward even if everything has not gone as we wanted.
10. Help to sleep better
The improvement of well-being and emotional balance is positive in order to be able to sleep. It is common for bad management of emotions to cause anxiety and create problems for us every day. All this is negative for our psychic and physical health, and influences our sleep .
Managing our emotions in the right way, accepting our negative emotions, understanding the emotions of others and regulating our behavior, is key to having a peaceful sleep and a life without great ups and downs.
Emotional Intelligence Workshop (Mensalus Institute, Barcelona)
If you want to benefit from the practice of emotional intelligence, Mensalus Institute of Barcelona offers you the opportunity to integrate this practice into your personal and professional life with the "Emotional Intelligence Workshop" 100% experiential. This course, which offers its 14th edition, is ideal if you want to improve your general well-being and aim at know and deepen emotional intelligence in a practical and experiential way.
The workshop lasts 12 weeks, in which you will learn to understand, experience and manage your own emotional daily load and improve your quality of life. In the different sessions you can dive into different techniques and tools that will help you connect with yourself, regulate your emotions, reduce stress and achieve emotional balance what you need to enjoy better psychological health.
Likewise, and independently of this workshop, Instituto Mensalus offers the possibility of attending an emotional intelligence seminar on March 31, 2017 (with a price of 18 euros). This session will last two hours, in which you can introduce yourself to the basic elements of emotional intelligence training in a practical way.
If you want to know more about this workshop, which has its beginning on April 21 and 25, 2017 (group of morning and afternoon respectively), you only have to click on this link.
