Emotional Intelligence involves the perception, understanding and regulation of emotions. It is the ability of a person to identify their emotions as a person and those of other people, appreciating and drawing a mark between various emotional feelings and marking them suitably, applying the information out of that understanding to understand differences in thought and behavior, and managing and making adjustments to emotions in order to fit into different environments or else to achieve a certain goal. In order to manage people successfully, people who by default have distinct emotional differences and diverse reactions to almost every stimuli, it is therefore vital to have a vast knowledge in Emotional Intelligence (Denhardt et. al., 2012).
Emotional Intelligence helps in understanding others with more self-awareness. Once one understands themselves and is able to control, manage reactions, moods, responses, they can well manage and lead other people. Courtesy of Emotional Intelligence we can discern the emotions and feelings of other people empathetically and get to understand why they react differently to different situations thus easy to encourage and motivate them. With Emotional Intelligence a leader can relate well socially with others, lead them well, be good in solving conflicts, and promote team work promoting motivation among the team members. A good understanding of Emotional Intelligence means good leadership, success, motivated teams and individuals. Emotional diversity if well managed translates to workplace ideas and skills diversity transforming to better output and profits (Denhardt et. al., 2012).
Emotional Intelligence is build up of three main principle which include: perceiving, understanding, and regulating emotions. The three work hand in hand to complement each other for the success of Emotional Intelligence. None of them is less important of powerful than the other. For instance, to achieve good regulation, you must first perceive them and understand. The three principle or component belong together and none can work best in exclusion (Denhardt et. al., 2012).
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