Emotional Intelligence

After taking the EQ test, I scored a 123. According to the site, it said my emotional intelligence is good, and I have little trouble understanding and dealing with their own emotions and those of others. I agree with these findings because I generally able to overcome difficulties in my life and control my mood most of the time. In addition, I am able to motivate myself without help of others. According to the article “Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum,” by Frank Bellizzi, it states that the ability to the manage ones interactions and emotions with others is a key to effective leadership.


After listening to a speech by Henry Weisinger, about emotional intelligence he inspired to me to take action in learning in emotions and how they affect your life. He provided us 10 tips to improve our emotional intelligence, which are:
1. Learn to listen to how you talk to others
2. Use your thoughts as instructional self statements
3. Be aware of your intentions
4. Observer your behavior
5. Relax
6. Generate humor
7. Become a good problem solver
8. Practice the power of positive criticism
9. Listen and use the message of emotions
10. Make tasks underwhelming.

I decided that I need to work on my EQ improvements and the top two I think are most important are to be learn to listen how you talk to others and to generate humor. The first, learn to listen to how you talk to others is important because sometimes you could be saying something you don’t want to say or mean it different way, especially thought nonverbal communication. People can pick up on certain things, you don’t even notice about yourself so its very important to be aware of what your doing. The second, to generate humor I feel is very difficult because people think different things are funny. In addition, humor can be two sided, like for example sarcasm is meant to be funny but sometimes people don’t think it is. However, if used correctly humor could be the difference of you getting a job on an interview compared to someone else. As an education major, I need to know how to manage my emotional intelligence in the benefit for my students. By taking these tips into consideration, I can create a better learning environment for my students in the long run.