Emotional Intelligence for presentation.ppt

emotional intelligence

1. EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE

2. What Is Emotional Intelligence?
•The ability to identify, use,
understand, and manage
moods, feelings, and
attitudes.
•Perceiving and managing
emotions.
•Perceiving = accurately
monitoring and labeling
•Managing = use them to
guide you when appropriate
•Assessing your emotional
intelligence.

3. Your Turn
Do you know anybody (including yourself)
who is “book smart”but not very good with
people? What kinds of challenges do these
people face? How might improving
emotional awareness help?

4. Assessing Your Emotional
Intelligence

5. Your Turn
After completing the EI questionnaire,
reflect on the results. Are there any areas
that you would like to work on? If so, why
do you identify these as areas for
improvement? Give specifics. What could
you do to improve in these areas?

6. Categorizing the Skills of EI:
The Bar-On Model of EI
•Intrapersonal skills
•How well you know and
like yourself
•Emotional self-awareness,
assertiveness,
independence, self-regard,
self-actualization
•Interpersonal skills
•Forging relationships and
getting along with other
people
•Empathy, social
responsibility,

7. Categorizing the Skills of EI
(continued)
•Bar-On Model of Emotional Intelligence (continued)
•Adaptability
•Ability to adjust your thinking and behavior when faced with new
or unexpected situations
•Reality testing, flexibility, problem solving
•Stress management
•Stress tolerance, impulse control
•General mood and effective performance
•Bar-On emphasizes the importance of optimism and
happiness

8. How Emotions Affect Success
•Emotions are strongly tied to physical and
psychological well-being.
•EI and college success
•Emotionally intelligent students get higher grades
•Students who can’t manage emotions struggle
academically
•Students who delay gratification tend to do better
overall
•EI skills can be enhanced in a first-year seminar

9. How to Improve Your Emotional
Intelligence
•Developing EI is important toward getting the full
benefit of college.
•Strategies to improve EI
•Identify your strengths and weaknesses
•Set realistic goals
•Formulate a plan
•Check your progress on a regular basis

10. Handling Stress
•Identify specific EI competencies that you can
define, describe, and set measurable goals for
change.
•Stress management is one
•Identify stressors
•Identify what reduces stress for you while also keeping
you on target