Hi Deborah,
A good topic !!
Steve's Short Definition of Emotional Intelligence:
The mental ability we are born with which gives us our emotional sensitivity and our potential for learning emotional management skills that help us maximize our health, happiness and survival as a species.
To explain this more, I believe each baby is born with a certain, unique potential for emotional sensitivity, emotional memory, emotional processing and emotional learning ability. It is these four inborn components which I believe form the core of one's emotional intelligence. I also believe it is helpful to make a distinction a person's person's innate potential versus what actually happens to that potential over their lifetime.
Potential EI vs. Actual EI Skills (EI vs EQ)As written in my Short Defintion Section, I believe each child enters the world with a unique potential for these components of emotional intelligence:
1. Emotional sensitivity
2. Emotional memory
3. Emotional processing and problem solving ability
4. Emotional learning ability.
The way we are raised dramatically affects what happens to our potential in each of these areas. For example a baby might be born with a very high potential for music, he or she might be a potential Mozart, but if that child is never given the chance to develop their musical potential, they will never become a talented musician later in life, and the world will miss out on this person's special gift to humanity.
And a child being raised in an emotionally abusive home can be expected to use their emotional potential in unhealthy ways later in life
For more info check this sites:-
eqi.org/ - 29k
www.eiconsortium.org/ - 43k
This is really good and has anyone here has information specifically pertaining to as How HR can use this EI to organization and develop the same?
Cheerio
Rajat