Emotional Intelligence: Core Components
Emotional intelligence is awareness and monitoring of my emotions. Emotional intelligence includes the core components: empathy, communication, and self-awareness. Empathy is the ability for me to connect with my feelings and perspectives of others. What empathy means to me personally is genuinely understanding the other person’s perspective. Communication involves the way I speak, my tone of voice, the facial expressions I use, my eye contact, and my body language. It also involves my patterns of interacting with others and listening. What communication means to me personally is the sense of situational and contextual awareness. Self-awareness means being conscious of my own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, as well as my impact on others.
What self-awareness means to me personally is being introspective about myself. My primary communication style is assertive. I do not avoid difficult conversations. Instead, I approach such conversations with a willingness to demonstrate respect toward the other person. The assertive communication style allows for difficulties to be addressed and needs to be acknowledged. Blank, blank, and blank are three specific things that I can do to challenge myself to communicate better with people who might have different ideals, beliefs or backgrounds than I do.
What self-awareness means to me personally is being introspective about myself. My primary communication style is assertive. I do not avoid difficult conversations. Instead, I approach such conversations with a willingness to demonstrate respect toward the other person. The assertive communication style allows for difficulties to be addressed and needs to be acknowledged. Blank, blank, and blank are three specific things that I can do to challenge myself to communicate better with people who might have different ideals, beliefs or backgrounds than I do.