Emotional Intelligence – Measured

What is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence spans both emotions and intelligence. Emotions and feelings interact with, and are inextricably entwined in, beliefs and values, as Attitude. Beliefs and values are the gate keepers of the mind. Information, perceptions are allowed to enter the mind by beliefs and values to galvanise the feelings, and emotions that motivate specific behaviours.

Emotional intelligence is a leadership ability to perceive, understand, assume, and reflectively employ a range of different:

• motivating feelings and emotions, from a scope of attitudes, without self-stress to that person.
• beliefs and values, from a scope of attitudes, that admit understanding of a broad range, and variety of information without self-stress

The Scope of Attitudes employed by the mind without Self-Stress measures Emotional Intelligence.

A person with high emotional intelligence assumes the attitude of the other person. By assuming the other person’s attitude, that person’s beliefs and values open wide the gates to that person’s mind, freely admitting the leader’s information and objectives into that person’s own mind who, if then persuaded, is constantly motivated to achieve the leader’s objectives by their own self-perpetuating motivations, not the leader’s.

High emotional intelligence includes good communication skills; a broad minded approach to people, tasks, situations; the ability to manage change; a personal sense of balance, personal security, and self-worth; actively listens to criticism without pre-judgement; clarifies situations; self-evaluates own actions; is goal directed; has positive expectations ; processes multiple experiences, events; cooperates with others; makes decisions based on principles.

The lower the level of emotional intelligence, the more limited the scope of attitudes a person can assume without self-stress. Low emotional intelligence is easily stressed by adopting another attitude; responds only to its own expectations, and requirements; has difficulties in handling, sorting out many things at the same time; over-uses the power of position, relationships, precedent; has one type of management style, and/or one type of management skill e.g. planning, organising, problem finding; does not share responsibility for the process, or its outcome.

Emotional Intelligence,determined by the psychologically measured, validated, described Scope of Attitudes of feelings, emotions, beliefs and values, assumed and employed by the mind without Self-Stress, is an objective, simple, numerical measure and ranking.