Every decision we make, whether it is personal or professional has an emotional component. We ‘feel’ choice A is better than choice B; therefore many times we make our choices based upon what our emotions or ‘gut feelings’ are telling us. We need to have the self-awareness of our own emotions and their origins to understand ourselves better; our motivations, fears, limitations and strengths. It’s also extremely important for us to be in touch with our emotions when working in teams. But just as important is our ability to work with empathy. To imagine a problem or situation from another perspective. Being attuned to other people’s emotions is even more significant today where teams are cross cultural and businesses are global; thus increasing the complexities of interactions and how emotions are expressed. Emotional intelligence is quite simply the ability to recognize and understand emotions and the ability to take conscious, appropriate action, develop and maintain good social relationships, and think clearly to solve problems under pressure.At POTENTIALS we have developed an EI strategy to develop understanding and the skill set to harness and work with our emotions. We help individuals, students, professionals and entire organisations realize their full potential and improve their relationships with others. We work to develop emotional competencies including; self-awareness (the ability to recognize our strengths and weaknesses), assertiveness (the ability to say in a none defensive or aggressive way what we need to say and when we need to say it!), social responsibility (the ability to give back, to be helpful), impulse control (the ability to resist or delay an impulse or drive to react), and flexibility (the ability to transition your emotions from one state to another in any given situation). The more we understand our emotions the better our personal and professional lives will be.

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