

If you’re emotionally intelligent, you’re self-aware, and self-aware people know what matters to them, so this question holds no fear for them. These days we are increasingly being challenged by people who want to know about our personal values. When someone asks you: “What are your values?” And you don’t have to make stuff up.

Here are five signs which, in my entirely personal view, say you’re emotionally intelligent. So how do you know when you’ve actually got emotional intelligence? What should you work on to improve your emotional intelligence? It’s clearly a good thing to have, right up there with authenticity and resilience and the ability to be strategic. You know what I mean: someone says something like, “We’ve all got to be really emotionally intelligent about this, right?” and everyone nods and goes right, yeah, we do…

Emotional Intelligence (or Emotional Quotient, AKA “E.Q.”) is becoming one of those management sound bites, where everyone knows the answer, but not so many know the meaning.
