Emotional intelligence is the set of emotional and social skills, which together combined to establish how good you are at understanding and expressing yourself, how you go about developing and maintaining social relationships, how you cope with day to day challenges, how these affects you over a long period of time, and how you go about using emotional information your own and those of other people in effective and meaningful ways. It's the way that you blend your thinking with your feelings in order to make good innovative decisions and build authentic relationships. Whilst there are a number of other factors that predict performance, development, potential and success in life. Emotional intelligence has been proved to be a key indicator in these areas. It's not a static factor is it can be developed and improved in targeted areas, and it can change over time. Emotional intelligence has actually been estimated to account for between 27 to 45% of job success.

Emotional intelligence is completely different to cognitive intelligence, IQ, emotional intelligence and cognitive intelligence are not highly correlated. This means that they're not related together, and means that there's nothing to suggest that if you have high IQ, then you're going to be more emotionally intelligent. Or if you have low IQ, it doesn't mean to say that you won't have a good level of emotional intelligence. As I've said, emotional intelligence is not a static factor. To the contrary, you can actually work to improve And change your emotional intelligence over time, as you can develop it in key targeted areas. Emotional intelligence is not linked to your aptitude, your ability to learn a new language or play an instrument, your ability to learn a new skill, nor is it linked to performance.

How well you do in examinations that measure proficiency. Emotional Intelligence does not measure vocation, so it won't help you to choose a career. And it won't help you to choose whether to enter or prepare for a particular occupation. Emotional Intelligence isn't a direct measure of personality, being different from behaviors and character traits, such as loyalty, integrity, extraversion, neuroticism, and a number of other personality traits that are often measured. Finally, whilst emotional intelligence looks to help people work with their emotions, it doesn't give any assessments of anxiety, depression or any other aspect of mental health.