High EQ is a Superpower: Three Habits Signify You’ve Got It

“Emotional intelligence (“EQ”) inspires collaboration, facilitates trust in relationships, and allows a person to help and empower others. Emotionally intelligent tendencies often promote personal growth and happiness for others.” Understanding what EQ looks like in the workplace may help a person continue to cultivate these qualities.

I recently read an article entitled “High EQ is a Superpower: Three Habits Signify You’ve Got It” published by Psychology Today. The article resonated with me because I believe that emotionally intelligent leaders bring out the best in everyone around them. They engender trust amongst employees that they are in a safe environment where they can share their thoughts and be themselves. This is the recipe for creating ‘followership’. To enhance one’s EQ, you must first become aware of how your behaviors impact others and then focus on ways to create a supportive environment where others are not afraid to be authentic. Leaders with high EQ are often role models for their employees and the ones who others are drawn to.

The article covers three qualities of someone with a high EQ:

“First, a person who is emotionally attuned to others is usually emotionally intelligent. Sensing the feeling states of others allows a person to act conscientiously and respond to the emotional needs of friends, colleagues, and loved ones.”

“Second, an individual who is self-aware is often emotionally intelligent. The ability to look at oneself routinely leads to insight. This introspective ability assists a person in realizing a shortcoming in a relationship…and enables them to repair a misstep they may have made.”

“Third, a person who is in touch with their uncomfortable emotions can identify, verbalize, and discuss the nuances of specific emotional states. Differentiating between feeling states such as disappointment, hurt, envy, anger, frustration, shame, sadness, fear, and confusion can help a person unpack and understand intense and overwhelming emotions. This understanding helps a person act on difficult emotions constructively instead of destructively.”

You can read the original article here.