EQ stands for Emotional Quotient, otherwise known as Emotional Intelligence, and is a measure of a person’s adequacy in areas such as self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with other people. In business, EQ is vital to build strong working relationships and develop connections with other people.
Whether you’re a manager, staff member or job seeker, emotional intelligence is something you should always strive to develop if you want to have good personal and professional relationships.
So, to help you out, here are 10 emotional intelligence tips to get you through your day!
Tip 1:
Become Emotionally Literate. Label your feelings, rather than labelling people or situations. “I feel impatient.” vs. “This is ridiculous.” I feel hurt and bitter.” vs “You are an insensitive jerk.” “I feel afraid.” vs “You are driving like an idiot.”
Tip 2:
Distinguish between thoughts and feelings. Thoughts: I feel like… & I feel as if… & I feel that feeling… vs Feelings: I feel (feeling word).
Tip 3:
Take responsibility for your feelings. “I feel jealous.” vs “You are making me jealous.”
Tip 4:
Use your feelings to help make decisions. “How will I feel if I do this?” “How will I feel if I don’t?”
Tip 5:
Show respect for other people’s feelings. Ask: “How will you feel if I do this?” “How will you feel if I don’t?”
Tip 6:
Feel energised, not angry. Use what others call “anger” to help feel energised to take productive action.
Tip 7:
Validate other people’s feelings. Show empathy, understanding, and acceptance of other people’s feelings.
Tip 8:
Practice getting a positive value from emotions. Ask yourself: “How do I feel?” and “What would help me feel better?” Ask others “How do you feel?” and “What would help you feel better?”
Tip 9:
Don’t advise, command, control, criticise, judge or lecture others. Instead, try to listen with empathy and non-judgment.
Tip 10:
Avoid people who put you down. While this is not always possible, at least try to spend less time with them, or try not to let them have psychological power over you.
oh I like Label your feelings rather than the situation…. Will definitely read up more about this EI/EQ topic
Thanks
Yes it was very interesting and helpful and makes me understand about my reactions.
I found the blog to be very helpful.
I will endeavour to use the tips to help me communicate better with others.
I have always had trouble keeping emotions in check, hopefully this will help me cope better.
It was very useful information on how to better explain emotions. Most of it was common sense
It is helpful to identify our emotional intelligence. I would love to read more. It was interesting and helpful to me. Thanx.
Hello I took a Look at the blog/story and found it very interested. Changing the focus from putting someone down to the way your feeling is a good idea to make a positive change. At the end the “I feel (feeling word) seems a bit odd me to though .
Emotion quotient I never heard of it self awareness relationship.
Use your feeling to help make decisions.
Feeling energised,not angry use what other call.
I found the ‘Top 10 emotional intelligence tips’ blog to be very effective.
I’ve learnt you can still be honest about what you want to say but be mindful of the words you are using.
This is something I’d want to read more about at a later date
These are some nice tips on how to interact with other people. Even though I jumped around the article what I read was very helpful.
Hi Maria, great post! It helped me better understand the concepts of emotional intelligence and how to apply those in my life. One thing that might be worth doing however is putting in more detail. Some of the points required further discussion which, while valuable, may not be possible for some.
Liam
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There are lots of tips which I haven’t heard or known before.
“Top 10 Emotional Intelligence Tips”~
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Yes it was most useful,& yes l agree with most blog tips.
(It’s common sense)
Great information.
Thankyou!!
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If anything it makes my thinking and feeling systems more complicated.
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This is a list of 10 bullet point tips to guide you into more of an understanding of your emotional awareness.
To question your thoughts on the subject, to help teach a constructive conclusion which is beneficial & mutual to both parties.
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with respect and understanding so as to communicate on a higher
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Though most of these tips are common sense, it teaches people a different way to express their feelings in a more positive/calming way. It’s just changing the way you say things and includes feelings/emotions into every situation. It could help dealing with sensitive people, someone whose having a difficult time, in meetings where people are asking for others’ opinions, etc.
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I found this blog helpful, I now know about Emotional Intelligence
With tip 4. I felt it this tip has helped me understand how my feelings can control what I do and don’t do in everyday life if I allow them to control my actions and responses.
I agree with the blog, I think emotional development is extremely important.
I think a lot of problems in the world would be resolved if people were more selfaware and have empathy and think about other people’s feelings.
I was already applying it, but the information supplied, showed me that there was more to respecting other & reminds me of where I’m at with my own respect.
It was very helpful because it helped me word sentances better to show what i mean and or feeling
I love tip:9 it help me learn to listen and to just be there for someone
They are very helpful tips to get you through day to day living- turning negative into positive
It’s alway important to self evaluation and respect people’s preferences and needs
The blog was helpful. Tip 9 was the 1 that I liked the best. You can’t comment, criticize, judge or lecture others. You just have to be there to help people if they need it
Thanks for the article, Tip 9 was helpful as it provided guidance for developing active listening skills.
This blog resonated with me because I have learned how emotional intelligence can support me to communicate more effectively and to endorse the skills I already have.
Yes,I found the blog interesting and tip 10 stood out the most , as I’m currently dealing with this problem.
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These tips were very useful as they can give a very wide range of examples of how they can be used in many different situations. I will continue to use them in the future.
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This blog is very useful and emphasizing the main points of emotional intelligence. All tips are easy to read and simple to understand. I’ll be sure to take these tips when communicating with other people.
I am not good on computers and with English. I thought it was good to learn.
I thought the blog helped me a lot to be more aware of other people’s feelings and show respect..
This blog gives me helpful advice for my life. I agree with all of these top 10 emotional intelligence tips. I can find it useful in the future.
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sensitively with others. i feel if I follow the tips it would help me to build stronger working
relationships and develop connection with other people
I really liked the top 10 tips as it made me more aware on how I can be more emotionally intelligent .
I found the the top 10 emotional intelligence tips very helpful as it helped me build better relationships. I agreed with the ask for help tip because i don’t ask for help enough and i get overwhelmed.
this was easy to understand and very informative
I do agree with the tips from Bounce.
I am a believer in taking responsibility and ownership for our own actions and that I play a part in all my interactions. It feels better to be positive and willing to learn in every situation, rather than look for someone to blame or justify behaviours.
This blog gave me a better understanding of self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with others. I feel like if I follow the tips it would help me to build stronger working relationships and develop connections with other people.
This blog gave me a better understanding of self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with others. I feel like if I follow the tips it would help me to build stronger working relationships and develop connections with other people.
This blog gave me a better understanding of self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with others. I feel like if I follow the tips it would help me to build stronger working relationships and develop connections with other people.
This blog gave me a better understanding of self-awareness, empathy, and dealing sensitively with others. I feel like if I follow the tips it would help me to build stronger working relationships and develop connections with other people.
I enjoy reading these tips,How will you feel if I do this? How will you feel if I don’t? feel energized to take productive action. asking myself how I feel rather than I feel tired, rather than labeling people or situations.
I found the Blog quite helpful. It enabled me to learn and better understand a better form of communication strategies when I engage with people, especially during moments of frustration, disappointment and anger. Changing the negative to a positive approach for a better outcome.
Emotional Intelligence is an advantageous skills to be used and developed in all situations in one’s daily life.
Yes it was helpful and I learned that there are labels for our feelings and that there are tips to make us understand tip 10 better
I’m I found some of this tips where helpful other where not
I found that the blog was helpful. I also learned new trips and strategies that will assist me in the future when dealing with all kinds of people and situations.
I agreed with all the Top 10 Tips.
I agree with the top ten tips and how to connect with people in the workplace.
i found that that the blog was mainly common sence it would be good for some people
This blog was an excellent reminder to watch self talk, & to distinguish between thoughts & feelings, & label them instead. Tip 10 especially resonated with me
Basic and common knowledge in my eyes. Those who are somehow unaware of this sort of stuff may find this helpful.
I find this blog has reinforced with myself that I am very self-aware, empathetic and that i do try to deal with other people in a sensitive way.
I was okay to understand.
Do help me understand more and improve me by using respect languages and feeling & awareness others when in a situation of social, business & communities.
positive reminder to be more aware of my feelings. Use feelings to make better choices. it was easy to understand and read
Yes it was helpful but it’s a concept that I’m fully aware off but am still willing to learn and expand etc.
I found the blog to be a positive reminder to be more aware of my feelings. Use feelings to make better choices.
I value that some one has written about emotional intergeliee to help other people laid strong relations ship and connate with other people may use in emotional literate.
Yes, this is a great blog because for me it changes my mindset. Teaches me to think outside the square and turn a negative into a positive. Have a different outlook.
I found the top ten intelligence tips useful and helpful
Yes this blog has been a helpful read. My mindset has changed a bit because of it, how things are viewed is changed slightly because this provides me with the skills needed to read the mood and talk with people better.
I think the blog was very helpful. It’s useful for me. These Tips all good. My most recognized is Tip 4: use my feelings to help make decisions. Ask myself then following my feeling to make decision.
I found it to be a useful blog. I now have a better understanding about emotional intelligence and how I can be more emotionally intelligent.
I really enjoyed the blog and agree that emotional intelligence is important in the work place and in everyday life. It is important to acknowledge your feelings as well as the feelings of your colleagues to have a cohesive work environment.
New to me. Never heard of it before . Interesting/good idea. Self awareness in all circumstances . Don’t advise, command, control n critize.
The blog was easy to read and understand.
Emotional Intelligence is useful both with family and friends, and in the work place.
I particularly liked tip 8 and plan to start using this from today.
It is very useful, easy to read and understand.
I try to learn from it, because it will help me to build a good relationships in work.
I think it was helpful and useful.
Being responsibility for your feeling was the best tip.
Thank you this was very informative and will be useful in the future for me.
I thought the blog was good and very understandable.
I found the top ten intelligence tips useful and helpful.
These tips are easy to read and concise. This is a must read for anyone who deals with other people.
I understood the blog without difficulty, I learned a few great tips that I did not have knowledge on prior to reading this. I look forward to putting some of these tips into action.
The blog was written in plain English easy to understand etc.
It gave examples of intelligence tips beware of life in general.
May come in handier in the work place also of others.
The tips are easy to read and simple to understand.
The tips were helpful and I learnt self awareness.
The blog was excellent! It gave me a better understanding of self-awareness, empathy and dealing sensitively with others. Changing negatives into a positive approach will help me develop positive relationships with other people.
The blog is good to start people realizing the importance of empathy.
The blog was written in plain English and easy to understand.
It gives examples of how to to be emotionally intelligent for life in general.
This will come in handy in the workplace with others.
Good and useful tips because it emphasizes the preservation of personal characteristics.
l found the blog to be a positive reminder on how to be more aware of my feelings and how to make better choices.
I found the blog be a positive reminder to be more a ware of my feelings. Use feelings to make better choices
I found it to be a useful blog, it had very useful tip.
This was easy to understand and very informative.
yes, its really helpful and its show an tell us about how to work business with other people and how to keep a relationship with other person.
This is very useful information. It lists helpful tips to help with, communicating and interacting with others. Whether it be with family, friends, employers, colleagues or members of the public.
I found the Top 10 Emotional Tips blog to be very helpful. I did find the blog useful on how to develop better ways of interacting with others. I do agree with the blog tips, as it helps me label my feelings rather than labeling people or situations
The tips were easy to comprehend and will be beneficial to my future interactions with professional business people.
I think this blog could be very useful to some people.
Personally I did not benefit from reading this blog as it is information I have learnt in the past.
Good information to have though
I found it very interesting and useful to develop Emotional Intelligence
I found this article very helpful in understanding emotional intelligence as I had no idea that it even existed. The top 10 tips are great and help me further understand the topic.
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Hopefully your tips has helped others.
I found this blog to be a very positive read full of self awareness and reminders.
A useful summary of 10 tips to develop your EQ. I agree with the 10 tips as they can be used to improve your relationships.
The blog was very informative and very easy to understand. This will be very helpful in forming positive and healthy relationships with employees, employers and with people in general. I’m certain this blog will assist me in my day to day and work-related conversations. I find ‘tip 7’ really useful and it’s something I will be sure to use.
I found this blog to be useful with these tips. I like tip number 4.
I found emotional intelligence tips useful. I like tip number 3
I found this useful to help connect with my emotions.
I found the top 10 emotion intelligence tips, to be somewhat helpful.
The tips are good for giving us examples of ways we can use much less confrontational language to respond to stressful situations
the blog was every helpful because it gives you all the tips to pick out emotional flaws and how to deal with them.
This was a very good article because it helps people that have been through emotional situations, and is a magnificant guide on how to tackle different emotional scenario’s.
I found the ‘ top 10 emotional intelligence tips ‘ very helpful. I feel it was very insightful with how I would approach someone about how I feel. The blog had taught me to be more emotionally intelligent.
Now I know how to have a good and professional relationship. It was a complete and useful article. Good job!
I did not find the blog that that helpful,not bothered about my feelings.
It makes me more aware of my body language and feelings to communicate with others…
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with my training its helpful. I’m a martial artist. helps to control myself and feel for others
I’m a martial artist . Helps to control myself and feel for others.
Tip 10 is now my life moto. It is a good reminder to not let negativity into your life.
I believe this emotional intelligence blog was useful and helpful with my everyday life and future workplace. You should always be respectful to others and consider their feelings. I found this blog to be well presented and easy to read.
I myself found this useful in that it can help me learn how to use emotions to my advantage and the advantage of others, I haven’t ever really learnt anything about emotional intelligence so this gives me a huge insight into things I never knew about.
The advice concerning using “feeling words” is very illuminating, phrasing can go a long way in controlling the mood of a conversation/exchange so it is nice to have thatt reinforced, it’s got me actively thinking about it.
What and informative and helpful article. There are many applications of emotional intelligence. The wide range of tips and strategies shown here can be learned easily and effectively, if you practice open-mindedness.
I would recommend this article to people wanting to start learning emotional intelligence.
This blog was easy to understand and is useful to make you aware of Emotional Intelligence.
it is useful to learn how to use feelings to help determine what behavior you can adopt to influence your daily Emotional Intelligence.
Yes this blog was very helpful indeed. I found the blog tips to be very handy and useful.
Why???
The blog gave me confidence, to enter the path of employment with a positive attitude
Facing an interview with more confidence. To interact with people and gain more skills.
Yes Bounce is an excellent program to for people who needs to step in to job seeking.
I will never hesitate in recommending this program to anyone in the future.
I thought the blog was very informative, it’s always important to show respect and empathy towards others. It taught me to ignore others if they aren’t valuing my time. Always keep a level head and not let your emotions control what you say, because sometimes it can be offensive to others.
I found the tips useful and helpful
was informative for people who aren’t aware of it
Tbh I didn’t need the help I grew up looking at the positives more then negatives but this would be helpful for others .
Useful information. “Emotional Intelligence” & “Working with Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Coleman are great books for further information on the topic.
Yes, It was very interesting and helpful and makes me understand about my reactions.
i learn to emotional intelligence tips to get we our day.
i great with biog tips.
10 tips tell more important things about our live.
I found it very helpful blog. a good reminder on good communication and understanding in the work place
Yes I did find it very useful and helped me develop better ways to interact with others.
Very nice. Understand a bit more of peoples behaviour.
The blog,made me understand and educated me to developbetter ways of interacting with others.i also found it very useful
Found the tips very useful. Will definitely use these techniques throughout my work environment.
It was interesting and I will try to employ some of the tips where I think I should need to. I hope to be able to improve my self and those around me, especially with tip number 1.
The blog was helpful but it felt a little cheesy in some ways. The tips were what I’ve heard before and i didn’t really gain anything new from the blog post. I do agree with most of the tips, but i prefer honesty and being direct without being blunt either. The tips seemed to be about “beating around the bush” more than being straight to the point and upfront in interacting with others. That all being said, i loved tip 6; i could really embrace the one. Tip 10 made a valid point, but it was sort of unrealistic in the real world, in my opinion, because avoiding co-workers and supervisors isn’t always possible or even achievable.
I found that Tip 1 highlighted what I consider a clear definition between stating what or how someone supposingly effected to claiming or owing how you feel in relation to something. Tip 6 & tip 8 gave active solutions, great stuff. The Do’s and Don’ts were clearly illustrate. I like the alternative solutions. This is a great tick list for personal and professional use.
I think this was a great blog. The tips covered were relatable and easy to understand. I think this could benefit anyone who knows someone.
Thanks for this 🙂
The article “Top 10 Emotional Intelligence Tips”, written by Maria Smith describes the importance of emotional intelligence. This topic covers a personal awareness of their own feelings such as, self-awareness, empthay and emotions of others. While covering these topics, it gives tips in relation to the reader’s workplace or helping them improve their relationship with potential workers or co-workers.
While this article provides invaluable tips and advice to readers who may have trouble understanding themselves and relationships, these tips does not cover any new or unknown topics that I am not aware of. My personal view of this article is that while well written, it does not provide valuable insights in my personality or relationships. At the same time, this article is short and does not expand any further than the generalised topics involved in the main subject matter it tries to address.
I found the blog too be a good reminder to better use my feelings to handle a situations.
Yes I found it to be very helpful to know more .
Great blog with some very helpful ideas for interacting in both personal and professional situations. Would love some expansion on utilising each tip – a real-life example using each of the ten tips would be great and really beneficial to a wider audience.
This blog was helpful. It taught me how to talk with others.
This was a good read
I found the tips really useful as it will help me to better myself with others around me, to show respect and be more empathy towards others. I am always the kind of person to help others in a positive way. Very informative and useful for everybody in the workforce.
Great tips on EQ
The tips were very useful