emotional intelligence and self reflection (Monday, July 26, 2010 / 5:35 AM)
In the past when looking for a job, the employer usually looks at the certificate and qualification of the job applicants, which is IQ (Intelligence quotient). EQ was never a factor that contributes to whether they will get employ. But time has change, now the employer is looking at the EQ (emotional intelligence) of the applicants as well.
Having both EQ and IQ for the applicants is definitely an advantage when it comes to the chance of being employ. EQ varies with people as some of them might be better at building relationships while some are better at self controls when facing with a rude boss or customers.
Older employees would have better EQ compare to younger employees as they have more experience to find a solution out of a difficult situation. Research collected by the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations shows that salespeople, military recruiters, and executives with better scores on written EQ tests outperformed and out-earned colleagues who scored lower.
EQ is also important to higher position such as manager or executive as they need to have this to be able to communicate and build good relationship with his subordinates. This is beneficial to the companies as the conflicts among employees will reduce. Thus they could work better together to meet the deadlines and budgets.
Self reflections
For the past 14 weeks, the whole blogging experience was normal. Writing in business style was fun as it does not have so many restrictions as what normal English language style has. And we must developed the “you attitude” in the writing format as the usual “I”, “me” cannot be use.
This is also the first time writing a business style format on a blog. The article each week was also very interesting although some article was too long and boring. And some article which is so long cause me to become sleepy after reading it only a few times.
Sometimes I just did this blogging exercise for the sake of doing homework. As blogging was not a favourite thing I like to do on the web. I usually have to spend at least an hour just to finish up the week’s topic
By:Gao Wei
