Essay: The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence

In this essay a number of topics including emotional intelligence theory and practices, the importance of emotional intelligence to community workers and social workers , two emotional competencies that apply to myself and finally emotional intelligence interpersonal competencies that I want to develop to be effective in my future career shall be discussed throughout this essay.
Emotional intelligence is a term that holds many definitions and theories. Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to recognize their own emotions, the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence is not set in stone and is something everyone can improve. Emotional intelligence can be broken down into five factors, according to Daniel Goleman they are self-awareness, …show more content…
Social workers and Community workers should always thrive to develop their emotional intelligence. “When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion” (lt), Both professions should continue to try increase their emotional intelligence as both careers consist of socialising with the public and may come across scenarios where emotions are running high and may be stressful to both the worker and the public, and both workers would need to use emotional intelligence to over come …show more content…
“Community action researchers also could help group members to become more aware of their emotional impact on each other and on other groups in the community, and to use this knowledge to plan and carry out effective efforts for community change” . If the worker was unsure of their own emotional intelligence they wouldn’t be fit to try and help group members become more aware if their own emotional intelligence. Which would then defeat the purpose of trying to empower the community if they were not aware of their own emotional intelligence and its