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Does Emotional Intelligence Matter?
Research shows... it does!
How much of an impact does emotional intelligence have on your professional success? The short answer is... A LOT! It's a powerful way to focus your energy in one direction with a tremendous result. TalentSmart tested emotional intelligence alongside 33 other important workplace skills and found that emotional intelligence is the strongest predictor of performance, explaining a full 58% of success in all types of jobs.
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What makes someone great at their job? Having knowledge, smarts, and vision, to be sure. But what really distinguishes the world's most successful leaders is emotional intelligence - or the ability to identify and monitor emotions (of their own and of others).
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Most of the experts agreed that there is scientific evidence for emotional intelligence. This is because EI scores can predict other measurable outcomes, in a similar way to IQ. High-ability EI has been shown to correlate with positive relationships and career success.
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Professor Brian Partido, an expert from Ohio State University, explains that "mental health, physical health, and life satisfaction all have been linked to having a high emotional intelligence. Most recently, emotional intelligence was found to be a predictor of academic and clinical performance among dental hygiene students."
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Professor Carrie Lloyd, an expert from Northcentral University, offers another example: "Increased EI has a beneficial effect in terms of current depression status. [My] study indicated that for every 1-point increased in the EQ scaled score, the risk of depression decreased by 5 percent.
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"This is a highly significant result, as this provides clear evidence that; emotional intelligence and depression are strongly related in the older adult population."
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