What is emotional intelligence and why is it important in how we communicate, improve our relationships, and achieve overall success in life? 

In recent years, the term EQ or emotional intelligence has become a well-known term for how we behave, react, and communicate with others. In business and various professions, EQ is now part of determining whether a person would make a good fit. This book explores what emotional intelligence is, the skills and tools to develop and improve EQ, and an in-depth analysis of how techniques and skills can play a positive role in how we communicate with people.

This book will explore the beginning of EQ up to how we learn, develop, and use emotional intelligence in our lives:

• Cultivating self-awareness and the ability to recognize our own emotions, feelings, and those of other people
• Identifying areas of improvement to increase our EQ level
• Learning about constructive criticism and how it can be used to our benefit
• Learning self-analysis and why it is an important method to “check-in” with our emotions and well-being
• Recognizing how physiological reactions are reflective of emotions
• Understanding delayed gratification: what is it and how can it be a powerful motivation technique in your life and career
• Using methods of delayed gratification, self-discipline, and impulse control

Developing an understanding of language in both verbal and non-verbal communication is important for the development of emotional intelligence. This book will enable:

• Understanding and using nonverbal cues to improve social EQ skills
• Using verbal traits in our speech patterns that will prove useful in improving how we communicate and understand one another
• Learning to adapt to your environment and adjusting your perspective

Guidance on how to develop better social relationships by improving assertiveness and empathy are provided with practical examples and analysis for each. “Tapping” into our empathy and developing our listening skills include an extensive range of character traits, habits, and methods that can be improved to increase our awareness of others as well as our understanding and compassion, overall.

Emotional intelligence is a forward-thinking set of skills that drives us to connect more actively and develop better ways of communicating with each other, even when a conversation turns controversial or someone displays a sudden outburst. There is an EQ method or skill for handling every scenario.  

The importance of learning and integrating EQ in our lives will improve our career prospects, our friendships, family relationships, and overall connections with people and society. This audiobook can provide you will the full set of tools need to master all the components of emotional intelligence skill-building, while helping you become a better listener, more attentive to others’ needs and connect with more people on a deeper level. Emotional intelligence can be developed, learned, and integrated into your life at any age and within any stage of your life.