Emotional intelligence matters because it is the ability to manage one's own temperament and innate abilities like IQ to achieve effective performance. Personality represents a person's inherent traits, while emotional intelligence is how well they learn to control their temperament and use their potential. When emotional intelligence allows people to harness their competencies, it acts as the "glue" that connects personality and potential to successful work performance and behaviors.
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1. Why Emotional Intelligence Matters?!
Personality
represents who
a person is and
includes their
temperament
and innate
resources (such
as IQ).!
EI is how well a
person learns to
manage their
temperament
and harness
their innate
resources (their
potential).!
Competencies !
are how this
manifests in
terms of a
persons work
performance
and behaviours.!
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EI is therefore the glue or the missing link that turns
individual personality (potential) into effective performance!