Succeeding in today´s world requires a combination of functional, self-management, special knowledge, and technology skills. How relevant is emotional intelligence to this mix?
We are living in very challenging and uncertain times, where people have to be equipped with a strong arsenal of diversified solid psychological tools and skills to be able to navigate through the current unexpected changes of the modern world, especially during the pandemic and all of its consequences in our world.
While speaking about skills, nowadays we not only speak about the vitality of hard skills, such as digital literacy, knowledge in your domain, and tool skills learnt through vocational training designed for tackling job-specific duties but also some “soft” skills like communication and interpersonal skills, emotion management and emotional intelligence skills, which have the utmost power of making you benefit from your relationships, both at work and in your private lives.1
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is believed to have a number of positive features that have the potential of changing our lives for the better and equipping you with some major soft skills to handle life successfully alongside handling your very own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. These EQ soft skills, in fact, will undoubtedly help you succeed not only in your personal relationships in your private life but also both in academia and in the
