What is Emotional Intelligence? Why Should I Care?

What is Emotional Intelligence?   Why Should I Care? By Author and Blogger, Jane Ryan, Certified EQi, Leadership  Career Coach What is Emotional Intelligence?  Let’s begin with the fact that Emotional Intelligence (sometimes referred to as EQ or EI or EQi) is a huge and powerful skill everyone can develop to become more successful in life and career. During the early 1990s, Peter Salovey (Yale University) and John D. Mayer, (University of New Hampshire) researched and presented the framework for emotional intelligence (EI) as, "the subset of social intelligence and they posited EI involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions" (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). People who have honed the skill of emotional intelligence are better at understanding and expressing their own emotions, recognizing emotions in others, regulating the effect of emot...