10 Ways To Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

Leadership skills. Sales ability. Communication skills. Intuition. These are all manifestations of one critical skill–emotional intelligence (EI). Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify, understand, and manage your own emotions, as well as those of others. It is essential to decision-making and relationship-building. In fact, research shows emotional intelligence accounts for nearly 90 percent of what helps people advance their career when IQ and technical skills are similar.