Emotional Intelligence Can Be

EQ

Tact

Common sense

Street smarts

Emotional Quotient

Emotional strength

Being smarter with feelings

A universal core character strength

When we know what makes others tick

A skill that can be learned and measured

Recognising the feelings of those around us

Social awareness: what we sense about others

Social facility: what we do with our awareness

The capacity to know ourselves and to know others

Perceiving, using, understanding, and managing emotions

The ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions

The capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions

The ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions

The array of skills and characteristics that drive leadership performance

The capacity to reason about emotions, and of emotions, to enhance thinking

Feeling comfortable and saying the right thing in whatever setting we’re in

The ability to understand and manage others, to act wisely in human relations

Self management, self awareness, social awareness, and relationship management

The ability to understand and manage our own emotions, and those of the people around us

Being aware that emotions drive behaviors and impact people either positively or negatively

Knowing what we're feeling, what our emotions mean, and how these emotions can affect other people

The capability to manage and control our emotions and the ability to influence the emotions of others as well

To express and control emotions, and the ability to understand, interpret, and respond to the emotions of others

Being aware of the motives and feelings of ourselves and others, and how to fit into different social situations

Abilities to join intelligence, empathy and emotions to enhance thought and understanding of interpersonal dynamics

The ability to recognize, understand and manage our own emotions and recognize, understand and influence the emotions of others

The capacity to be aware of, control, and express our emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically

The ability to perceive emotion, integrate emotion to facilitate thought, understand emotions and to regulate emotions to promote personal growth

An aggregated measure of self- and social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change

Knowing our emotions, managing our emotions, recognizing emotions in others, managing relationships with others, and motivating ourselves to achieve goals

Being aware that emotions can drive our behavior and impact people (positively and negatively), and learning how to manage those emotions – both our own and others

Social awareness (including empathy, attunement, empathic accuracy, and social cognition) and social facility (including synchrony, self-presentation, influence, and concern)

The ability to understand, use, and manage our own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict

The ability to monitor our own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior

Self-awareness - being more aware, by clearly seeing what we feel and do, choice - being more intentional, by doing what we mean to do and purpose - being more purposeful, by doing things for a reason

The abilities to accurately perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth

Emotional awareness, or the ability to identify and name our own emotions; the ability to harness those emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes both regulating our own emotions when necessary and helping others to do the same