# Emotional Intelligence

Skill · Soft Skills and Communication

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/emotional-intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) is the capacity to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions while also perceiving and influencing the emotions of others. Popularized by psychologist Daniel Goleman, it's typically broken into components like self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills, and is considered a key predictor of success in leadership, teamwork, and relationships. Many organizations use EI assessments and training to improve workplace communication and management effectiveness.

Related skills: [Active Listening](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/active-listening), [Conflict Resolution](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/conflict-resolution), [Empathy](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/empathy), [Interpersonal Communication](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/interpersonal-communication), [Resilience](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/resilience), [Stress Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/stress-management), [Leadership](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/leadership), [Nonverbal Communication](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/nonverbal-communication), [Rapport Building](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/rapport-building), [Body Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/body-language), [Self-Awareness](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/self-awareness), [Difficult Conversations](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/difficult-conversations)

## Open roles requiring Emotional Intelligence (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.