Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a skill that identifies and governs the emotions of an individual, or groups. EI also helps in understanding the emotional needs of other people, creates a sense of self-awareness and determines people skills. The skills, knowledge and proficiency of an individual are more valuable than EI. In teamwork the team members are responsible to maintain healthy relations with sub-ordinates; hence it becomes a necessity to analyze how individuals comprehend and cope with emotional intelligence that can influence the collective and team effectiveness. Expertise and cognitive function are intertwined, in turn impacting on the emotional component of teamwork (Mccallin & Bomfard 388).
A person’s emotional intelligence does affect the other members in the team, and I completely agree to this statement as social skills are needed to communicate with the other team members, and if an individual is not able to communicate well then it can break the team and its performance. Managers do play an important role in building a high performance team and it is the duty of the manger to understand the interpersonal skills and the behavior of a team member with other team members.
According to me emotional intelligence is a driving factor to realize our emotions and how these emotions affect the people around us. Our success mainly depends on the EI and many people fail to realize this fact. It is possible that we can influence others even without saying anything through our emotions. Success of the team depends heavily on the perception of each member’s emotions.
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