7 Intelligences & Emotional Competencies for a Happy & Competitive Life
Emotional Competencies for a Happy & Competitive Life
Self-Awareness
The ability to recognize and understand your own emotional states, feelings, and traits, as well as their effect on others. This develops through self-confidence and the capacity to awaken bright and full of humor.
Self-Regulation
The ability to control impulses and redirect negative emotional states. It involves the ability to suspend judgments and think before acting. Competencies that are measured and developed in this category are: self-control, trustworthiness, awareness, adaptability, focus on results, and initiative.
Empathy
The ability to feel and touch the needs of others, covering the concerns of those around you. In this category, empathy, organizational awareness, and service orientation are measured and developed.
Socialization
Creating networks of relationships, building pleasant climates, and being open and effective in conversations. This category includes: leadership development, influence, communication, change management, conflict management, networking, and cooperation in teams.
Training for Emotional Intelligence
It is almost impossible to succeed without the presence of a specialized coach within the company where people interact (Goleman). Suggest and create long programs (a minimum of 6 months) where participants are motivated and required to self-observe. Provide for the presence of a facilitator who acts as a mirror for the participant. Conduct learner sessions to determine the desired profile, current profile, and actions to reduce the gap between these two profiles.
7 Symptoms of a Competitive and Happy Person
1. Healthy
They prioritize their health, exercise, and eat properly to have the energy required for intellectual, emotional, and physical pursuits. They are full of vitality and spread energy.
2. Serene
They have a calm emotional response generated by their feelings and moods. They are firm, self-controlled, patient, and tactful in their actions. They avoid outbursts, enjoy tranquility, and practice self-dominion and relaxation techniques.
3. Honest
They conduct their conversations and actions based on honesty, ethics, and justice. They express their views truthfully, successfully, and respectfully, with frankness and firmness, but with consideration.
4. Simple
They handle personal and professional relationships with humility and simplicity. They know their values and achievements and learn from all human beings, recognizing that their successes are due to other people. They avoid luxuries, knowing the true value of material possessions, and live in an atmosphere of abundance and prosperity.
5. Sympathetic
They are short, kind, and polite in their speech. They avoid cynical, sarcastic, ridiculing, humiliating, or discriminatory communication. They seek to be assertive but considerate of the context and respectful in their conversations, flowing with good humor, joy, and enjoying human interaction.
6. Helpful
They use the power of service to reach out to the needs of others, taking charge of the concerns of those around them in their family, work, and community. They see service as something honorable and valuable to their life and the lives of others.
7. Synergistic
They create a climate of cooperation and mutual assistance within their work teams, both in the family and the company. They understand the importance of coordination, support, humility to learn, a common vision, creativity, and freedom to generate synergy.
Cognitive, Technical, and Emotional Skills
Within our environment, there is a high degree of emotional dissatisfaction caused by the results of our systems and the opinions expressed by sectors of the community through various means of communication. Satisfaction points to both quality and quantity, encompassing environmental conditions, knowledge, procedures, capabilities, technical skills, and techniques used in art and science through education, training, and entertainment. Society conveys the emotional and cultural heritage of other societies and the contents of a good cognitive education through ideas, feelings, traditions, customs, habits, and techniques. Education, as the sum of processes by which a society or social group transmits its capabilities, covers the entire life of a person in all its extensions. It shapes us physically, mentally, and emotionally within the social sphere. For this reason, it is important to improve our skills, abilities, and willingness to carry out tasks with grace, love, patience, and tolerance, making meaningful decisions. These values mean important qualitative changes in any society, person, or nation.
Multiple Intelligence Theory
The concept of intelligence (Gardner) recognizes this extraordinary gift that all people possess, which is expressed to varying degrees. Intelligence is defined as the ability to respond to questions on an intelligence test. The”theory of multiple intelligence” suggests that intelligence involves the ability to solve problems or make products that are of importance in a cultural context. It also involves addressing a situation in which an object is pursued, as well as determining the right path that leads to that object. According to the multiple intelligence theory, each person has the capacity and ability to create ideas to address situations not only using verbal and mathematical patterns but using the whole range of possibilities, driven by individual motivation and the environment. Gardner identified identifiable patterns that are activated by certain types of information, internally or externally. For example, a pattern for musical intelligence is sensitivity to singing well, while a pattern of linguistic intelligence is the sensitivity to phonological features.
The 7 Intelligences
Gardner announced that the mental ability of each human being is not fixed, undoubtedly shocking the world. Each individual possesses skills that produce a unique intellectual profile. This is what has been called “multiple intelligences.” Intelligence is a set of skills, talents, or mental abilities that normal individuals possess to some degree. These differ in the intensity with which these intelligences are manifested to carry out various tasks, solve various problems, and progress in various fields.
1. Musical Intelligence
The ability to perceive, discriminate, transform, and express musical forms. It includes sensitivity to rhythm, pitch, melody, and timbre. This includes singers, composers, musicians, and dancers.
2. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
The ability to use the whole body to express ideas and feelings, and ease in using bare hands to produce or transform things. It includes physical skills such as coordination, balance, dexterity, strength, flexibility, and speed. These are people who process knowledge through bodily sensations and expressions, like dancers.
3. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
The ability to use numbers effectively and reason adequately. It includes sensitivity to logical patterns and relationships, statements and ratios, functions, and abstractions. Such processes include categorization, classification, inference, generalization, calculation, and demonstration of hypotheses. These are people who feel drawn to arithmetic problems, strategy games, and experiments.
4. Linguistic Intelligence
The ability to use words effectively, either orally or in writing. It includes the ability to manipulate the syntax or meaning of language or practical customs of language. These are people who like to read, write, tell stories, and do crossword puzzles.
5. Spatial Intelligence
The ability to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world and to perform transformations on these perceptions. It includes sensitivity to color, line, form, space, and the ability to visualize relationships. It includes graphically representing visual or spatial ideas. These are people who enjoy pictures and drawings, are fascinated by intricacies or puzzles, use their free time drawing, build with Legos, or daydream.
6. Interpersonal Intelligence
The ability to perceive and distinguish between the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of other people. It includes sensitivity to facial expressions, voice, and gestures. It is the ability to respond effectively to such cues, such as motivating others, or manipulating others to achieve specific goals. These are people who enjoy being surrounded by friends, participating in cooperative games, mediating conflicts, and assuming leadership roles.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
The ability to access one’s own feelings and emotions and discriminate among them and use them to guide one’s behavior. It includes having an accurate self-image, self-awareness, self-esteem, self-discipline, and the ability to self-regulate. These are people who enjoy spending time alone, reflecting on their feelings and ideas, setting goals, and planning their future.