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Business Definition for: Emotional Capital

  • the intangible organizational asset created by employees' cumulative emotional experiences, which give them the ability to successfully communicate and form interpersonal relationships. Emotional capital is increasingly being seen as an important factor in company performance. Low emotional capital can result in conflict between staff, poor teamwork, and poor customer relations. By contrast, high emotional capital is evidence of emotional intelligence and an ability to think and feel in a positive way that results in good interpersonal communication and self-motivation. Related concepts are intellectual capital and social capital.

Additional Resources

The 90% Factor EQ (Emotional Intelligence) And The New Workplace
In this age of the knowledge worker, intellectual capital, connecting learning across the organization, and leveraging human capital, the seemingly simple, yet most profound, act of Emotional Intelligence (or EQ, emotional quotient) - listening - provides us a major clue to competitiveness. Successful organizations in the future will be those...
Tags: workplace, emotional intelligence, human capital, leadership, tools & techniques, management, human resources, workforce management
White papers 2007-01-01
What Is The Role Of Emotional Intelligence In Business Today
This paper explains: what is emotional intelligence; what does emotional intelligence have to do with business; management and emotional intelligence; leadership and emotional intelligence; what is the role of emotional intelligence in business and in the future. It's likely that emotional intelligence is going to continue to become even more...
Tags: lovetoknow, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-01-01
Leadership And Emotional Intelligence
"Emotional Intelligence, also called EI and often measured as an Emotional Intelligence Quotient or EQ, describes an ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage the emotions of one's self, of others, and of groups." Emotional intelligence can be increased by practicing being more aware, by being more conscious...
Tags: emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2007-12-01
Sales Career And Emotional Intelligence: The Elements of a Good Emotional Intelligence - PPT Presentation
Emotional intelligence ppt presentations are high in demand today. This is because of the fact that recent studies have shown the importance of emotional intelligence to success. Corporations want to learn more about emotional intelligence because it could be the key to the rise of their businesses. Schools want to...
Tags: sales, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2007-12-01
What's Love Got To Do With It? : Opening the Heart to Emotional Intelligence
The defines a concept of emotional intelligence that has become part of everyone's thinking. What we already knew, but had failed to acknowledge -- that the emotions matter and that emotional competence is as important as intelligence to help people do well -- has become a culture-wide "paradigm shift" readying...
Tags: emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2001-05-01
Leadership Skills and Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence has become a popular topic in the business press in recent years. This article helps many leaders to understand and develop emotional intelligence competencies. This study compares scores on Benchmarks to self-reported emotional intelligence as measured by the BarOn EQ-i. It shows that the key leadership skills and...
Tags: leadership, emotional intelligence, management, tools & techniques
White papers 2004-12-02
Avoiding Costly Hiring Mistakes: EQ (Emotional Intelligence) And The New Workplace
For companies serious about recruiting, selecting, hiring, harnessing, and growing their human capital - what we call human capital profiling - it is absolutely essential that the "Soft skills" - or Emotional Quotient EQ - be identified, tested, and integrated. With a well-developed EQ workforce, plus the right technical and...
Tags: hiring, workplace, financial, human capital, recruitment & selection, emotional intelligence, human resources, workforce management, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2007-01-01
Do You Really Need Emotional Intelligence?
Every time a 'New idea' like EQ or emotional intelligence comes along, it's tempting to write it off a just another fad. However, although it is often true that all we get in the personal development field is 'Re-packaging', emotional intelligence seems to have hit many nails on the head...
Tags: management, tools & techniques, leadership, emotional intelligence
White papers 2008-01-01
Self-Awareness At Work: How Reacting To Emotional Triggers Affects Professional Performance
Employers no longer just look for a set of industry related skills. They look for leadership potential and that includes a high level of Emotional Intelligence EI. The competencies that make up EI include self-awareness, social awareness, self management and relationship management. Being aware of the emotional triggers and why...
Tags: performance, trigger, suite101, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-08-07
The Benefits Of Emotional Intelligence
One of the immediate goals of emotional intelligence is to increase self-awareness. Not to the point where one spend all the time analyzing him or her and looking inward, but enough so one can assess quickly the emotional states, and, more importantly, the cost they have for one. More emotional...
Tags: benefit, redsofts.com, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-01-01
The Role Of Emotional Intelligence (EI)
What is Emotional Intelligence? There has been much debate in recent years as to whether or not emotional intelligence is an appropriate tool to measure leadership potential. There has even been debate with opposing views as to whether the subject of emotional intelligence is valid at all! Before such a...
Tags: emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2005-03-03
Emotional Intelligence and Me
It's one thing to be aware of our emotions, and another to effectively manage them. This article focuses on instructions to use emotional intelligence to tackle our daily challenges. A research has shown emotional intelligence accounts for more than 58% of job performance. This article builds upon the author's experience...
Tags: management, tools & techniques, leadership, emotional intelligence
White papers 2004-12-16
Emotional Intelligence: Old Wine With a New Label
Emotional intelligence EQ wasn't "invented" when it was first introduced to the public a decade ago. The power of this method for describing the side of life that is more than mere "smarts" has generated demand for evidence that emotional intelligence is real and more than a flavor of the...
Tags: wine, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2004-11-12
Can Emotional Intelligence Improve Sales And Marketing Management?
Center for Strategic Relations announces an audio tutorial on emotional intelligence in business. This program shares the definition of emotional intelligence and answers the question, "Can emotional intelligence improve sales and marketing management" The author outlines his "Emotional Roadmap" that shows listeners how to deal with emotions in selling to...
Tags: marketing, sales, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-05-22
On the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Organizations
Today emotional intelligence is a popular topic of many discussions among academic scholars and corporate executives. What exactly is emotional intelligence, and what role does it play in business and in education? This paper will attempt to answer these questions by providing definitions and a brief history of Emotional Intelligence...
Tags: management, tools & techniques, leadership, emotional intelligence
White papers 2002-02-19
The Whys and What's of Teaching Emotional Intelligence
The emotions are part of the development. The present emotional intelligence that one has is the product of learning that one has encountered in the past. Incidentally, anyone can redirect their unwanted emotions into more useful ones in the same way as anyone can be taught of the proper ways...
Tags: emotion, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2007-12-01
Emotional Intelligence: What Are The Benefits?
"Emotional intelligence is a form of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor ones own and others" feelings and emotions, to discriminate amongst them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and action. This paper explains aspects concerned with emotional intelligence such as productivity; performance, profitability; stress...
Tags: benefit, life-shapers, emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-10-21
Emotional Intelligence: A Pathway to Self-Understanding and Improved Leadership Capacities
In 1995, Goleman wrote his book, Emotional Intelligence, based upon Salovey and Mayer's (1990) work. Since then, Emotional Intelligence EQ has become one of the hottest leadership topics in corporate America and has filtered into the not-for-profit and educational arenas as well. It is through an individual's emotional intelligence that...
Tags: emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2006-08-01
Characteristics Of Emotional Intelligence
Many experts today are teaching emotional intelligence. People go to seminars, take classes, and generally pay a lot of cash to listen to someone teaching about emotional intelligence. People want to learn - Of course, this reason is at the core of teaching emotional intelligence. After all, who will be...
Tags: emotional intelligence, leadership, tools & techniques, management
White papers 2007-12-01
The Emotional Side Of Intellectual Capital
If we want to compete in the 21st Century marketplace, we can't do it with "Dumbed down" and "Numbed out" employees. Creating a workforce that is "Fast, flexible, focused, and friendly" (to use Rosabeth Moss Kantor's term) - and smart; requires a workplace which elicits and sustains positive emotional states....
Tags: marketplace, humannature@work.com, recruitment & selection, workforce management, payroll solutions, human resources
White papers 2008-01-01
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