Although the study of emotional intelligence is no longer a new topic, many people are still unaware of what EI is. This presentation provides clarification on the subject of emotional intelligence and includes several easy to understand definitions.

1. Emotional Intelligence and its Influence on Leadership
Keele Taylor, MA Organizational Leadership

2. Did you know?
• Emotions were the first to form within the brain. They can
be found within all three layers of the brain. Before anything
else, living creatures had feelings (they still do).
• Animals and the first human beings primarily depended on
their emotions for survival. Fight or flight are responses
generated through emotions.

3. Emotional Intelligence
• Optimism is the driving force behind emotional intelligence.
• EI was first introduced to the public in 1995 by Goleman, but
the original founders were aware of the benefits of emotional
intelligence as early as 1985.
• Reuven Bar-On was the first to present EI during his
doctoral dissortation to the academic community.

4. Reuven Bar-On
Emotional intelligence is, “that aspect of human
intelligence that governs our ability to recognize, understand,
control and use emotions in solving problems of a personal
and interpersonal nature” (Bar-On, 2007, p.27).

5. John Mayer &
Peter Salovey
“The term Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to the
processes involved in the recognition, use, understanding, and
management of one’s own and other’s emotional state to
solve emotion-laden problems and to regulate behavior” (Mayer
and Salovey, 2004, introduction)

6. Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence is, “the capacity for recognizing
our own feelings and those of others, for motivating
ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in
our relationships” (Opdycke, 2007, n.p.).

7. The Four Branch
Model of EI
Branch Description of Measure Relation to Intelligence
and Personality
Perceiving Emotions Ability to identify emotions in Inputs information to intelligence
faces, pictures
Facilitating Thought with Ability to harness emotional Calibrates and adjusts thinking
Emotion information and directionality to so that cognitive tasks make use
enhance thinking of emotional information
Understanding Emotions Ability to comprehend emotional Central locus of abstract
information about relationships, processing and reasoning about
transitions from one emotion to emotions and emotional
another, linguistic information information
about emotions
Managing Emotions Ability to manage emotions and Interface with personality and
emotional relationships for personal goals
personal and interpersonal
growth
Salovey and Mayer created the Four-Branch Model of Emotional Intelligence, with a focus on its relation to
intelligence and personality (Salovey, 2004, p165).

8. EI and Leadership
According to Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee, 2002:
“Great leaders move us. They ignite our passion and inspire
the best in us. When we try to explain why they are so
effective, we speak of strategy, vision, or powerful ideas. But
the reality is much more primal: Great leadership works
through emotions. (p.3)

9. E.I./ I.Q.
“The ability to handle one’s personal emotions and to
recognize the emotions of others is an intelligence that
many believe extends and outweighs the abilities of the
IQ (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee, 2002).
However
“It is very important to understand that emotional
intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the
triumph of heart over head – it is the unique intersection
of both” (Caruso, 2005, n.p.).

10. In Conclusion
According to Bourey and Miller (2001):
Emotional intelligence and IQ are distinct yet
complementary forms of our overall intelligence. While
people need a certain baseline of IQ to perform well in
their work and in life, emotional intelligence is what
differentiates outstanding leaders, teams, and
organizations from others. (p.4)