“Emotional intelligence involves the ability to perceive accurately, appraise, and express emotion: the ability to access and or generate feelings when they facilitate thought; the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge; and the ability to regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth.” Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your own feelings and needs and to sense with a degree of accuracy the feelings, needs and motivations of others and use this information in a way which leads to a win win situations for both parties. Emotional intelligence is a greater predictor of success in life and work than IQ that predicts academic success.

As the inauguration of Barack Obama approaches, I have concluded that I cannot find a better public model emotional intelligence than Obama. The four domains of emotional intelligence are: self-awareness, self-control (anger management), social awareness and relationship management.

A careful review of Obama’s professional and personal life reveals a man who personifies all of the four domains mentioned above. In addition, he is an excellent listener and an assertive communicator and a person who demonstrates his mastery of all of the qualities that makes a great leader and person.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

George Anderson, MSW, BCD, CAMF

Deborah

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