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What do you perceive as more important in shaping life success? Lots of parents think that in spite of being smarter with good grades and high intellectual functioning, why our kids failed to show appropriate emotions according to the situation. They tend to show increased aggression and impulsive behaviour, aloofness, rigid. During child counselling<\/a><\/strong> session we come across many of these same questions, ending with how to deal with these changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an adult we experience many emotions and when feelings run strong, people often do and say things they wouldn\u2019t usually do. This is what a young child would do all the time. Often raising an intelligent kid is a big task for today\u2019s parents, most parents are focused on improvising their child\u2019s IQ (intelligent quotient), which measures mental abilities like abstract thinking, reasoning, introducing or understanding new ideas, problem solving. But simply having good grades doesn\u2019t stand for his overall intelligence. Mental health experts assesses a person\u2019s EQ (emotional quotient)<\/strong><\/a> which define as ability to understand and manage emotions and use them in a positive ways to relieve stress, effective communications, empathizing with others and removing conflicts in a best approach. In school what matters most is IQ but when you get enter in an organization, how you grow is more down to EQ, Lyons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One such Corporate Wellness Program in Kolkata<\/a><\/strong> discussed about how leaders of corporate world needs to know about their emotional quotient and necessity to develop self awareness, social awareness and relationship management skills in order to get the best outcome from themselves and their team members. If there is lack of emotional intelligence in work place it would lead to strained communication and that could make employees disengaged or disenchanted then ultimately losing their ability and motivation to think and create effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author and\nPsychologist Daniel Goleman suggested the importance of EQ more than IQ in his\nbestselling book Emotional Intelligence<\/em>\nin mid 1990s. He is one of the first people to raise awareness of EQ. According\nto him, IQ comprises only 20% of the factors that influence life success, on\nthe other hand EQ, temperament, wealth, family background and luck make up the\nbalance. This states that cognitive skills such as verbal comprehension,\nreasoning and processing, memory will help the person academically but to get\nthe best out of him IQ traits should be balanced with social \u2013 emotional skills\nas impulse control, coping mechanism, motivation and perseverance. EQ is\ncentered on abilities such as \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n