What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)?
- Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand one’s emotions as well as that of others to channelize them to build better interpersonal relations or to get work done.
- It is a subset of social intelligence
- People with emotional intelligence often have high empathy and they are often able to inspire people for a common cause.
- Emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ/EI) concerned with personal understanding and managing emotion.
What is Social Intelligence (SQ)?
- Social intelligence is the ability to understand and build a successful relationship and navigate social environments. It develops with experience with people and learning from success and failure in a social environment.
- People with social intelligence have good social, verbal, and nonverbal communication skills, and are good at playing different social roles.
- Social intelligence is more about the future where people build such relationships for future survivability.
Difference between Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence (EQ vs SQ)
| Emotional Intelligence (EQ) | Social intelligence (SQ) |
|---|---|
| Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand one’s emotions as well as that of others to channelize it to build better interpersonal relations or to get work done. It is a subset of social intelligence. | Social intelligence is the ability to build a successful relationship and navigate social environments. It develops with experience with people and learning from success and failure in a social environment. |
| It is an intrapersonal skill | It is an interpersonal skill |
| It is concerned with personal understanding and managing emotion. | It is more about the future where people build such relationships for future survivability. |
