Balance for Busy Women: Your Prosperity - Career

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
Jackson Brown - Life’s Little Instruction Book.

When you find happiness at work you give yourself over 2,000 hours of added joy and satisfaction every year. Do you realize the average full-time employee spends 25 to 30 percent of their time at work?
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As this may be the new predictor of success, you may very well be asked your EQ instead of your IQ. So what exactly is EQ? EQ, or emotional intelligence, is a person’s ability to understand their own emotions and those of others and to act appropriately using these emotions.

The term emotional intelligence encompasses the following five characteristics and abilities.

Self-awareness: Recognizing your emotions and their effects, knowing your strengths and limitations, and having a strong sense of your capabilities and self-worth.

Mood management: Managing your moods by keeping disruptive emotions and impulses in check, and channeling your feelings and resources to enhance your performance and productivity.

Self-motivation: Knowing how to use your emotions to propel yourself into action toward a desired goal and to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks.

Empathy: Recognizing others’ feelings and perspectives; reading and understanding the dynamics of relationships; and anticipating, recognizing and meeting key constituents’ needs.

Managing relationships: Inducing desirable responses in others through communication, collaboration, influence, and relationship-building.

Researchers have concluded that people who manage their own feelings well and deal effectively with others are more likely to live content lives.
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Career Tip - Use active voice when writing your resume.