Recognizing, regulating, and applying your own and others' emotions to enhance relationships and decisions, from self-management to org-level culture.
Beyond simply feeling emotions, it is the ability to perceive your emotional state, regulate it, empathize with others, and leverage emotions strategically. It spans four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, shaping collaboration and leadership.
You are first realizing that emotions influence behavior and judgment. You can distinguish basic emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, and anxiety, and express current feelings in words. You are beginning to consciously observe emotions and explore your inner landscape through guided prompts.
What Comes Next
If you've checked off most of this list, you're ready for the Using Emotions stage, recognizing recurring emotional patterns and practicing non-judgmental acceptance of uncomfortable emotions. Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso(2004)'s four-branch ability model suggests building on emotion perception by observing and recording your body signals for 30 seconds each time an emotional shift occurs during work.
Four-domain (Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Management) and 12-competency framework serving as the core basis for level-specific competency scope and checklist design.
5 composite scales (Self-Perception, Self-Expression, Interpersonal, Decision Making, Stress Management) and 15 subscales, providing measurable behavioral indicators for checklist item design.
Know Yourself-Choose Yourself-Give Yourself three-phase growth model, established by a globally recognized authority in EI, reflecting the developmental path from self-awareness to contributing to others in level progression design.
Peer-reviewed paper systematically defining the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso four-branch ability model (Perceiving → Using → Understanding → Managing Emotions), providing academic grounding for L1-L7 level boundary design and checklist behavioral indicators through its developmental stages and measurable sub-competencies.
