Emotional Intelligence Flashcards
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A leader notices the team's energy is low before a critical deadline. She tells an energizing story about a past team success. Which EI competency is she applying?
Answer: Inspirational leadership through emotional influence
Using emotional narrative to shift group mood and motivation reflects inspirational leadership, a key social skill within Goleman's EI framework.
Which of these describes 'affective forecasting' and its common failure?
Answer: Estimating how we will feel about future events, often inaccurately
Affective forecasting is predicting future emotional states; people commonly overestimate the intensity and duration of future emotions (impact bias).
Which response best demonstrates cognitive reappraisal as an emotion regulation strategy?
Answer: Telling yourself that a stressful event is actually a growth opportunity
Cognitive reappraisal involves reframing the meaning of a situation to change its emotional impact, a highly effective regulation strategy.
On a Mettl EI assessment, a high score in 'managing others' emotions' would most likely be reflected by:
Answer: Effectively helping others shift from negative to constructive emotional states
Managing others' emotions involves facilitating positive emotional states and helping people move through difficult emotions constructively.
The concept of 'emotional labor' is most relevant to which type of professional role?
Answer: Customer service representatives who must maintain positivity
Emotional labor involves managing one's emotions as part of the job—most prominent in roles requiring sustained positive emotional display toward others.
Which of the following would most directly improve a person's empathic accuracy?
Answer: Attending to nonverbal cues, tone, and context alongside verbal content
Empathic accuracy improves when you integrate verbal content with nonverbal signals like facial expressions, tone, and situational context.
A team member who takes credit for successes but attributes failures to the team is likely exhibiting a failure in which EI domain?
Answer: Self-awareness and accountability
This self-serving attribution bias reflects poor self-awareness and lack of accountability, both of which fall under the self-awareness domain of EI.