EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
AS A KEY
LEADERSHIP
SKILL
What Are Hard Skills?
Hard skills are job-specific and teachable abilities
that are required in a candidate. These skills are
those that are acquired through formal education,
training programs, certification programs and
coaching. They include the necessary expertise that
is expected of employees, and are typically
mentioned in job postings and descriptions to give
an idea about what the job in question requires.
Hard skills are those that can somehow be
quantified, defined, evaluated or measured.
What Are Soft Skills?
Soft skills are interpersonal skills which are
used to describe your approach to life, work,
and relationships with other people. Unlike
hard skills, these are not professional jobspecific skills. Soft skills are your unique
selling point which gives you a competitive
edge over others in the workplace and in life.
Other names given to soft skills are people
skills, interpersonal skills, and social skills.
What is IQ?
IQ is an acronym for Intelligence
Quotient[ɪn'telɪdʒənsˌkwəʊʃnt]. The IQ is a measurement of
your intelligence and is expressed in a number.
A person's IQ can be calculated by having the person take an
intelligence test. The average IQ is 100. If you achieve a score
higher than 100, you are smarter than the average person,
and a lower score means you are (somewhat) less smart.
'What is intelligence?'
"The whole of cognitive or intellectual abilities required to
obtain knowledge, and to use that knowledge in a good way to
solve problems that have a well described goal and structure."
Emotional intelligence (EI), emotional leadership
(EL), emotional quotient (EQ) and emotional
intelligence quotient (EIQ)