Inspiring Workplaces: Want to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence? Start With These Five Behaviors

Published: Wed, 11/26/25

Updated: Wed, 11/26/25

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Want to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence? Start With These Five Behaviors

An article by Jeff Haden in Fast Company suggests the people who do these five things are more emotionally intelligent at work:

1.Emotionally intelligent people ask for advice instead of feedback, because they understand when you ask people for advice they feel less put on the spot and according to research offer up more specific ideas.

2.Emotionally intelligent people embrace (even if they don't like it) negative feedback because they understand there could be some gems of truth in the feedback that will help them improve.

3.Emotionally intelligent praise people more often, sometimes for no other reason than because!

4.Emotionally intelligent people admit when they messed up, helping to create a vulnerability loop that makes it easier for the people around them to admit when they've messed up.

5.Emotionally intelligent people skip the small talk and make an intentional effort to have more meaningful and fulfilling conversations.

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Hold an "Out Compliment Each Other" theme day where everyone is encouraged to compliment each other with the agreement that the person receiving the compliment now has to crank it up a notch and "out compliment" the same compliment back to the person.

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