Emotional Intelligence is something which is within us that helps us to sense how we feel and enables us to truly connect with others and form a bond. It gives us the ability to be present and listen to someone when they most need it. And emotional intelligence is that sense of internal balance within us that enables us to keep our composure, make good decisions, communicate successfully, and maintain effective leadership even when under stress. The main important thing is ti make that trusting relationships with people, because Relationships are so important to our success in business—and not just our relationships with clients. Our internal relationships, the ones we have with our colleagues and team members, are equally important. They can make or break us! And the quality of our internal relationships determines the effectiveness of our organizational cultures.
Marketing people face many challenges every day tough prospects and customers, stress, putting out fires, busy calendars, etc. Those things may never change. But obviously I will say your reaction to them can be recognized, controlled and improved by increasing your self-awareness.And also I will say you can’t change how you think and feel about something so you have learn how to control your emotion and react to it. Medical devices industry is one of the industry where you have to deal with EI on daily basis specially if you are a marketing person, because we are making devices to help people so they can have more mobility, they can live a better life so the important thing is to convince them that yes this thing can make your life style way better and you don’t have to suffer. In other words I will say it is all about wining the trust of a person and being a marketing guy in medical device industry you have to deal with people emotions and sometime their feelings and you have to learn that how you can make a business out of it than get flooded with their feelings.