At the end of this module you will be able to:

• Familiarize with the concept of Emotional Intelligence
…so to better equip learners with a robust theoretical background   

• Experiment and test your EI in real-life settings
Learners will be exposed to the very fundamentals of EI and the framework that help them in navigating social environments

• Being more self-aware and self-effective combining the EI framework with EntreComp
...to better manage and understand the true power of emotions for a positive state of mental well-being

• Combining emotional awareness with Social Intelligence
Where Social Intelligence stands for the ability to build and nurture positive and stimulating interpersonal relations

In IHF’s module, you had the opportunity to familiarise with the official EU framework for education and training on entrepreneurial skills and how it can be a strategic resource of reference for new comers in the labour market.

By “Resources” we mean the competences area that is most relevant for the acquisition of key personal, material and non-material resources that are instrumental in favouring people’s empowerment and professionalization.

The five competences listed under this training area enhance and strengthen your competitiveness in the labor market as strategic lever for your job-hunting.

Each of the listed competences represents for you a focus of interest as it provides for the most valuable skills to thrive in business and professional life.

2.1 Self-awareness and self-efficacy
2.2 Motivation and perseverance
2.3 Mobilising resources
2.4 Financial and economic literacy
2.5 Mobilising others

The Resources’ Competences and opportunities for employability

Emotional intelligence is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one's thinking and actions.
Source:  P. Salovey, John D. Mayer, 1990, Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is an integral part of  many studies on behavioral psychology applied to organizations, businesses and management, leadership and Human Resources. For many years the concept has been a trending topic for debate and discussion among academics and professionals.

The EntreComp framework does not refer to Emotional Intelligence directly, but at the same time, many of the EntreComp’s areas of interest share the same field of Emotional Intelligence.

The first empirical studies on the roles played by “emotions” in our everyday began in the 1920s (Averile & Nunley, 1922) with a study conducted to understand how humans comprehend and analyze emotions.

For the next 70 years, the research done  on Emotional Intelligence and “emotions” was  relatively insignificant . That was until 1990 when two authors, (John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey) published a ground-breaking article simply entitled  Emotional Intelligence, which was  destined to become one of the most influential articles in contemporary social science.

Emotional intelligence became a “pop” phenomenon in 1995 when the American psychologist and essayist Daniel Goleman, wrote the bestseller Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ...

The international success of this self-help book has helped the concept of Emotional intelligence reach out beyond academic studies  and become extremely popular with  the general public.

Ever since, a countless number of authors, speakers, and researchers have followed in the footsteps of  Mayer, Salovey and Goleman.