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Ever since the govt. is coming forward with education policies, the most important focus is learner centred education. But in practice it is still a far cry. Our education, teaching practices, strategies seem to be dogmatic and obsolete. Perhaps the reason is lack of proper professional development programmes for teachers. Most of our teachers do not possess necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to provide quality education. They teach in their own style and hardly make efforts to sharpen their saw. The professional courses for teachers have failed to produce real teachers. If a detailed study is conducted to analyse this, it will certainly find that more than 70 percent of them are teachers  by chance and not by choice. This is perhaps very unfortunate for our education. We need teachers who opt the profession by choice.  Research, experience and studies reveal that there are three important requirements for the teachers to teach effectively. Knowledge, skill and attitude. Thorough
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Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence accounts for 80% success. It is often seen  that people are hired because of their IQ but fired because of lack of EQ. IQ is the ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the knowledge, ideas, opinions. It is cognitive ability. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identity,assess and manage one's own emotions as well as those of others in positive ways. It is the ability to motivate oneself and understand others. IQ is head smart and EQ is heart smart. People having IQ more than 130 have problems with peers, self, group and taking decisions. Although Concept of IQ was first propounded by Alfred Bennet but EQ fully emerged from the research of Daniel Goldman a Behavioural scientist in 1995. He concluded that EQ accounts for 80% success of human being. Higher the EQ better the leader you are.

Components of Emotional Intelligence.
1. self awareness- It refers to Socrates injunction ' Know Thyself' k now your strengths and weaknesses. Do your SWOT analysis.  A leader who knows/understands self has higher EQ.
2- Self Regulation-  Ability to manage , handle and control self, emotions. Must think before acting.

3. Self Motivation-  Motivation is an internal urge.A demotivated leader can never motivate others.
4.Empathy-It is people skill. Helps us to understand how others feel by placing us in their shoes. It is not important to be sympathetic but to be empathetic. 
5. Social skills/effectiveness- these Include settle disputes amicably, communicate effectively, build and maintain excellent intra and inter personal relations. 
Enhancing the EQ- Control over negative emotions .
Be proactive rather than reactive
Managing stress
Giving credit to others for good work.
Self evaluation.
Being good listener and understanding the body language.
Being positive to self and others .Remember-
Life is comedy for those who think and tragedy for those who feel.
There is a paper pencil test for IQ but not for EQ. However, research is on

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