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The five components of emotional intelligence are: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.^[1]

Empathy (noun) is the understanding of the emotional state or thoughts of another person.

Empathy involves being curious about other people, active listening, self-awareness, emotional intelligence and openness.^[2]

Benefits of empathy skills

Some benefits of empathy skills are:^[3]

1. Better understanding of the needs of people around you

2. More clearly understanding how you affect others

3. Better at understanding non-verbal cues

4. Better for your career, business success and various social endeavors

5. Better equipped to deal with interpersonal conflict. See: Conflict resolution

6. More accurately predict people’s behaviour

7. Greater ability to motivate the people around you. See: Motivation

8. Greater ability to work more effectively with others. See: Interpersonal skills

9. Ability to see the greater social picture. See: Social analysis

10. Greater ability to be a better leader, worker and friend e active listening

Relationship building skills

Agreeableness is one of the Big Five personality traits.

Building strong personal relationships

• Building and maintaining healthy relationships, HealthDirect

• Building and Sustaining Relationships Building and Sustaining Relationships, University of Kansas

• Friendship 101 - 8 ways to build positive relationships with your friends

• Top tips on building and maintaining healthy relationships, Mental Health Foundation

• Building and maintaining relationships, Milne Library

Building strong work relationships

• Building Good Work Relationships

• 5 Keys To Building Lifelong Business And Personal Relationships, Forbes

• Relationship Building Skills: Definitions and Examples

• Relationship Building: How to Build Good Relationships at Work

• 8 Ways To Build Strong Relationships in the Workplace

• How to build real relations at work, Harvard Business Review

Books

• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks. Random House (October 24, 2023)

See also

• Agreeableness
• Atheism and empathy

External links

• What Is Empathy?
• How to Be More Empathetic, WebMD
• How to Be More Empathetic, PsychCentral
• How to Be More Empathetic in a Relationship and Why It Matters, PsychCentral
• Empathic Skills: Definition and Examples
• The most Important Empathy Skills With Examples

References