In modern society, one of the main aspects of success besides professional qualification is emotional intelligence. For management positions, it is considered one of the most important competences. In the interaction between colleagues but also with subordinates, the use of other abilities is necessary in addition to intellect, such as controlling your own emotions, using emotions in interacting with the environment, being able to realize the current frame of mind, being able to percip and effectively process the experience of your colleagues, but also to motivate yourself. If we define emotional intelligence as an ability then it would be possible to stimulate its individual areas, which create it. It means, that through its development it is possible to raise satisfaction, but also career growth. All of us have certain biological predispositions, which affect for example our emotional memory, possibly even the ability to take on the perspective of another person, which to a large extent determines the selection of future profession or integration into society. It does not mean that the structure of the brain can be totally changed through the program, but it can eliminate the differences between individuals to some extent. Even people with biological predispositions for the development of emotional intelligence can use the program we have conceived because they very often have individual competencies in extreme values, which limits their lives. Based on practical knowledge, it often happens that people with one of the above competencies do not work with other areas, which results in failure in work and private life. Individuals who focus on working with the individual components of emotional intelligence have a more positive outlook on their own life, we can consider them more resistant to stress, depression, and more contact in society. The goal of our project is not only to acquaint partner organizations with what the EI is but at the same time to provide a direct activity that will ensure the increase of the EI of the participants. All partner organizations that we have chosen work with adults or with whole families with the goal of their integration into society and increasing the level of their education. The participants of our project are adults, who continue to work with adults. Within our project, we will apply different methods to map and extend EI - evaluation sheets, diagnostic aids, tests, training activities, etc. We assume that through the impact of our activities and the direct involvement of partner countries, we will be able to enrich the activities with aspects of a cultural, social, and historical nature. The outcome will be an increase in the emotional intelligence of the participants, but also those who interact with them because we acquire intelligence through social learning. The long-term benefit is exactly the improvement of the quality of life and at the same time the increase of tolerance and openness to new experiences in the population.
1. to raise awareness of the issue of emotional intelligence itself, 2. to map out the quality of information on this issue in individual countries in order to create a program to stimulate emotional intelligence, 3. to create booklet about EI together with links to relevant sites providing quality information for partners, but also for students who have worked with us during individual activities, 4. to select and distribute appropriate diagnostic tools to detect the level of emotional intelligence within the target group, 5. to compare the results of the test of measuring emotional intelligence at the cross-cultural level, 6. to create a publication on emotional intelligence, which will present the results, information on the possibilities of stimulating empirical intelligence, strategies for its development and make available for public, 7. during our program aimed to stimulate the level of emotional intelligence. We raised the level of emotional intelligence of respondents from partner countries, The effectivity was experimentally verrified. 8. to trained the partners and research respondents to apply this knowledge in their work.
The main goal for submitting the project was the need arising from proffesional experience - the need to raise awareness of the issue and also to help stimulate emotional intelligence among workers in helping professions (psychologists, teachers, respondents from the center in Poland, but also social workers). Various researches - even ours - have actually proved that emotional intelligence is an ability that can be stimulated and disseminated in the consciousness of the professional public. Also, emotional intelligence is important to cope with stressful situations and also for the ability to help others.