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"Emotional intelligence involves self-awareness, enhancing relationships, improving communication, contributing to leadership, and teamwork. It helps in dealing with difficult situations and making better decisions. Competencies include self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills.

An example of emotional intelligence is self-regulation. It involves recognizing and controlling emotions and breaking down tasks. To develop social skills, one can improve communication skills and learn to build rapport.

Kelly, P., & Quesnell, H. (2016) defined social skills as reading social situations, networking, interacting with others, persuading, negotiating, and taking the lead. Improving communication skills involves listening and articulating messages. Building rapport means nurturing and maintaining positive relationships (Lewis, K., 2021, para. 8)."

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