<p><span>In this article you will learn the following</span><br></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">85 Tips to enhance your social intelligence</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">16 cues of poor social and toxic behaviors</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">- Few Interesting online social intelligence tests - you can take for free</b></p><p>Boosting your Social Intelligence</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">People with prominent Social intelligence and high emotional intelligence</b> are the most fulfilled and successful person.</p><p><strong data-redactor-tag="strong" data-verified="redactor">Emotional intelligence(intrapersonal) and social intelligence (interpersonal) are separate but inter-dependent entities - Social intelligence helps you respond most effectively to complex situations and people.</strong><br></p><p>Having <b data-redactor-tag="b">strong fulfilling relationships can improve</b> your immune system and help you remain mentally and physically healthy.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Loneliness and poor-quality relationships can trigger - stress, health problems and depression</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Social-intelligence is the ability to observe, analyze and understand</b> - yours as well as other people's - <b data-redactor-tag="b">moods, temperaments, feelings and inner-motivations.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">High social-intelligence can boost - your adaptability to changing circumstances and help you maintain a positive attitude</b> when going through challenging phases and trying-times.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Social intelligence also reinforces your emotional intelligence along with strengthening your others forms of intelligence</b>.</p><p>People with <b data-redactor-tag="b">higher levels of social intelligence are likely to bounce back faster from the setbacks and manage complex situations involving people</b>. </p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Your workplace adaptability, your own emotional self-regulation, building fruitful relationships and teamwork </b>- also can make you <b data-redactor-tag="b">highly admired and effective leader.</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">85 Tips to enhance your social intelligence</b></p><p>[Given randomly - most of the single sentence tips have detailed do-it-yourself blog and articles on my two websites as well on my Quora page]</p> <ul><li>1.Develop assertiveness and ability to say No</li> <li>2.Get to understand people at their deepest levels by understanding their motivations, fears, triggers and aspirations etc.</li> <li>3.Learn what they love doing and what are their strengths and how they want to grow and what inspires and motivates them</li> <li>4.Be genuinely interested in knowing others - invest in creating great relationships </li> <li>5.Listen with the purpose of understanding and not replying</li> <li>6.Start recognizing the positive and admirable qualities and traits in others</li> <li>7.Show respect to others by giving the attention that you yourself want and need - Focus on others - shift from I to You or Us</li> <li>8.Be vulnerable and be comfortable in coming out as who you really are</li> <li>9.Accept mistakes and apologize </li> <li>10.Be approachable - especially if you are in a position of serious power</li> <li>11.Share your experiences - learn to share in story telling ways</li> <li>12.Learn to initiate conversations - become good at small-talks</li> <li>13.Learn to have meaningful conversations</li> <li>14.Learn to recognize the efforts and contributing of others </li> <li>15.Give credit to others </li> <li>16.Give sincere appreciation</li> <li>17.Be respectable and pay attention to your personal brand and reputation</li> <li>18.Learn the art of asking thought-provoking, inspiring and engaging as well as meaningful questions </li> <li>19.Speak using simple language yet through a rich vocabulary </li> <li>20.Thank others often</li> <li>21.Learn the art of creating great impression and sustaining it through being consistent in how you come out</li> <li>22.Learn to be comfortable in being yourself</li> <li>23.Avoid going for arguments - where it is a match of who is right</li> <li>24.Instead have open discussions - where the focus is on discovering what is right</li> <li>25.Avoid getting caught in the political, religious and gossip type of conversations</li> <li>26.Understand and respect the cultural differences of different people </li> <li>27.Become an inclusive leader who involves others and leverages the talents of other people for collective good</li> <li>28.Become a great observer of people by paying Attention to the People and the Situations Around You</li> <li>29.Understand your own Physical and Emotional Cues - then try guessing and then verifying your intuition</li> <li>30.Stop judging others - without understanding and knowing them better</li> <li>31.Try to identify their thoughts, feelings, and intentions - to develop Empathic accuracy</li> <li>32.Learn to interpret the non-verbal cues</li> <li>33.Take feedback from others - on how you come out - then create changes in your language, tone, voice as well as body language to - correct the impression</li> <li>34.Learn to present yourself better</li> <li>35.Develop courage to tell people - what is good for them</li> <li>36.Create circles of acquaintances and friends from different background and cultures </li> <li>37.Be fair and impartial</li> <li>38.Learn to welcome change and develop the ability to adopt to changes fast</li> <li>39.Practice and become master in Reading a group's emotional currents and power relationships</li> <li>40.Help other people become best in what they can be</li> <li>41.Learn the fine art of negotiation and convincing others</li> <li>42.Fine tune your skills and tactics for persuasion</li> <li>43.Become proficient in diffusing difficult situations and resolving conflicts</li> <li>44.Learn to work with others toward shared goals by building group synergy in pursuing for collective goals</li> <li>45.Practice self-control and Impulse Control</li> <li>46.Learn to manage your stress better</li> <li>47.Create a journey of self-awareness to recognize how your feelings and emotions impact upon your personal opinions, attitudes and judgments</li> <li>48.Learn to manage your negative emotions and outbursts effectively</li> <li>49.Create self-pride and self-respect</li> <li>50.Take responsibility for your actions and decisions as well as all the consequences</li> <li>51.Build collaborative and mutually rewarding relationships </li> <li>52.Learn to be Straightforward, direct and honest</li> <li>53.Stop trying to impress START expressing yourself better</li> <li>54.Become aware when your highly charged emotions are accompanied by physical sensations like your stomach, throat, or chest - or feelings that are strong enough to capture both your attention and that of others</li> <li>55.Become aware of how effectively you use nonverbal communication</li> <li>56.Learn to use humor to relieve stressful situations</li> <li>57.Use conflict to create better understanding </li> <li>58.Understand this formula - High Emotional awareness + High Social behavior awareness = Great Team Skills</li> <li>59.Learn and practice not to let others' emotions affect you</li> <li>60.Understand that when you are learning to master yours and others emotions - you would be wrong time to time - just course correct and start again</li> <li>61.Develop and sharpen your intuition</li> <li>62.Show curiosity. Ask people questions that show interest in their lives to build rapport</li> <li>63.Whenever you are unsure - ask clarifying questions</li> <li>64.Go to any meeting, discussion or conversation without any preconceived notions</li> <li>65.Identify Your Social Triggers -think about people and situations - what makes you depressed, what makes you excited, what fills you with positivity and love and what makes you anxious-fearful-stressed</li> <li>66.Identify those situations - where - you tend to put a mask </li> <li>67.Create a place and space where you can recharge yourself emotionally, mentally and spiritually</li> <li>68.Hang out with people who uplift you make you come alive - help you think big and can make you thrilled, excited and cheerful</li> <li>69.Avoid toxic and those people who make you feel suffocated, scared, depressed and fearful</li> <li>70.Learn to deal with difficult, toxic and arrogant people</li> <li>71.Learn to deal with rejections, frustrations, criticism and minor irritants</li> <li>72.Learn what to avoid and when to fight with all your might</li> <li>73.Stop forcing your whims on others </li> <li>74.Learn to stop absorbing other's negativities</li> <li>75.Learn to recognize - the narcissistic personality, the antisocial personality and people with deep insecurities - avoid them if you can</li> <li>76.Learn to recognize manipulation - and point it out or walk away</li> <li>77.Learn to deal these people - in case you can't avoid them</li> <li>78.Focus on Being Positive</li> <li>79.Never Use Drugs or Alcohol while Socializing</li> <li>80.Choose company which supports your values - and has mutual respect</li> <li>81.Know When Others Are Uncomfortable</li> <li>82.Stop trying to hog the limelight and monopolizing the conversation One-upping others</li> <li>83.Never correct people in front of others and stop forcing them on talking them on uncomfortable subjects</li> <li>84.Learn How to Be Funny - but maintain your grace and dignity</li> <li>85.Get rid of the need to Get Everyone's Approval and validation </li> <li>86.Practice to strengthen your sensory skills of sight, smell, sound and touch to become more aware of your environment</li> <li>87.Understand how you act and respond can help you when you encounter an unexpected situation - create effective ways and practice when things are normal</li> <li>88.Work on your triggers - find right anti-dotes</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">89.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">16 cues of poor social and toxic behaviors</b></li> <li>I.Unfriendly - Sullen temperament</li> <li>II.Snapping at others</li> <li>III.Ignoring others</li> <li>IV.Laughing at other's miseries, mistakes </li> <li>V.Enjoying other's misfortune</li> <li>VI.Exploiting weak and helpless</li> <li>VII.Ridiculing and Putting others down</li> <li>VIII.Use profanity, abusive and demeaning language</li> <li>IX.Racial and ethnic biased</li> <li>X.Interrupting others</li> <li>XI.Bragging and boasting</li> <li>XII.Breaking promises</li> <li>XIII.Playing victim</li> <li>XIV.Gossiping and backbiting</li> <li>XV.Dominating </li> <li>XVI.Blaming</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Few Interesting online social intelligence tests - you can take for free</b></p> <ul><li>1)Facial-Recognition Quiz - At the University of California Berkley, the Greater Good Web site offers a <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/ei_quiz" target="_blank" title="Facial Expression Quiz">20-question quiz that tests your ability to read facial expressions</a>. In addition to getting immediate feedback as to whether your answers are correct, you'll also learn the major muscle movements that typify different expressions.</li> <li>2)Eyes-Only Emotion Study - At a Web site hosted by Harvard University, you can take part in a <a href="http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/" target="_blank" title="Eyes-Only Emotion Test">10-minute study about recognizing emotions by reading eyes alone</a>. After completing the study, you'll find out your score and compare it against other participants'.</li> <li>3)Practical Emotional Intelligence Quiz -The Psychology Today Web site offers a quick online <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201311/test-your-practical-emotional-intelligence" target="_blank" title="Practical Emotional Intelligence Quiz">quiz that measures your practical emotional intelligence</a>. You'll explore how different situations affect your emotions and which reactions are adaptive and which are maladaptive.</li> <li>4)<a href="http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/">http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/mite/</a></li></ul><div>#socialintelligence, #socialintelligenceandleadership, #socialintelligenceandteamwork, #howtoenhanceyoursocialintelligence, #cuesofpoorsocialandtoxicbehaviors, #socialintelligenceandyourwellbeing, #howsocialintelligencecanmakeyourrelationshipwonderful, #boostingyoursocialintelligence, #improvingsocialintelligence, #increaseyoursocialintelligence<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span><br></div>