Today’s forward-looking organizations and agencies actively strive to determine what employee characteristics are of greatest value in enhancing organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Empirical research has shown that emotional intelligence is important to the performance of workers. In other words, one’s knowledge, skills, and overall intelligence must be augmented by the ability to perceive, understand, and regulate emotions. Few graduate professional schools are capitalizing on the research addressing emotional intelligence as a means to develop students’ intrapersonal and interpersonal capabilities.This study explored the potential for enhancing the emotional capabilities of students in a traditional graduate classroom. Findings suggest that emotional intelligence can be improved and that a strong relationship exists between emotional intelligence and academic performance.
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