Social competence is made up of your social awareness and relationship management skills; social competence is your ability to understand other people’s moods, behaviors, and motives in order to respond effectively and improve the quality of your relationships. Social-Awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on. Relationship-Management is your ability to parlay the awareness of both your own and others’ emotions into successful management of interpersonal relationships.