EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND LEADERSHIP

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Executive Summary

Emotional understanding has become a well liked theme in the business press in latest years. Although people have not used the term "emotional intelligence", the Centre for Creative Leadership has helped many leaders understand and develop emotional intelligence competencies for over thirty years. One way that people have successfully helped more managers to expand their intellectual knowledge and emotional intelligence is through benchmarks. This study compares scores on Benchmarks to self-reported emotional intelligence, measured by the Baron EQ-I. People learned that the key leadership skills and perspectives related to aspects of emotional intelligence and lack of emotional intelligence is related to career derailment. Table of Content

Introduction2

Discussion2

What is emotional intelligence?4

Emotional intelligence related to with leadership effectiveness?7

Change management7

Conclusions12

References12

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Introduction

Leaders have a lot of myths associated with them. Leadership in itself is redefined every now and then. There have been many debates about different leadership styles and a lot of features that the leader should or should not possess. There is, however, an important ingredient missing and hidden in the personality of a leader. This particular component was not discussed or talked significantly. Let's see what it is and how much that is important in determining the overall personality of a leader. This particular feature is known as emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence in simple words is the ability to manipulate emotions in the key role of management leadership roles. The problems come in the mass businesses and address the needs of each human intervention. However, human intervention is also need to involve the emotions. Some management gurus argue that emotional intelligence is much more important than his old style of traditional leadership skills.

Discussion

Iron-fisted control of the issues was the popular slogan of the leaders of the past. However, the leaders of the new era not advocate this approach in a number of reasons. First, the result of emotional heads high returns for the business. The second most important thing is the inability of the leaders closer to their subordinates. This not only hinders subordinates to communicate clearly with superiors, there are other serious consequences. The implication is that subordinates listen to bossy leaders with a pinch of salt and a prejudice in the mind.

They may be claiming to obey their leaders, but his commitment from within is dubious at best. In the past, this type of leadership has not only resulted in heavy losses for organizations, but also has masked the real problems lying between hierarchical levels. Management accepts as true that all is well and there is no need to concern about anything. This also translates into unsatisfied customers, and seriously limits the productivity of the organization. When leaders are effectively managing their EQ (emotional intelligence), the benefits to them, their people and their organization can be enormous. When they are not, the charges over these identical three grades are often significant (Goleman, 1998, 18).

EQ is possibly the most critical component that differentiates great authority from mean ...