Emotional intelligence in leadership

Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to monitors one’s own and others people’s emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotion information to guide thinking behavior. It is the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to release or relive stress, effective communication, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflicts. It impacts our many different aspect of life like the way we behave and interact with others.

Components of Emotional intelligence

 

Self-awareness-It about knows yourself and understand your mood and motivations and their effect to others. You have to able to monitor you own emotions in order to achieve this state. If you are in leadership position you should know your strength and weakness and behave with humility.

Self-regulation-as a leader you must regulate yourself and you will rarely attack others verbally, make rushed decisions or emotional decisions and you must stay in control. The leaders must express him appropriately and shows emotional maturity.

 Motivation-The leader must be willing to learn and improvement versus a pursuit of wealth and status. Leaders that are motivated work consistently towards their goals and have high standards for quality of

their work.

Empathy-For leaders is critical for them to have empathy to manage a successful team or organization. Normally leaders with empathy will have the ability to put themselves in someone situation. Development is one of their tasks to their team and challenge who are acting unfairly and give constructive feedback and listen to those who need help. Leaders cannot understand others until they understand themselves.

Social skills- The leaders is more concern of establishing common ground, manage relationship and builds networks. They are ready to hear good and bad news and their expert at getting their team to support them, and excited with a new project or mission.