Insure Your Business Acumen With Emotional Intelligence Leadership Development

By Scott Gibson


Newer findings have enabled an easier job in determining what makes the best of business skills. One of the newest, most touted concepts is emotional intelligence leadership development. It is a new concept, and has even more recently become applied to business. Two professors first coined the phrase as applied to business in 1990, in a research paper. The scientific explanation is that it is the ability to understand emotions, including yours and others. It includes understanding how it involves relationships, and being able to manage all emotions, both yours and others. It is an essential ingredient in business leadership.

The best training in the world, without this quality, even in a person with an incisive mind and plenty of ideas, won't mean the person will make a great leader. It requires a firm ability to exercise all the components of emotional intelligence to make a good leader. The trait is defined thoroughly in the paper by Mayer. It is composed of five components. These are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Based on their research, two psychology professors, John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey, first identified the components.

One component, self awareness, means one is confident in the view of themselves. They are creative, with stronger decision-making, communication, and relationships. There is very little lying, cheating and stealing. One gets more promotions, and their leadership skills are stronger, making their ability to get better employees and build better companies as a result.

Another component is self-regulation. This is the ability to control negative thoughts and impulses. It simply means being able to remain in control. It involves knowing your emotions, and those of others as well. It means being to calm oneself, and to manage relationships in a calm manner. You must further be able to motivate yourself, and recognize opportunities for self and others, and being able to be in charge at times when it is needed.

Motivating is another component. It helps the leader encourage the subordinate, as well themselves, to follow plans in their lives. It pushes an individual to work hard at achieving plans. However, there is no specific plan for motivating. As a leader, one should be aware of subordinates needs. Knowing different needs of subordinates will certainly make the decision-making process easier.

Empathy, another component, involves recognizing others' emotions, understanding things from their perspective. The leader must think beyond themselves, and recognize that people are probably not being unreasonable, but are merely responding to things based on their own perspective. The leader must think of things in that light.

Being able to use excellent communication skills with everyone is the component of social skills. It also involves having good conflict resolution skills, both for self and others. Those with this skill are able to give appropriate praise to others and to get them to accept a new project.

To be an effective leader, one must validate the other's perspective, examine their own attitude, listen to the other person in entirety, and ask what the other person would do, not try to figure it out on your own. The leader who recognizes another person for something that means nothing to them is not showing empathy. They need to understand what means a lot to that person and recognize them for that trait.




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