Emotional intelligence or EQ is the ability that can clarify the quality of a successful leader. Well, EQ simply means the ability that allows you to understand your own emotions and able to manage effective interaction with other people. This ability helps the leader to understand what their employees need or expect from them and also it will help in making people calm in stress and tension through communication.
Being a leader is never an easy task but learning from great examples such as Neil Mitchell, co-founder of Player’s Health, a risk services and insurance firm and he is actively supporting small leaders to achieve their goals. Over the years Neil Mitchell Players Health has been successful in applying his out-of-the-box thinking to client problems and developing unique solutions that create value for others.
Here is how to build an emotionally intelligent leadership:
Self-awareness:
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason,” said J. P. Morgan.
If you want to build emotional intelligence then gaining the ability of self-awareness is the most basic ability to start with. Self-awareness will help you to understand your own emotions, strengths, and weaknesses, and it gives you an understanding of how these values impact others. Well, to practice self-awareness, you need to learn some techniques that will allow you to manage your emotions and thoughts. Make sure to aside emotions while taking a decision and find ways to reduce your stress that can put a bad impact on your crucial decisions.
Self-management:
Self-management or self-discipline is the most important value that leaders must have to improve their leadership qualities. Self-management can help you to control your stress and emotions even in the worst situation and makes you stay positive all the time. Leaders with such skills are able to identify various opportunities in challenging situations and they will encourage their employees to work hard to develop such skills to improve their work performance.
Social awareness:
To develop social awareness skills, you will need to learn how to provide empathy and compassion to others. Having the ability of social awareness will help you build trust and provide effective communication to your people. Becoming empathetic can help you to understand the emotions and feelings of others and your effective communication can support others in their critical situations. When are able to understand others’ emotions then you will be able to relate to them easily and this will make others feel valued.
Effective communication:
Effective communication is a key skill of a successful leader and they are well aware of how to provide clear and transparent information to their employees so that they can understand the company’s goal along with the task they received. Effective communication can help to build a strong relationship with the team members and they will be able to share their issues and ideas with the leader more comfortably.