Question

Name and explain at least three ways that emotional intelligence can increase leader effectiveness.

Answer 1

Here is how emotional intelligence can increase leader effectiveness:

• It allows the leader to become more collaborative and facilitates better teamwork. It helps to build communication, trust and people value each other opinion. Leaders are able to take feedback and show a more positive and open-minded approach.
• It helps the leader to bring change management into the organisation. Emotional intelligence gives the tools and understands that helps to deal with changes and challenges. Emotional intelligence leaders are more positive and are able to inspire the team to accept a certain change as it will lead us closer to the vision.
• It helps the leader to develop patience and take a tough conversation with a balanced approach. Many stakeholders like customers can have lot of complaints and hence this skills helps top address them in a positive and calm manner.
• It builds people skills and helps build team unity and trust. the rapport of the leader becomes very positive. It helps to understand the feeling of others and helps to be more empathetic as a leader.

It helps to become a transformation leader. The leaders are able to understand people better, they get to know how they work, how to influence and inspire them and how to take a team together to achieve greater results.

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