Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness
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Emotional intelligence
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Definition of emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness.........................................1Research and analyse emotional intelligence and theories, models of leadership.................2Strengths and weaknesses of theories and models.................................................................4Identification of challenges faced by leaders of the organisation and the relevance of thesechallenges to emotional intelligence......................................................................................5CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
INTRODUCTIONEmotional intelligence refers to the ability of a person to understand the human behaviour,emotions and thoughts of others as well as own emotion and thinking and regulating emotionsfor improving the emotional and intellectual growth of the person. This assignment present theterm leadership effectiveness and also critically analyse the emotional intelligence and theoriesof effective leadership. This study also identifies the challenges faced by the organisationalleaders and the relevance of emotional intelligence to those challenges.Definition of emotional intelligence and leadership effectivenessEmotional intelligence Emotional intelligence defines as the capability of a person to manage and control his orher emotions as well as ability to control the emotions of others effectively. Emotionalintelligence plays in important role in the effective leadership skill because it includes variouselements which are essential skills in the leadership such as self regulations, motivation, empathyand social skills(Mayer, Caruso and Salovey, 2016).The first component of the emotional intelligence is self awareness is aboutunderstanding yourself means evaluating own strength, weakness and values and their impactson others. The second component is is self management, it is the ability to control and redirectdisruptive impulses, reactions and moods. Motivation is the third component of the emotionalintelligence which motivate ourselves to take appropriate action and work efficiently towardsthe achievement of goals. Empathy is the feeling of understanding the emotions of the otherpeoples in the way in which person feel. The last component of EI is social skills which plays animportant role in building a relationship with others to move them in desired directions.Leadership effectiveness Leadership is defined as the art of motivating a group of a people to act towardsaccomplishing common goal. It is the process of directing, guiding and controlling the work ofteam members to meet the companies objective. Leadership effectiveness refers to the ability ofleader to inspire the team. Leaders needs to have heightened emotional intelligence formotivating others effectively. The main characteristics of the effective leadership is the goodcommunication skill because it is the important skill ability of to communicate effectively.Leadership effectiveness shows when leaders are passionate, visionary and high character. This1
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