Emotional Intelligence : Being A Leader

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize one’s own and other people’s emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately. Emotional information can be used to guide thinking and behavior. There are three important key points to emotional intelligences which include; being able to have emotional awareness, having the capability to apply emotions to problem solving and thinking, and manage emotions with yourself and others, such as making someone happy when sad (Psychology Today, 2015).

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to be perceptively in tune with emotion to present a sound situational awareness. An emotionally intelligent leader is one who has good management of his emotions through knowing, understanding and responding to the emotions so that he or she exhibits social skills to manage relationships, has social awareness, self-management, empathy, motivation, and self-awareness. In essence, emotionally intelligent leaders understand and manage their emotions along with those of their followers so that they know what they are feeling and how those feelings affect others (Palestini, 2012).

Before I can start discussing the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership, I must explain why the three sources used in the report are credible. First, all three sources are credible because each article was found using The University of Texas at Austin’s library databases. In other words, none of the articles were found using Google or another unreliable search engine. Second, all of the sources are published in educational or business journals. Due to this fact, all three journals increase in credibility. Furthermore, each article uses references from other sources to further support any findings and conclusions. Due to these three reasons, I have concluded that all sources used for this paper are credible.

Emotional intelligence involves the ability to perceive accurately, appraise, and express emotion; the ability to access and/or generate feelings when they facilitate thought; the ability to

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize feelings and judge which feelings are appropriate for a given situation.

Emotional intelligence is the ability for an individual to control their own emotions, as well as the emotions of others when communicating. This is essential for leadership and leads to higher performance for all parties involved. A very good example of emotional intelligence being demonstrated is when we are at times of despair. In 2001 the World Trade Centers were struck by two commercial airlines. This was devastating not only for the surrounding area, but all of the United States, and the world. Major implications were to result from the terrorism that was displayed that day. This is where emotional intelligence is prevalent and former President George W. Bush, along with the administration and employees in the government needed to react in a strong, smart, and forceful

Emotional Intelligence helps us know our emotions and also helps us in controlling our own emotions as well as the emotions of people around us.

Emotional intelligence is the ability an individual has to one identify their own emotions as well as others, two understand and manage these emotions successfully in self and others, with being able to effectively manage yourself as well as your relationships.

Emotional Intelligence is “the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.”(2) This means that if someone were to have a high emotional intelligence Then they could do all of those things easily. This is the original definition from the esteemed Salovey and Mayer who wrote “one of the first major papers… on emotional intelligence in 1990.” In their paper this was what they said to define their newly created emotional intelligence “The ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings,

Emotional intelligence describes understanding individual and other persons' emotions and incorporating them to bring out the best out of a situation. Emotional intelligence affords one an opportunity to control likely outcome, by managing and working well with others as well as alone. One with emotional intelligence is capable of understanding their own emotions regulating them for the purpose of fruitful relation ADDIN EN.CITE Cavazotte2012466(Cavazotte et al., 2012)46646617Cavazotte, FlaviaMoreno, ValterHickmann, MateusEffects of leader intelligence,

Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor one’s own and others feelings and emotions to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and action. (Salovey & Mayer, 1990)

Emotional intelligence is a broad description of the ability to understand and control one’s own emotions. Also, emotional intelligence has ability to manage relationships through the recognition and understanding of other people's emotions (Emotional Intelligence ppt). Without emotional intelligence leaders can’t lead, or work in a team, leaders aren’t mindful of others’ feelings, leaders are too afraid to try anything new, allows negativity to get to them very easily, people give up easier, people become bitter, argumentative, and are motivated in the wrong places (13 signs you have of low El). Likewise, my dad has an employee that works under him and he was checking her paper, she then became extremely offended and started to cry, even though my dad told her in a very polite way what she needed to correct. The next day he confronted her and they talked out how next time there won’t be tears and that he was only trying to help her improve her paper. She didn’t have to take his advice if she didn’t want to. My dad’s employee then trusted him from there on out because of his high emotional intelligence and how he solved the

“Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage our emotions and those around us, therefore, this quality gives individuals a variety of skills, such as the ability to manage relationships, navigate social networks, influence and inspire others. Every individual possesses different level, but in order for individuals to become effective leaders, they will need a high level of emotional intelligence. In today’s workplace, it has become a highly important

Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been defined as the focus on such competencies as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management (Goleman, 2006, p. 16). It is the ability of the leader to manage emotion both in

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to to be aware of your emotions, manipulate them from negative to positive and analyze them in yourself and other people, so you know when you are stressed, being negative and how to recognize this in other people.