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Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
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Date 2018
Learning Emotional Intelligence 2
Introduction
Today’s leaders are highly concerned about their ability to possess emotional
overcome various challenges in the places of work. Through the ability to measure emotional
intelligence, leaders can overcome the challenges they face in managing their teams. However, it
is challenging for many leaders to possess emotional intelligence. Leaders are always faced with
talent wars as a result of the need to rise to the top management of a firm, and their ability to
possess the skills required for emotional intelligence can act as an advantage for gaining a
competitive age. This short paper highlights the importance of emotional intelligence and how it
can be learned.
The workforce of today is highly opposed to autocratic leadership where a leader would
command the subjects and make all decisions alone. Leaders thus have to know how to relate
with the employees in a manner that the supports their individual and organizations objectives.
This calls for emotional intelligence (Barron and Hurley, 2018). The employees in the current
work places also have more choices and options, and to be valued for them to continue staying in
the organization. All these calls for emotional intelligence that would help the leaders relate well
with their employees and at the same time ensure roles are accomplished as expected. Siegling,
Nielsen, and Petrides (2014) underlines that emotional intelligence help leaders to promote,
autonomy and freedom; consultation and involvement; opportunity for growth; and inclusion as
well as team spirit, however, it is difficult to find a single leader with the ability of meeting all
Serrat (2017) carried out a study on emotional intelligence with the aim of determining
how interaction with children influences their emotional intelligence, and whether there is a
possibility of teaching the children emotional intelligence. Kahn concluded that the emotional
intelligence can be taught. She detected that the way one interacts with others influence their
ability of having emotional intelligence. Children who are brought up in regions or families
where people possess some level of emotional intelligence always grow up with high levels of
emotional intelligence while those who are brought up in families or regions where emotions are
rarely shown grow up with little levels of emotional intelligence (Serrat, 2017, p. 339). The
conclusion made by Kahn is supported by Caruso, Fleming, and Spector (2014) who revealed
that character can be modeled in children when they are still developing. Thus leaders can learn
Conclusion
This paper has shown that emotional intelligence is important in the managing the current
employees. Emotional intelligence helps leaders to promote to value employees and understand
their emotions. It is possible to learn emotional intelligence, though this implies that emotional
intelligence is influenced by the environment where an individual was brought up. Managers
who get into management positions should understand the significance of emotional intelligence
and try to implement it for to successful manage a workforce that is highly demanding.
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References
Barron, D. and Hurley, J., 2018. Emotional intelligence and leadership. In Emotional Intelligence
Caruso, D.R., Fleming, K. and Spector, E.D., 2014. Emotional intelligence and leadership.
Siegling, A.B., Nielsen, C. and Petrides, K.V., 2014. Trait emotional intelligence and leadership
68.