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Did you know that emotional intelligence is one of the most sought after inter-personal skills in the workplace?
In fact, 71% of employers value emotional intelligence more than technical skills. Academic literature also supports this conclusion. Published studies suggest that high levels of emotional intelligence can be beneficial to leaders in several ways, including communication, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
Conversely, low emotional intelligence can negatively impact leaders, their teams, and overall their own and their organisation’s performance. Teams with less-well-defined emotional intelligence environments are associated with increased task and relationship conflict and conflict intensity.
Not only that but what one researcher termed “more emotionally contaminated” workers have higher levels of burnout, and the higher the burnout, the lower the commitment to the group.
Evidently, the consequences of low emotional intelligence are far-reaching, negatively impacting performance, retention, innovation and team dynamics.
The foundations of emotional intelligence
But very few people realise that our emotional intelligence is grounded in the control of our physiology and our energy levels (see model below).
Emotions are our energy in motion – hence the name – e-motion. They are patterns of physiological data, sweaty palms, tense shoulders, swirling stomach, dry throat. These are all the physiological manifestations of the emotion ‘anxiety’.
Understanding that our emotions are affected by our physiology is transformative and enables us to start our journey to greater emotional control and higher levels of emotional intelligence.
Assessing your emotional intelligence
Given this crucial connection between our physiology and our emotions, any worthwhile assessment of emotional intelligence must also include physiological insights as well as emotional insights. The Complete Emotional Intelligence assessment does exactly that.
It gives leaders a clearer understanding of how their energy affects their emotions, their level of emotional intelligence and, as a result, offers valuable insights into leadership effectiveness.
The development of greater Emotional Intelligence (EI) has the potential to fix many of the most common challenges facing those on the c-suite:
- Trust and innovation. EI is fundamental to building deeper trust that can enable greater innovation and the effectiveness strategy/strategic implementation across the team.
- Results. The pressure for organisational results is constant and at the forefront of leaders’ minds is the need to create an impact and make a change. An emotionally intelligent leader can have a significant positive impact on results and their own legacy.
- Conflict. For many leaders, the ‘day job’ can often feel like being a referee in a boxing match. Trying to navigate internal battles and dominant personalities in the board room takes highly developed emotional intelligence.
A simple, and confidential Complete Emotional Intelligence Assessment could be the insight you need to make the biggest impact on your success as a leader. Emotional intelligence is not just about understanding and managing our own emotions, it has huge power to affect others too. It’s why we believe it is such a fundamental part of leadership. Emotionally competent leaders perform better and are more successful.
Read more about the Complete Emotional Intelligence Assessment.
