Role of emotional intelligence in business |
Many organizations are recognizing the important role of emotional intelligence in business. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand ones emotions and inspire, influence and understand other peoples emotions.
The more self aware you are the more you control you actions and is no different in business. In business you have to deal with social teams, friends, high profile people, leaders, a boss and more. The best way to be effective in taking quick and effective decisions is to use our emotional intelligence.
We are born with EI but its not a talent that just a few have, you can develop it and learn it, that is great news. As we know, it has been proven that most successful people in business are not much different than anybody else, they dont have better IQs or more talents, they just have a very sharp emotional intelligence that help them deal with people every day and take very good decisions.
The great news if you have a business, is that you can learn emotional intelligence or you can give a course to your team or employees. One of the persons who recently made popular the term emotional intelligence is Daniel Goleman he developed his own model, you can find his books and study them.
Now, how can we use emotional intelligence in business.
In business we have to deal with pressure and conflicts constantly, if we lack of self awareness we are going to get angry, react and take improper decisions, but if we can deal with pressure and look inside us and understand the different opinions that your team is sharing and what are their emotions, you will control the flow and take the right decisions without falling in to conflict.
For example, sometimes very little things will cause team conflicts that will delay a project because no one can agree. What happens is that somebody might disagree with you, if can explain you reasons correctly you will be ok, but if you completely deny his opinion or just shut him up, he will most likely feel hurt of his proud and start a big discussion on the different opinions.
However if you explain your decision and you try to understand him and explain why you think his opinion is not completely accurate or how you can take some of his points and integrate them in the project, you will have more success and deal with differences very quickly, thus getting projects done more quickly and effectively.
Quick Tip #1
We can improve our Emotional Intelligence EQ by doing some daily exercises |
Quick Tip #2
Emotional Intelligence is vital for the entrepreneur that wants to be successful and needs to deal with a lot of people |
Quick Tip #3
Its not enough to have a high IQ now more than ever we need to develop our Emotional Intelligence to make better business decision and have more hppier personal relationships |
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