Emotional Intelligence-A Boon for Leaders

In today's competitive business climate, organizations need leaders with more than technical and intellectual competence to maintain a competitive advantage. Successful leaders combine strong interpersonal skills with technical knowledge to improve their potential and performance. The core competencies of EI provide the foundation to further develop your intra/interpersonal skills which are essentially needed for an effective leader. A highly emotional intelligent leader is an asset for the organization who performs well and is widely accepted by the people working in the organization.

In this research paper relationship between emotional intelligent and leadership is studied through Exploratory research where case studies are used as the research technique. This research paper describes various terms related to emotional intelligence and leadership such as self awareness, self management, empathy and social skills. Its objectives are to study the concept of emotional intelligence and its role in leadership. Daniel Goleman's EI model is taken as a base for studying the emotional intelligence concept. Three cases are studied and analysed based on the parameters mentioned in the Daniel Goleman's model.Study reveals that for being a successful leader, leaders needs to practice emotional intelligence and they need to keep on practicing it for further improvement.