In the book Primal Leadership is reported that emotional intelligence has four aspects:

• Self-awareness: the ability to comprehend our own’s emotions, our limits, values and goals.
• Self-regulation: the ability to handle emotions in order to reach goals.
• Social awareness: the ability to comprehend other’s people emotions and needs.
• Social skill: the ability to motivate others to reach a common goal.

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• Primal Leadership | 2020 | Daniel Goleman

In the book Primal Leadership and in various other reasearches are reported that emotions impact on performances like for example job performances.

In particular negative emotions negatively impact on job performances. Negative emotions reduce focus in particular when negative emotions lead to rumination. Reduced focus decreases job performances.

Considering that:

• To successfully reach goals in a working context, it is necessary to have high performances.
• Negative emotions lead to reduced performances.
• The rule of a leader is to reach goals.

Then the ability to acknowledge emotions and handle them is an important skill for a leader.

In the book Primal Leadership is reported that it is important to understand the needs of others people to have a successful change.

Every people have needs. These needs define the habits of the people inside a group. These habits define the behaviour of the people and therefore the group.

To change it is necessary to change the behaviour of the group. Therefore it is necessary to understand the needs of the people involved to have a successful change.

Daniel Goleman, in his book Primal Leadership, and the course Inspiring and Motivating individuals indicate some abilities to develop to become a great leader.

These abilities are:

• Develop emotional intelligence. However there are some criticisms related to the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership due to measurement issues and an overemphasis on emotions.
• Learn first to know yourself and your own emotions. Learn to handle them and then learn to acknowledge the others’ emotions.
• Search feedback from others’ people and then improve.
• Being able to observe the gap between the reality and the vision of an organisation and then defining a strategy to reduce this gap.
• Learn to create a vision
• Communicate effectively the vision to realise.
• Learn to effectively define goals.
• Motivate people
• Learn to give feedbacks, both negative and positive.
• Learn to convince others to act, rather than doing everything alone.
• Learn to understand what a person can and can’t do and treat that person for what they can do.
• Learn to grow people skills.

My current conclusions

• I think that:
  • emotional intelligence is a necessary skill but it is not sufficient to become a great leader. See also The importance of emotions on performances.
  • Other necessary characteristics are:
    • Rationality
    • Competence
    • Communication skills
    • Ability to communicate a vision of what it has to be done
    • Sharing the same core values of the people to lead
    • Ability to solve problems and make decisions particularly in difficult contexts
    • Ability to understand people needs

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• How to create a vision

Related Topics:

• Leadership
• Leadership - Definitions
• The importance of emotions on performances

References

• Primal Leadership | 2020 | Daniel Goleman
• Inspiring and Motivating individuals | 2019 | University of Michigan by Coursera
• The Fifth Discipline | 2019 | Peter Senge
• Start with Why | 2019 | Simon Sinek
• Julio Velasco - LEADERSHIP: i 5 pilastri | Julio Velasco
• il Decalogo del Leader | Julio Velasco
• Saper criticare | Julio Velasco

Index

• Leadership - Definitions
• The importance of emotions on performances
• The dimensions of emotional intelligence
• The different leadership styles
• How to become a leader
• How to create a vision
• Manage errors and problems
• How to lead people that do not have a common goal
• What are the main principles about leadership

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• Leadership: the ability to lead, influence or guide other people to reach a goal.
• Emotional Intelligence: the ability to perceive, understand, manage and handle one’s own and others’ emotions and use them to achieve goals.
• Vision: a statement or a description of an ideal future.

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