Goleman's study suggests that leaders who have mastered Authoritative, Democratic, Affiliative and coaching styles have the best climate and have the highest performance.
Effective leaders have the flexibility to switch among these leadership style as needed.
This ability depends on a person's emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage our relationship and ourselves better. Although our intelligence (IQ) is largely genetic, Emotional intelligence can be learned (and improved) at any age.
Source :- Daniel Goleman, Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, Harvard Business Review March 2000.
Great start Rajeewa. after reading this article I did a little bit of a research and found the below related material in HBR.
ReplyDeletehttps://hbr.org/2013/05/can-you-really-improve-your-em
It shows that emotional intelligence could be cultivated/developed in to a certain extent, which is a good message for any management professional.
I went through the said article. If everybody can understand this concept and practice, every work place will be a much better place to work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Uditha