IMPROVING YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Shabnam Saxena; Amita Girdhar

Shabnam Saxena Senior Lecturer, Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar - 125001
Amita Girdhar Research Scholar, Haryana School of Business, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar - 125001

Keywords: LEADERSHIP SKILLS, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Abstract

Leaders create the context within which we work. Leaders can create a productive, happy, healthy context where employees feel valued, inspired, motivated, and where they feel they can produce their best work. Likewise, leaders can create the opposite environment where employees feel dread as they think about entering the work environment and they would leave the organization at the first opportunity. Given the
importance of leaders and leadership on the effectiveness and on the productivity of an organization leaders must, therefore, understand how to inspire and ignite passion to make employees happy and keep employees healthy so that they stay and contribute to their full potential for their whole careers. This paper is an attempt to highlight the importance of emotional intelligence in improving the leadership skills.