The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Success

Abstract

In its current highly dynamic and complex organization environment, Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been found as helpful aspect in successful leadership. It includes the skills of identifying, comprehending and curing oneself as well as the emotions of the other people. The major part of this paper is concerned with how EI contributes to successful leadership through case studies of the main variables of this topic which involve self-regulation, self-awareness, empathy, motivation and social skills etc and their helpfulness in the process of successful leadership. The paper explains the connection between EI on the one hand and the outcomes of leadership like, decision making process, solving conflict situations, group work and employees reaction to lead on the other hand. The consideration of the available literature takes over the fact that with the emotionally intelligent leaders, one will have a steelier chance of solving challenges in the new future and galvanizing followers along and establishment of a good organizational culture. The paper also talks of the development of the EI and the implications it has to the leadership development exercises. Based on this discussion, the paper elevated role of EI in leading success in any business environments.