What makes a leader?By Daniel Goleman

Prepared And Presented By : Luqman Shah

An overview

• What is a Leader?

• What makes a leader?

• Leader are born or made?

• Vedio

Definition of leader

• A person that holds a dominant or superior position within its field, and is able to exercise a high degree of control or influence over others.

What makes a leader?• IQ and technical skills are important but the

most important thing for a leader is emotional intelligence.

• Effective leaders have one thing in common that is a high degree of emotional intelligence.

• higher the rank of a person in a company the higher emotional intelligence he needs instead of technical skills

Emotional intelligenceEmotional intelligence composed of five

components

• Self-awareness• Self-regulation• Motivation• Empathy• Social skill Relationship with others

Self management skills

Components of emotional intelligence

It means deep understanding of ones emotion, strength, weaknesses, needs and drives.

It helps a person to understand his values and goals, where to place himself and why.

Self aware people are recognized by there self-confidence.

These people accept challenges that they can handle on the basis of there own strengths.

1)Self-Awareness

Components of emotional intelligence

Emotions are driven by biological impulses. We can’t do away with them but we can manage them

People who have mastered there emotions are able to role with the changes, they don’t panic

No one wants to be known as a hothead when the boss is known for his calm approach

Fewer bad moods at the top mean fewer throughout the organization

2)Self-regulation

Components of emotional intelligence

If there is one trait that all effective leaders have, it is motivation

The key word here to achieve

Most of the people are motivated by external factors such as big salary, status, title etc

But the leaders are motivated by deeply embedded desire to achieve for the sake of achievement

3)Motivation

Components of emotional intelligence

For a leader empathy does not mean to please every body that would be nightmare

It means considering employees feelings along with other factors in the process of making intelligence decision

Empathy is important today for three reasons The increasing use of teams The rapid pace of globalizationThe growing need to retain talent

4)Empathy

Components of emotional intelligence

Social skill means friendliness with people for a purpose to move them in the direction you desire

Social skilled people may at time appear not to be working while at work and seems busy in building relations widely because they may need help some day from people they are just getting to know today.

Social skill is the most important because leader’s task is to get work done through other people that is difficult if he is unable to communicate properly.

Social skill allows leader to put their emotional intelligence to work

5) Social skill

Can emotional intelligence be learned?

• For ages people have debated if leaders are born or made, so too goes the debate about emotional intelligence.

• Are people born with certain level of emotional intelligence or do they acquire it, the answer is both

Can emotional intelligence be learned?

• Scientific inquiry strongly suggests that there is a genetic component to emotional intelligence

• Research and practice clearly indicates that nurture play a role so emotional intelligence can be learned as well.

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