Using Emotional Intelligence

You must use emotional intelligence to get the best out of people. To get someone's best, you must motivate them. Motivation comes in many forms, such as recognition, responsibility and achievement. Knowing how to motivate effectively requires you to use emotional intelligence, an ability to manage yourself and relationships through self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skill. Through self-awareness, you can accurately evaluate your own strengths and limitations and understand your own emotions. Effective self-management allows you the ability to manage yourself and your responsibilities so that you are trusted by others. Social awareness enables you to understand others perspectives and meet the needs of an organization’s constituents. Finally, social skill empowers you to influence and develop others in alignment with the vision of the organization. You can use emotional intelligence to determine which leadership styles will work to achieve an organization’s goals and best motivate your employees. One example - Your report at work does great work, never complains, and is always reliable. Using emotional intelligence, a manager may know what motivates this worker - is it desire for more money, desire for public recognition, is it a mere thank you? Knowing those that work with you and finding the right motivation will continue to keep your organization progressing!