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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Leaders in business looking to improve their organisation’s performance can do so by improving their emotional intelligence: that is, their skill at identifying, understanding and influencing emotion.
There is a direct link between the way people feel and the way they perform at work. This is one of the most robust and consistent findings in organisational research. In high performing organisations people feel significantly more engaged, cared for, valued, proud, and motivated than those in low performing organisations. Conversely, in low performing organisations people feel significantly more fearful, stressed, disempowered and uncertain.
Leadership is fundamentally about facilitating performance. Research has proven that a leader’s emotional intelligence is key to their capacity to facilitate emotions in others that drive high performance and employee engagement. This is more than just a moral compass; it’s also a recipe for success. Organisations with emotionally intelligent leaders achieve a critical lever of sustainable competitive advantage: a high performance culture and customer loyalty.
Emotionally intelligent leadership competencies reflect what leaders do with their emotional intelligence in the leadership of people. The Genos model of emotionally intelligent leadership competencies is shown below.
For instance, Inspiring Performance is important in leadership because:
- Leadership is fundamentally about facilitating the performance of others,
- Managing performance with rules and key performance indicators usually produces an ‘expected’, result, rather than an ‘unexpected’ high performance result, and
- People often learn and develop more with this type of leadership style resulting in continuous enhancements to performance year-on-year.
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership ASSESSMENT
EI Leadership Self Report | 180° EI Leadership Feedback Report | 360° EI Leadership Feedback Report |
This assessment is designed for emerging or front-line leaders. Perfect for use in development workshops, conferences and other group development mediums. | This assessment is designed for front-line to supervisor development. Perfect for use in development workshops, conferences and other group development mediums. | This assessment is designed for middle to senior leadership development. Customisable rater categories are used to suit the vernacular your people are familiar with. |
Contains: Self-Assessment Results | Contains: Feedback from Direct Reports Optional Self-Assessment | Contains: Self-Assessment Results and Feedback from Multiple Rater Levels |
Key Features of the Assessment
How to use the Genos EI Assessments?
A Genos EI Certified Practitioner is required to run a Genos EI Assessment and to debrief the results of the reports with participants. Genos provides an EI Certification Program to allow learning and organisational development professionals, human resource consultants or managers, executive coaches, and organisational psychologists to administer Genos EI Assessments within their own or for client organisations.