What This Means:
This is the ability to bring out the best in others. When you possess the ability to effectively manage your relationships with others, you can be very persuasive. This equips you to get others to buy into a new idea or change. Without this, any periods of transition will be difficult to get through.
This also means you are better at managing conflict than most people. Confrontation is never easy but you know how to navigate disagreements to get them resolved. This alone makes you a more capable leader than many CEOs, who note conflict mediation as one of their top challenges.
Additionally, you have an eye to helping to develop others. You can see what they need to work on to reach their goals and you help point them in the right direction. This is also related to how you lean towards collaboration in a group setting. You know what amazing results a team can accomplish once it hits a high enough level synergy.
How Can This Help You?
Just because you have a knack for teaching, conflicts or persuasion doesn’t mean that you know everything about it. But if you continue to expand your skillset in these three areas, this emotional intelligence will make you extremely valuable in a work setting. You will always need to negotiate and put out fires regardless if your focus is on growing your company or climbing up the ranks. If you hone your talent at this while other leaders are scrambling to learn how to, you’ll hit your goals that much sooner.
What About The Other Kinds of Emotional Intelligence?
Self Regulation:
This is the ability to step out of a situation and assess your reaction to it. People who develop this still have negative feelings but they don’t act upon them. Instead they question them and probe the origins of such feelings. Eventually this becomes a habit that allows them to be comfortable with ambiguity and change.
Because they have become so adept in their reactions to other situations, they develop strong resilience and flexibility to whatever life throws at them. This is how some people turn negative events into motivation.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Without this, any leader or entrepreneur will reach a ceiling they can’t break past. The beauty of empathy is that it can also be applied from a sales perspective. Without getting out of your own head and into the heads of your customers, you won’t sell. Aside from that, regardless of whether you scale your business or grow your career, empathy is a core foundation of leadership skills. Without it, few would willingly follow you.
Empathy:
This is the ability to expand one’s perspective to include the thought patterns and feelings of others. You can never really put yourself completely into the shoes of another but having empathy is the closest you can get. This is the understanding that you think the way you do because of how you grew up and you apply that to others as well. Even when you can’t understand someone else’s opinion or feelings, you know that is because you haven’t lived their past. By respecting and accepting that about themselves, you give others the space to be themselves.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Without this, any leader or entrepreneur will reach a ceiling they can’t break past. The beauty of empathy is that it can also be applied from a sales perspective. Without getting out of your own head and into the heads of your customers, you won’t sell. Aside from that, regardless of whether you scale your business or grow your career, empathy is a core foundation of leadership skills. Without it, few would willingly follow you.
Self Awareness:
This is the ability to truly understand yourself. People with this know what their strengths and weaknesses are. They don’t lie to themselves because they are confident in being themselves. They are still subject to human bias but they do their best to use different perspectives to be objectives. They also understand what values drive them.
Why You Might Want To Develop This:
Without a clear understanding of yourself, you might be taking a much harder path than you have to. In building a business, you often have to wear multiple hats. But if you’re weaker at some and stronger in others, how much more efficient would you be if you could outsource your weaknesses and focus on your strengths? Without understanding that, you could be spinning your wheels for awhile. You are also guaranteed to run into big decisions. Having a incorrigible value system will make sure you don’t regret those decisions.
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