The Emotionally Intelligent Leader And The Decision-Making Process

The Emotionally Intelligent Leader and the Decision-Making ProcessEmotional intelligence is the collection of abilities that are used to recognize, acknowledge, control as well as assess self and others’ emotions. It is important for leaders to be emotionally intelligent.The reason behind this is that emotional intelligence help leaders lead a more efficient workplace. They do this by sharing their vision and strategies with their followers putting them in same line. Effective communication is brought about by motivation which exists in emotionally intelligent leaders. Intelligent leaders recognize their strengths and weaknesses. Self-awareness makes these leaders to focus on strengths they have at the same time employing people who perform better in areas where the leaders do not astute (Holian, 2006). Through emotional intelligence, leaders can increase their decision making effectiveness.Decisions especially those made while solving a risk problem, in most cases are guided by emotions which include anxiety. In this case, emotionally intelligent leaders are in a position to handle this challenge due to the fact that they are aware of unnecessary source of their emotions. In addition, emotional leaders assist others on how to reduce the effect of incidental anxiety when dealing with critical problems through pointing out the actual