What is Leadership
"Leadership: Leadership is how you interact with everyone, including yourself. Leaders are quite visible within small and large businesses. We tend to think of them as business owners and CEO's and managers at various levels. Traditionally, leadership also extends into politics and other global affairs. However, parents, therapists and health care providers, solopreneurs, sports coaches, consultants, mentors, partners in relationship, teachers, authors, and others who interact with people on a regular basis are all leaders. EVERYONE is a leader either by choice or default.
| If you don't think of yourself as a leader, then you are limited in your thinking. Leading is the way we help move people, including ourselves, into action. The question is not whether or not we are leaders, but how well we lead." |
What is a Leader
The American Heritage College Dictionary gives these definitions:
Manager - someone who handles, controls or directs (a business or enterprise) or (resources and expenditures)
Leader - someone who leads or guides, is in charge or in command of others, has influence or power.
Unfortunately for most businesses the autocratic, dictatorial, controlling style of management that many of us experience oftentimes leads to high employee turnover or to a disengaged and marginally productive workforce
What is Today's Ideal Leader
Today’s leader must be participatory and flexible, yet also powerful to inspire others. Wallace Core Coaching utilizes a process that develops a personally effective style of leadership which positively influences and changes not only yourself, but also those with whom you work and interact, as well as your organization as a whole.
What Type of Leader do You want to be
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Research studies suggest that Emotional Intelligence makes a difference in a leader's workplace effectiveness, including:
- inter and intra personal effectiveness
- influencing and persuading stakeholders
- leadership flexibility, and
- job satisfaction
Emotions Matter in Your Workplace
Emotions affect workplace decisions and strategies every day. For example:
- deciding not to hire someone because 'something just didn’t feel right'?
- not asking one’s boss for more resources when the boss is having ‘a bad day’?
- deciding to take a different approach when dealing with a disgruntled customer?
- helping motivate an under-performing colleague to succeed?
Emotions Influence Your Behaviors at Work
The emotions people experience at work also influence the behaviors they display to others, contributing to:
- tone of voice
- body language, and
- facial expressions.
Emotional Intelligence Makes a Difference in the Workplace
Research studies suggest that Emotional Intelligence makes a measurable difference in the workplace, including:
- productivity and performance
- interpersonal effectiveness
- leadership capability
- sales performance
- teamwork
- customer service, and
- job satisfaction.
Enhancing your Emotional Intelligence
Techniques for enhancing people’s Emotional Intelligence are simple and effective. For example:
- improve how one deals with their own and others’ emotions
- learn how to demonstrate more emotionally intelligent behaviors
- make more informed and balanced decisions, and
- improve workplace productivity and performance.
To learn more about how the skills of emotional intelligence can be utilized to enhance leadership and improve overall performance in your workplace go to Emotional Intelligence.
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