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How does a lack of emotional intelligence and self-awareness hurt your leadership?

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As a leader, you need to understand yourself and others to communicate effectively, motivate your team, and handle conflicts. However, if you lack emotional intelligence and self-awareness, you may be hurting your leadership potential and performance. In this article, you will learn how these two skills are related, why they matter for leaders, and how to improve them.

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1 What is emotional intelligence and self-awareness?

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own and others' emotions. Self-awareness is a key component of EI, as it involves being aware of your strengths, weaknesses, values, emotions, and triggers. Self-awareness helps you to align your actions with your goals, adjust your behavior to different situations, and accept feedback and criticism.

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Sacha C.

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Emotional intelligence isn't understanding your own emotions; it's also about how emotional state can ripple through a team. If a leader isn’t aware of the energy they project, it can inadvertently set the tone for the entire team.

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Mindfulness is a key aspect of awareness, both of yourself and of others. Very often, leaders are so preoccupied that they find themselves acting in ways that are inconsistent with their values or those of the organisation. Mindfulness practice helps leaders to take a few crucial seconds when it matters to think of how to act in line with those values.

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2 How does EI and self-awareness affect your leadership?

Research shows that leaders with high emotional intelligence and self-awareness are more likely to build trust and rapport with their followers, peers, and superiors, inspire and influence others to achieve a common vision, adapt to changing circumstances and challenges, foster a positive and productive work environment, resolve conflicts and prevent escalation, and enhance their own and others' well-being and performance. These qualities have a significant impact on your leadership style, effectiveness, and outcomes.

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Sacha C.

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While leadership requires decision-making and strategic planning, the relational aspect is often underestimated. Leaders with robust EI can sense the undercurrents within their teams, ensuring that small issues don't balloon into major conflicts.

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I agree completely — emotional intelligence and self-awareness are key to healthy leadership. They help you, as leader, to create positive interactions with team members that create high-quality relationships over time. These interactions put money in the relational and emotional bank, which pays real dividends in terms of well-being and team effectiveness. A large body of research shows that positive exchanges between leaders and teams go hand in hand with desirable outcomes like performance, commitment, job satisfaction, empowerment, and well-being. They also help to resolve potential issues early, reducing role ambiguity and conflict.

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3 How does a lack of EI and self-awareness hurt your leadership?

Leaders with low emotional intelligence and self-awareness may exhibit behaviors that can be detrimental to their leadership and relationships. These behaviors can include being unaware or unresponsive to emotions, responding impulsively or aggressively to stress or criticism, disregarding feedback and learning opportunities, making decisions based on biases or emotions, lacking the ability to empathize or connect with their followers, peers, or superiors, creating a negative and toxic work culture, and ultimately losing credibility and respect from others.

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Kristin Baer

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One of the biggest negative impacts of a lack of EI and self-awareness is damaging trust and creating a culture of silence. If people feel like they cannot trust you to share what they are really thinking or how they feel about a situation, people will eventually stop speaking up. This is one of the most dangerous situations for a leader to be in because you then you feel like everything is great, but in reality, people become disengaged, unhappy, unproductive, and eventually leave.

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4 How can you assess your EI and self-awareness?

To begin improving your emotional intelligence (EI) and self-awareness, it’s essential to assess your current level and identify areas of improvement. To do this, you can take online tests or quizzes, seek feedback from those who know you well, reflect on past experiences and reactions, keep a journal, and seek professional guidance. All of these methods can help you measure your EI and self-awareness skills.

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5 How can you develop your EI and self-awareness?

Gaining a comprehensive understanding of your emotional intelligence (EI) and self-awareness can be accomplished through practice and learning. To enhance these skills, you can practice mindfulness and meditation to increase your awareness of your emotions and sensations. Additionally, reading books, articles, or podcasts that teach you about EI and self-awareness concepts and strategies can help. Taking courses or workshops is another great way to learn and apply EI and self-awareness skills. Joining groups or communities that support your EI and self-awareness growth is also beneficial. Finally, seeking feedback from those who have high EI and self-awareness can be an effective way to model their behaviors.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

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Sacha C.

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Insufficient emotional intelligence in leadership impacts more than just immediate operations. It can have a ripple effect on an organization's culture, guiding future leaders and molding the company's values for subsequent generations.

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