Strategies for fostering emotional intelligence among organizational leaders

Abstract

Currently, there are different challenges that organizational leaders encounter and for such reason, certain traits are being required for effective leadership to take place. Emotional intelligence (EI) has gained importance within the organizational sector. As a result, training current organizational leaders and future organizational leaders on emotional intelligence is necessary. The purpose of this qualitative applied research was to learn about the most important aspects that should be considered when designing an emotional intelligence training program that could be implemented among leaders of Monterrey, Mexico and Latin-America. Existing EI training programs were analyzed and experts were interviewed for collecting data.