The essence of emotional intelligence in enhancing leadership effectiveness

Abstract

Every young working professional look up to someone who can be trusted at the place of work, someone who can guide them to take correct decisions, who is approachable, who will listen, who can correct them and lead them on corrective path and someone who can motivate them when they do good work. Leading a team with the right attitude is need of major corporate companies. Leadership today impacts not only the success of the organisation but there a many other important aspects starting from the framing and implement the policies, acquiring good talent, organisation’s culture etc., only a good leadership team can bring about the smooth functioning of the organisation. The objective of this paper is to investigate the essence of emotional intelligence in enhancing the leadership effectiveness.