• Eureka Kashyap
• Col (Dr.) Tajammul Hoda

Emotional Intelligence as a concept has bloomed in the past few years. The ability to be prospectively in tune with yourself and your emotions as well as having sound situational awareness can be a powerful tool for leading a team. The act of knowing, understanding and responding to emotions, overcoming stressful moments and awareness of how your words and actions affects others is described as emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence consists of the following five factors: 1) Self Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. People who are successful have optimistic attitude, right kind of flexibility in thoughts, a quick learning attitude and are emotionally balanced. An emotionally balanced professional has the capability to cope up with uncertainty and imperfection. They are not very judgemental and believe in win-win situation. They like to groom others; respect humanity i.e. treats others as “humans”. They have the ability to cope up with all kind of situations whether it’s about managing a bad boss or an undisciplined subordinate, or high demanding job responsibility etc. Also, today the definition of leadership has changed in a way that it has become more people-focussed. A person having a good understanding of EQ can be a good team player and hence can become an effective team leader. This paper throws some light on how effective leaders demonstrate EQ and what dimensions of EQ are highly important for effective leadership.

Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, EQ

"LEADERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLEGENCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.1606-1614, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902E31.pdf

"LEADERSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLEGENCE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp1606-1614, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1902E31.pdf