Why You Need Emotional Intelligence—and How to Get It

Did you know your emotional intelligence can affect how successful you are? Especially as a leader.
Success as a leader can depend not just on how well you manage your employees, but how well you manage yourself. Employees and their emotions can be stressors for a manager, and managers who have honed their own emotional intelligence are better at managing others’ emotions, too.
Related: 7 Qualities of People with High Emotional Intelligence
As illustrated in this infographic, refining your emotional IQ can be done a number of ways, and it can lead to success for both leaders and employees alike. How will you find success through honing your emotional intelligence?
-H. E. James
Source: University of Maryland
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