Key Points: Emotional Intelligence-Key to Becoming a Great Leader
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Key Points
What is Emotional Intelligence?
In the wise words of Daniel Goldman (a leader of emotional intelligence), he defines EQ as: “The capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.”
The ability to recognize how one person is feeling or will feel and react accordingly is a home field advantage at your workplace. This learned soft skill will help you genuinely understand your team on a personal level and adapt to your workplace environment resulting in how you are viewed. Positive experiences from your peers will open up new doors of leadership opportunities.
Keys to Becoming a Better Leader with Emotional Intelligence
1. Observe how you react to other people (your judgement and stereotypes)
Look at the other person’s body language when you interact with them. See if it is a positive or negative reaction. For a better perspective, ask your close peers for feedback.
2. Practice identifying your emotions and how to direct your behavior
Brainstorm your trigger points of negative emotions — anger, sadness, jealousy, frustration, inadequacy, emptiness, etc. Journal any recent scenarios and find ways to redirect your behavior to a neutral state.
3. Self-Evaluate know your strengths and weakness
It is ok to not to be skillful at everything. Asking for assistance is a great way to make your weakness become your strength. A well functioning team is there to balance out everyone’s strengths and weaknesses. The worse case scenario is lying to your team that your weakness is your strength. This will affect how you are perceived and you may lose credibility.
4. Understand how you react to stressful situation and your plan of protection
Exercise different stressful scenarios in your head and write down a plan to help decompress. Some examples could be breathing exercises, relaxing music, taking a walk or venting out to your closest co-worker.
5. Take responsibility for your emotions and actions — success and failure
If your emotion get the best of you, it is ok — we are human. Retrace your steps on what led to that specific episode then find ways to remedy the situation (e.g. apologizing and talking with the person)
6. Examine how your actions will affect others before you take those action (empathy)
To every action, there is always an equal or even greater reaction. Be considerate of others before you make a chess move. Try to think of how this could negatively affect your team, individual or boss.
Contact
If you’d like to connect with Kimiko, her contact information is below:
Kimiko Sakuma
Training Route 3 — www.TrainingRoute3.com
kimiko@TrainingRoute3.com
Any ERG group or organization who is interested in having this EQ topic presented, please contact Kimiko.
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About the 3 Organizations
Asian Business League of San Francisco
The Asian Business League of San Francisco (ABL-SF) was founded in 1980 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian Pacific American leadership in business. Through seminars, workshops, and social and networking functions, ABL-SF provides its members with opportunities to develop and enhance leadership and management skills and to build relationships with other Asian professionals. ABL-SF also provides its members with opportunities to meet business leaders in the community and to address issues facing Asian professionals and Asian-owned businesses.
Asian Leaders Alliance
Asian Leaders Alliance
Asian Leaders Alliance (ALA) is a self-organized group founded in 2017 consisting of leaders from 70+ Asian Employee Resource Groups (“ERG”) in the San Francisco Area. ALA empowers members and allies to grow as civic leaders and foster collaboration. Since its inception, ALA has held numerous professional networking events, shared best practices of ERG programs, and annual summer leadership programs with Southeast Asian Development Center (“SEADC”) and Chinatown YMCA. ALA continues to further explore opportunities to positively impact the community, celebrate culture, and support D&I efforts.
National Association of Asian American Professionals
National Association of Asian American Professionals
NAAAP, the National Association of Asian American Professionals, inspires, cultivates, and empowers Asian and Pacific Islander leaders for professional excellence to make meaningful impacts in the workplace and in the community. Founded in 1982, NAAAP is a non-profit organization with over 30 chapters in the USA & Canada.
