A team leader asks how emotional intelligence improves profitability and team cohesion. The answer: leaders earn respect through consistent actions, not orders. When your beliefs are challenged, how you respond teaches your team everything about emotional intelligence.
I'm a team leader. How can I use emotional intelligence to drive my profitability or even just make a cohesive team?
Leading by example. The days are long gone of when you can just do what— say, do what I say, not what I do. You have to behave in a way that makes your team respect you, and a lot of times the test will come when you as a leader run across something you don't like you don't agree with, or you don't understand. Your team is waiting to see how you respond to that. And those are the, the greatest opportunities to practice emotional intelligence by having this skillful ability to process those things that buck up against your belief system or against one of your values or how you think things should be done. And so as a leader, you want to definitely lead by example.
I was literally kicked off a Southwest flight before for being disrespectful.
