Up Your Leadership EQ - Celebrating Emotional Intelligence Month

EQ - Emotional Quotient - Emotional intelligence / soft skills is the ability to understand, use, and manage your emotions positively to reduce stress, communicate more effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflicts. Sixty-seven percent of the competencies needed to manage or lead others are emotionally based. If you can't make an emotional connection and establish a relationship with those on your team, you will be an ineffective manager or leader. To retain and attract talent, you need to increase your leadership EQ. Listen to this episode of my Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak to learn how.