Business Coaching Emotional Intelligence

Compelling Vision

An undeniable factor of business development and culture change will be emotional intelligence leadership ability, a critical factor in business success. Our view is that leaders also must have a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Great groups have extraordinary leaders who can articulate a compelling vision that engages passion in others.

Absolute Congruency

To lead cultural change an individual must walk his talk, to have and sustain the vital credibility necessary for their followers to develop high levels of trust. This is seen as the essential key to interdependence in relationships.

High Trust = High Performing Organisations

The payoff for creating fun safe environments in the workplace is enormous, low absenteeism, retention of key people and a team of fully engaged, highly focused, and committed results driven people.

Clear Effective Process

Part of EI leadership will be to set clear priorities with agreed timelines for business development imperatives, milestones, to develop a culture of accountability; obtaining full agreement on monitoring the plan.

Complete Goal Alignment & Full Engagement

There are numerous metaphors about goal alignment, so critical to business development: singing off the same song sheet, pulling together. Excellence is often described as doing the ordinary extraordinarily well. EI leadership invests time at the very beginning of any culture change interventions, asking the tough questions, not papering over the cracks. If the boat is to be rocked it is best done at the beginning of projects.

Creative Collaboration

One has absolutely no chance of a flawless project unless collaborative partnerships are formed. These negotiations can be frustrating, hence the need for someone leading with emotional intelligence. Hot spots of resistance need careful evaluation and to be transformed into full uncompromised commitment. It is vital that a perspective checks are carried out at the formative stage. Everyone needs to be involved in the goals to increase motivational dedication to the success of the plans. Everyone needs to feel their voice was heard and given due consideration. In doing so you can avoid group think, and the fatal living in a bubble syndrome (IBM being the most noted example).

Emotional Intelligence & Business Development

Research by the Centre for Creative Leadership has found that the primary causes of derailment in executives involves deficits in emotional competence. The three primary ones are difficulty in handling change, not being able to work well in a team, and poor interpersonal relations.

For us emotional intelligence is the vital third leg, cognitive competence and technical skills are as Goleman suggest the entry level for today’s leaders.

For business development to take a quantum leap the must be a stronger awareness of the critical part the leaders mood plays. Its not difficult, but neither is it a quick fix. The leadership has to consciously decide to invest in creating the right conditions for there to be a synthesis of cognitive and technical skills to engage the collective wisdom.

To find out more about how we can deliver concrete meaningful results for your organisation contact our founder, Joseph Geraghty.