Leadership begins with
understanding the emotions of one self. This
is one of the main reasons for which the importance of emotional quotient is deeply
highlighted in SOIL.
During our leadership session
with Anil sir, EQ was taken up as one of the key topics of the day. A
significant correlation exists between enhancing one’s EQ and the ability to
listen. I feel that effective listening can improve the EQ of a person to a
great extent. When I am mentioning about listening, am not only emphasizing on listening
through our ears, but also the importance of listening through our eyes. This
helps us to give the minutest attentions to detail. Such level of understanding
will improve the level of EQ to a great extent. One, listens to understand and
the more you understand the better you are in an emotional level. This is the first step in improving one’s EQ.
EQ as
we know is derived through trust, respect and acceptance. But in order to take
it totally to another level, one must learn to appreciate the goodness amongst
mankind. This is where the power of appreciative inquiry comes into the
picture. Appreciative inquiry, as we are aware, is a tool which helps eradicate
negativity using its alter ego – positivity. Understanding the power of
appreciating the best qualities of others play an important role in bringing a
positive atmosphere and also acts as a factor of motivation in order to achieve
bigger results.
After
all, making ordinary people achieve extraordinary things is the ultimate aim of
appreciative inquiry. This habit of appreciative inquiry invariably helps in taking
our EQ to a whole new level and is unparalleled to any other kind of
intelligence.
On a
concluding note, I would like to reiterate that deep listening helps us achieve
great understanding and this understanding opens up to extraordinary ways of
developing oneself to a greater form of a human being.
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