Sunday, October 5, 2025
spot_img

10 Ways to Develop Your Emotional Intelligence in Workplace

spot_img
- Advertisement -

People who love to come to work and give their best discretionary effort at some level have bought into your Organization Culture. The Organization culture is made of visible and invisible factors like your organizational values, norms, purpose, myths and symbols, stories and your leadership.

To sustain the best of your organizational culture and retain your talent, leaders have to inspire, motivate and connect at a deeper level. You can be sure that your people will be asking themselves, “Why should I follow him or her?”

To be an engaging, authentic leader you need to understand and harness the best of your people. Emotional intelligence is the key that enables you to do this.

Here are 10 tips for developing your Emotional Intelligence:

1- Develop and Deepen Your Self-awareness 

This is a fundamental competency of emotional and spiritual intelligence or wisdom (EQ/EI and SQ) and the building block of great leadership.  It helps you make more insightful decisions and course-correct as you go.  Become more mindful of how you are feeling in the  moment, try naming these emotions and observe its impact on your consequent thoughts and behavior.

2- Become More Emotionally Aware of Others

Recognize what motivates people and what makes them feel valued.  Everyone is different so avoid taking a “cookie cutter” approach. Employee engagement goes up when people feel they are being seen, heard and recognized for who they and the unique combination of skills, qualities, values, needs and drivers they bring. A bit of appreciation goes a long way.

3- Deepen your Listening

A common tendency amongst busy executives is to listen only to the words and content of what the other person is saying. Start actively listening out for other things such as the intent and emotion underlying in the other persons communication. You might be pleasantly surprised as to where the communication goes!

4- Be Open to Feedback

There are aspects of ourselves and our behavior that “we don’t even know that we don’t know.” Feedback allows you to become more in tune with what you need to amplify as well as manage. If you have received feedback which you have filtered out, take note and take action.

5- Show Empathy

This is the ability to put yourself in others shoes.  This is another fundamental EQ competency which enables leaders to better engage their people.  It doesn’t mean sympathy or that you necessarily agree with the other person’s perspective – it demonstrates that you “get” where they are coming from. “People don’t care how much you know until they know that you care.”

6- Take Ownership and Responsibility

Taking full responsibility for your decisions and actions takes courage and occasionally we fail.  The issue is not that we fail but that how quickly we correct our mistakes fast enough or take responsibility for them. Maintaining our integrity isa moment-by-moment occurrence as we make a choice to live our declared mission and values. Taking ownership and responsibility will stretch your EQ.

7- Leverage Diversity 

Create a culture and environment which values the contribution of a diversity of thoughts, ideas and people.  This will expand your own mental models, avoid the cloning effect and group think and force your thinking and emotions to go beyond their current comfort zone.

8- Use a Coaching Style

Rather than tell, coach your people to arrive at solutions themselves. Coaching enhances your EQ as it forces you to actively listen and go beyond the obvious.

9- Time for Self-reflection 

Make time either daily or weekly to reflect on what you have done well and what needs attention. Engaging in self-reflective practice provides a powerful pathway to insights and for growing your EQ. Focus, attention and repetition are keys to laying down new neural pathways.

10- Do an EQ Audit

Information helps us concretize things.  For example a senior executive leading culture change had innovation as one of his mantras.  Yet, he was most astonished when he realized that his particular way of operating was stumping his team member s from offering any creative possibillities as they knew how he would react.

Soft skills make hard business sense. Are you harnessing the best of your EQ to drive your business results?


Author- Jasbindar Singh is a business psychologist, leadership coach, author and speaker. She has been awarded the New Zealand Psychological Society Fellowship in 2017. www.jasbindarsingh.com

spot_img

Editorial

Why TCS Deferred FY25 Salary Hike: Better Hike Ahead?

TCS had initially announced its annual salary hike during...

Deloitte, PWC, EY, KPMG to Hire 1 Lakh People in India in FY25

According to estimates from top company officials and industry...

Higher EPS Pension Application Stuck: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fix

Nearly 97,640 Provident Fund (PF) members and pensioners under...

Employee Benefits at India’s Big 4 Firms Deloitte, PwC , EY, KPMG

The Big 4 firms; Deloitte, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), EY (Ernst...

TCS Announces 4-8% Salary Hike for FY25, Lowest in Last 4 Years

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services provider,...

Must Read

IMF cuts India’s FY20 growth forecast to 4.8%

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 20th Jan 2020,...

Accenture Faces Revenue Challenges Amid Federal Spending Cuts

Accenture, a global leader in consulting and IT services,...

Tata Steel successfully concluded season 5 ‘Women Of Mettle’ program

Mumbai, September 15, 2021: In its endeavour to promote...

ESIC scheme adds 9.33 lakh new members in November

ESIC scheme adds 9.33 lakh new members in November Around...

Salary hikes in this year 2022

Given that the last two years were tough for the industry because of the...

Cognizant in India Has Announced Walk-in Interview on Feb 15

Cognizant Technology Solutions has announced a walk-in interview drive...

TCS Hiring Spree: 2400+ New Jobs, Entry-level & Lateral Roles

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services company,...

Related Articles

SightsIn Plus
SightsIn Plushttps://sightsinplus.com/
SightsIn Plus is an India’s leading high-quality people-focused monthly HR Magazine and provides up-to-date HR News, Leadership Announcements, Best HR Practices and Insights by Global CHROs, CEOs, HR Advisors, Business Managers and HR Heads on topics of interest to HR professionals. To subscribe SightsIn Plus, HR Magazine please visit- https://sightsinplus.com/subscribe/