‘The New Leader’- Dr. Daniel Goleman said that Indian CEOs need to work more on their Emotional Intelligence.

   Dr. Daniel Goleman, the legendary name in Emotional Intelligence and Leadership and author of many best sellers including ‘The New Leader’ said that Indian CEOs need to work more on their Emotional Intelligence.

Indian managers are high found to be high on IQ & better in things like expansion plans, M&A, & inner strength but low on things like excellence in execution, team leadership, empowerment accountability, which relates to EQ, when compared to their counterparts in the West or China. Dr. Daniel was on his visit to India to address a two day Summit on "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership" in New Delhi on November 23 and 24.

"Social Awareness, Empathy has to be built in the system to develop team for long term & create harmony in working relationships", said Dr. Goleman while commenting on leadership styles. "Attitudinal change was the single biggest factor in bringing change in HPCL" added Ashis Sen, DGM HPCL & Vice Chairmen FEIL (Forum for Emotional Intelligence).

Dr. Daniel, who shot to fame with New York Times bestseller "Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships" based his opinion on the widely popular ‘Hay’s Profile’ – the most widely used job evaluation methodology used in over 8,000 organizations worldwide.

Prof Sanghamitra Budhapriya of FORE School of Management, who herself has authored two books in behavioural studies added, "Indian organisation need to put extra efforts on boosting the EQ of its leaders as we have a vast pool of talents waiting to be global business leaders.

Organisations investing on developing this skill set for their employees have already started getting results. The RoI soon gets reflected in the balance sheets" Indroneil, coach & facilitator in behavioural competencies said, "IQ in the neighbourhood of 110-115 fails as a predictor of success in a career.

In other words, you need to be smart enough to handle the cognitive complexity of the information you need for a given role or job, but after reaching that threshold of "smart enough," your intellect makes little difference and that’s when overall competence comes into play and EQ takes over."

When asked by a young participant on how the subordinates of Indian Managers should manage their superiors, or is their a bottom-up approach, Dr. Daniel said, "a chunk of young employees often leave organisations as they do not get along with their bosses, on the low emotional connect, aspect." In a lighter vein he added, "in such cases bosses resume’s should be sent to recruitment consultants."

In India the entire conditioning since childhood is done on cognitive practices essentially marks one gets in school or college then CAT or the entrance exam scores for higher education and at a later stage the salary he earns becomes a parameter to judge his professional success and then suddenly one expects him to show empathy & be emotionally intelligent!

This is not something which is easy to happen, Nirmalya Pal added. Organized by the Forum for Emotional Intelligence Learning, the Seminar was supported by Government of India and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. FEIL, was created by the coming together of eminent academicians and professionals committed to a common cause of building caring and compassionate Leadership.

The objective of the seminar was to include learning inspirational leadership and to develop oneself and others for improved individual and organizational performance and effectiveness. Dr. Daniel also touched upon ‘Ecological Intelligence’ the new concept, in which each of us is a stake holder.

Source: Solus media

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