Abstract
In today’s competitive business climate,
organizations need leaders with more than
technical and intellectual competence to
maintain a competitive advantage. Successful
leaders combine strong interpersonal skills with
technical knowledge to improve their potential
and performance. The core competencies of EI
provide the foundation to further develop your
intra/interpersonal skills which are essentially
needed for an effective leader. A highly emotional
intelligent leader is an asset for the organization
who performs well and is widely accepted by the
people working in the organization
In this research paper relationship between
emotional intelligent and leadership is studied
through Exploratory research where case
studies are used as the research technique. This
research paper describes various terms related
to emotional intelligence and leadership such
as self awareness, self management, empathy
and social skills. Its objectives are to study the
concept of emotional intelligence and its role in
leadership. Daniel Goleman’s EI model is taken
as a base for studying the emotional intelligence
concept. Three cases are studied and analysed
based on the parameters mentioned in the Daniel
Goleman’s model.Study reveals that for being
a successful leader, leaders needs to practice
emotional intelligence and they need to keep on
practicing it for further improvement.