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Significance of EQ and Emotional Stability in Business

BY · June 5, 2015 10:06 am

Even though having high IQ and necessary skills to run a business is important in running of a business, EQ should not be overlooked either. Emotional intelligence and emotional stability in business play the biggest roles in ensuring business success.

As a leader in your business, ensure your emotions don’t become a barrier to attaining the best performance at work. Once you’re faced with work challenges, emotions can either serve as a motivator or a barrier to meeting your goals.

Emotions can get the better of us at times but what one should understand is being emotionally fickle is a liability when it comes to owning and running of a business.

As an entrepreneur, neither your employees nor you can thrive when emotionally unstable. If your mind is filled with negativity, this could turn out to be detrimental for success in business. Therefore, learn to extract positive energy out of negativity; put your best foot forward and achieve your best at work.

For emotional stability in business to work in favour of the business and personal growth, emotional control is vital. It helps in managing what you’re continually feeling and how you react to situations. Thus, a combination of emotional intelligence and emotional stability can enable a person with high IQ to propel a business to success.

In the business world, EQ enables proper grasping and management of own emotions, as well as those of others. It enables the entrepreneur to appropriately process and tackle challenges they may face head-on. Additionally, it permits the cultivation of better quality relations between workers.

Once workers become conscious of the fact that you can appropriately handle your emotions, it will open up the space for effective communication, a crucial attribute in ensuring the growth and success of a business.

EQ is all about being in control. Instead of viewing challenges as problems, you need to see beyond that, analyze all factors that led to that situation and generate adequate solutions.

As a leader in your workplace, a dictatorial approach will lead to failure. Always keep in mind that inasmuch as you are above your employees, they are also people who have emotions; emotions that ought to be respected. Interact with them and take their ideas into consideration. This will transform the workplace into a pleasant place and in turn make your business a successful one.

As long as your employees respect your leadership style and the manner you handle yourself, they will respect their work and perform their best.

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