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Evelyn Snow
EMBA Program
to a lack of emotional intelligence and servant leadership skills. Experience and hard
skills only are no longer adequate to thrive in these times. Using the results of a study
conducted by [CITATION Muk16 \l 1033 ], the roles played by the constructs of servant
leadership (SL) and emotional intelligence (EI) in building the nontechnical abilities and
examined.
healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous and more likely to become servant leaders
themselves[ CITATION Gre70 \l 1033 ]. [ CITATION Gol95 \l 1033 ] Noted that emotional
intelligence is at the very center of effective leadership. The resulting findings of the
study outlined that both SL and EI skills had a positive influence in enhancing the
self-interest to serve the needs of others, help others grow, and provide opportunities for
others to gain materially and emotionally” [CITATION Daf18 \p 178 \l 1033 ]. Emotional
successfully manage emotions in self and others” [CITATION Daf18 \p 146 \l 1033 ].
The results of the Mukonoweshuro et al.’s study highlights that servant leadership
and emotional intelligence are important and essential skills for successful leaders. It
suggests that “leaders endowed with SL and EI competencies were more able to harness
the energies of their teams towards attainment of the vision, and create high trust and
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INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SL, EI and LEADERSHIP
integrity between leaders and their teams. Qualitative findings of the study on the
perceived such factors as social awareness, influencing and persuasion skills, role
servant leaders includes a high sense of EI and are effective at managing their emotions
and relationships with others. Since emotional intelligence is largely about managing
relationships and development of high social awareness or empathy, it can directly lead
leadership style and it can be expected that an employee’s perception of their manager’s
servant leadership behavior would be higher if the manager had higher levels of
emotional intelligence.
To succeed in today’s environment requires whole leaders who use both head and
heart [ CITATION Phi10 \l 1033 ]. Leaders have to use their heads to tend to organizational
issues such as goals and strategies, production schedules, structure, finances, operational
issues, and so forth. They also have to use their hearts to tend to human issues, such as
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Mukonoweshuro, J., Sanangura, C., & Munapo, E. (2016). The role of servant leadership and emotional
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