6 Tips to Consider While Hiring Emotionally Intelligent People
Emotional Intelligence codified Emotional intelligence is intelligence at a higher level and includes qualities such as emotional awareness, empathy and perfect identification of other peopleu2019s moods as well as managing the mood of the self. A leaderu2019s emotional intelligence has an impact on the workplace, as it emphasizes his or her personal relationship traits. In fact, leaders who have high levels of emotional intelligence can easily communicate and work with all their stakeholders u2013 be it customers, partners or co-workers. This will eventually develop a positive and productive workplace. In fact, if all the managers of the top management had a high level of emotional intelligence, there would be strong sync within your team, thereby empowering every associate to put his/her best efforts to make a mark. This would ultimately help your business to overcome various barriers, thereby strengthening your organization to reach the maximum potential. So, what is the benchmark to know whether you are hiring emotionally intelligent people or not? You have to assume that emotionally intelligent candidates put in their best behaviors to impress and win over the interviewer. Of course, as a hiring manager, you cannot easily judge how they behave in your actual work environment and what type of tasks can they accomplish on a day to day basis. Also, you may wonder whether these candidates can handle the stress, work under pressure and easily gel with the rest of the team. Generally, HR managers focus only on the past experiences, skill sets and qualifications to assess the suitability of the candidates without ever putting a serious thought on where do these candidates stand in terms of emotional intelligence. Hence, you need to have a good understanding of the various parameters of emotional intelligence to make a prudent judgment about their emotional intelligence levels.
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