Leaders need strong interpersonal skills and an understanding of and appreciation for cultural diversity. Without these skills, leaders cannot communicate with and manage others effectively. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to understand you own emotions and those of other people. This helps a leader to understand cultural literacy. Cultural literacy means being literate or knowledgeable about the fundamental differences across cultures.
Emotional intelligence and cultural literacy are necessary skills that allow you to interact with and lead other effectively and the key to interacting with others and managing relationship successfully is communication.
The first step toward emotional intelligence is self-awareness. Realizing the value of cultural differences is a key component of emotional intelligence. By understanding cultural diversity you can communicate with all of the different audiences that form the complexion of the world’s corporation today.
In summary, your emotional intelligence and cultural understanding will affect your leadership in meeting and in teams, as it affects your leadership communication overall.
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