Leadership Emotional Intelligence - Purpose Plus People Skills = Success

A 360 degree assessment basically asks others - supervisors, peers, direct reports and even customers to rate someone's performance. A study of 400,000 leadership 360's confirms that purpose plus people skills gets the highest performance ratings.

In their book Extraordinary Leader, John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman studied the 360-degree assessments of 400,000 leaders. One of their key findings isolated leaders whose main skill was getting results from leaders whose main skill was engaging people. The results showed no statistical difference between these groups.

Results-oriented leaders got to the 90th percentile of leadership effectiveness 13% of the time, and the people-oriented leaders got there 9% of the time.

And what about those leaders with both results and people competencies? A whopping 66% achieved the top level of leadership effectiveness. Link: Tofu And The Changing Nature Of Leadership - Forbes.com.

The Genos 360 degree emotional intelligence assessment gets feedback on the 7 essential emotional skills. Write me for info or ask your questions.

Joseph Liberti
EQ At Work