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title: How to empower your leadership genius
description: Can we grow and develop our emotional intelligence to be supportive, engaging, assertive, sensitive and aware? Absolutely. Try following this 5-step process.
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# [How to empower your leadership genius](https://www.imalia.com.au/our-voice/how-to-empower-your-leadership-genius)

 Written by [Muffy Churches](https://www.imalia.com.au/our-voice/author/muffy-churches) | 13-Oct-2017 22:00:00

**“Do I have one?” you ask. Yes!**

**We girls definitely have special-issue mojo, but the intelligence I’m talking about is less about any Einstein quotient and more about our ‘nature of being’- the side of us that is innately nurturing, supportive, engaging, emotionally intelligent, compassionate, gracefully assertive, sensitive, and aware.**

**Research on the topic of ‘What makes great leaders great?’ points specifically to emotional intelligence (EQ) as being the superstar of all of these traits. ****By definition, EQ is the ability to recognise, understand, and tactically manage emotions in self and others to create a desired outcome. Flowing with this process can be challenging, however, when a conversation triggers our defensive ego causing us to knee-jerk into a regrettable reaction.**

**Can we grow and develop our EQ to avoid this common scenario? Absolutely. Try following this 5-step process:**

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