Meditation Increases Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Skills
One of my current PhD students, Ms Tanmika Tamwatin has completed an experiment to investigate whether Mindfulness meditation can significantly increase emotional intelligence and leadership skills for senior executives. Eighty leaders participated in an experiment in Thailand. They were randomly allocated to the control and experimental groups (with 40 participants in each group), and their emotional intelligence and leadership skills were measured before and after experiments using EQ-I and Leadership Inventory instruments respectively. The experimental group was involved in regular weekly meditation practice during the period of three months.
The analysis of the data obtained revealed that, as expected, participants in the control group did not demonstrate any significant change in their emotional intelligence and leadership skills before and after experiments. However, the data obtained for the participants in the experimental group revealed, at 95% confidence interval, statistically significant increase in both emotional intelligence and leadership skills. The mean average for increase in emotional intelligence in experimental group was 15.375 %, whilst the mean average for increase in scores for leadership skills was 10.38 %.
We were amased with the results obtained, and we now plan to run a similar experiment in London. If you are interested to participate in this study, please contact Ms Tamwatin on tanmika.t@googlemail.com.
