Introduction:

In Cuban context, there are problems in the management of health institutions that only a manager who is a true leader can transform them; for this, it is necessary the interrelation of leadership, motivation and emotional intelligence

Objective:

To reflect on the relationship between leadership, motivation and emotional intelligence.

Development:

Health care institutions require leaders who have an adequate approach to assume the challenge, capacity and responsibility to lead people to the effective achievement of their individual and collective goals. Sharing ethical values, having exemplarity, creativity, commitment and adequate communication are essential conditions for effective leadership, in addition to working as a team. For success in the conduct of public health processes, participatory management becomes a necessity, which requires leadership focused on the development of communications, motivation of workers, in order to strengthen teaching, research, care and management functions. In this sense, motivation is an indispensable condition for the efficient performance of any activity that is carried out.

Conclusions:

Interrelationship among leaders, motivation and emotional intelligence constitute a driving force, a space of well-being, of personal and professional realization of those who perform it to achieve a goal.

This integration must be done from a perspective of average responsibility between success and results in order to increase the health status of the population and their satisfaction with the services.

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