Nurse managers with that skill can easily form relationships with others, read employees’ feelings and responses accurately, and lead successfully. Emotionally intelligent leaders’ behaviour also stimulates the creativity of their employees. Gole manetal. have identified visionary,coaching, affiliate, and democratic styles as resonant, and pace setting and commanding styles as dissonant leadership styles. Most leaders use both resonant and dissonant leadership styles. The leadership styles of Golemanetal. are applied as the basis of this study because earlier studies refer to the significance of these styles, especially that of EI in manager’s work. In addition, these leadership styles are one way of aiming to carry out transformational leadership. Especially visionary, coaching, affiliate, and democratic styles include elements that promote transformational leadership. Such elements are for example the leader being visionary and empowering staff.