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Understand emotional intelligence essentials like self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and social skills for professional growth and effective leadership. Learn how emotions influence decision-making and build relationships crucial for success. Explore practical strategies to manage emotions and enhance interpersonal connections.
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What Does Emotional Intelligence Include? Self-Awareness Self-Management Empathy Social Skills “Emotional Intelligence refers to the array of personal-management and social skills that allows one to succeed in the workplace and life in general” - Emily A. Sterrett Ph.D. “Leadership is almost all emotional intelligence” - Working with Emotional Intelligence
Important Concepts Emotional Intelligence • Emotions are not unanalyzable “primaries” but are the consequences of ideas stored in the subconscious • Emotions seem automatic but can be changed by changing the inputs • There is not a conflict between reason and emotion. • Emotions do not compel action; everyone has the power to make choices in the face of emotional responses. Even the choice of taking no action. • Healthfully balancing emotion and reason is important to leadership success “We must have the ability to experience emotions to be rational. Why? Because our emotions provide important information about how we understand the world around us.” Judge & Robbins
What are Emotions? Emotional Intelligence Object Cognition Value Appraisal Emotion “Emotions are the form in which one experiences automatic, subconscious value judgments” -Edwin A. Locke
Self-Awareness Emotional Intelligence Emotional Awareness Accurate Self-Assessment Self-Confidence “Attuning to our feelings, according to neurological research, helps us find the meaning in data, and so leads to better decisions. Our emotional memory banks thus enable us to judge information efficiently.” - Primal Leadership “The unexamined life is not worth living” - Socrates
Self-Awareness Emotional Intelligence Emotional Awareness Accurate Self-Assessment Self-Confidence “Attuning to our feelings, according to neurological research, helps us find the meaning in data, and so leads to better decisions. Our emotional memory banks thus enable us to judge information efficiently.” - Primal Leadership “The unexamined life is not worth living” - Socrates
Self-Management Emotional Intelligence Self-Control Integrity Adaptability "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle “Circumstance has no power over you. Your inner weather is always and forever at your command” - Olga Rosmanith
Introspection for Emotional Control Emotional Intelligence • Identify and Name your Emotions • Identify Their Causes • Change the Cause: Object/Cognition/Values • Disengage from Sabotaging Emotions • Consciously and Rationally Choose Actions “This ability does not mean that you never feel emotions or act emotionally but that your emotions are integrated into your decisions and your behavior in a way that enhances your life and lives of those around you. Emotional management is neither suppressing one’s feelings nor venting them. Effective emotional management is not a question of whether we should strive to control our feelings but how we can intelligently engage and disengage from them.” -Caruso & Salovey
Why Does this Matter? Emotional Intelligence
Empathy Emotional Intelligence Understanding Others Service Orientation Appreciating Diversity Political Awareness “A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people.” -Dale Carnegie “The best leaders are and have been those who are the best observers of the human condition.” - Kouzes and Posner
Empathy Emotional Intelligence Understanding Others Service Orientation Appreciating Diversity Political Awareness “A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people.” -Dale Carnegie “The best leaders are and have been those who are the best observers of the human condition.” - Kouzes and Posner
Influence, Power, Social Skills Emotional Intelligence Building Bonds Collaboration and Cooperation Influence “If you are to convert a man to your cause you must first convince him you are his friend.” - Abraham Lincoln “We will work harder and more effectively for people we like. And we will like them in direct proportion to how they make us feel.” - Kouzes and Posner
Sources of Power and Influence Reward Power Coercive Power Legitimate Power Emotional Intelligence Supervision Expert Power Referent Power Leadership
3 Outcomes to Influence • Resistance - The employee is actively or tacitly opposed to carrying out the requests • Compliance – The employee is willing to carry out the requests but is not invested in the success of it. The employee does the bare minimum, enough to avoid punishment. • Commitment – The employee identifies with the purpose and the person making the request. The employee is engaged and wants the request to succeed.
Sources of Power and Employee Reactions • Coercive Power • Reward Power • Legitimate Power • Expert Power • Referent Power Resistance Compliance Commitment
Dale Carnegie Says to Have Lasting Influence on People we Should . . . Emotional Intelligence • Effusive Genuine Praise • Positive Attitude • Care Enough to Remember • Sense of Humor/Self Deprecating • Admit When you are Wrong • Try to Make Others Look Good • Avoid Arguments but not Important Conversations • Respect Others’ Emotions
Emotional Intelligence The Leadership “it” Factor