Emotional Intelligence and Leadership: A Vision of Excellence

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership A Vision
of Excellence
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Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and Excellence

• EI is intricately related to Leadership
• Leadership and Vision are intricately related
• Leadership Brings our best in self and others
• EI provides a foundation and framework for
  Leadership and Personal Excellence
• Personal Excellence is Self-Defined and
  Self-Directed

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Accountability Now

• Live and work in a time where Accountability is
  job one
• Mostly an externally determined measure or
  standard
• In education Tested Performance
• In business ROI, Targets, Quotas, Financial
  Goals
• Tends to be externally derived and demanded

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Excellence and Vision Building Quality From
Within

• In our EI Model, Personal Excellence is more of a
  personal standard of actions and performance
• Self-Defined and Self-Directed
• Experiential System (Emotional Mind) seems to be
  the lead system
• Excellence builds on positive contributions of EI
  and the Emotional Mind
• Personal commitment to become a better and wiser
  person to model personal excellence

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Accountability A Personal Perspective

• For sure, external measures and extrinsic
  motivators are important
• Often, externally-derived standards are adopted
  and imposed
• We need to accept and deliver accountability
• Often, perceived as artificial and in tested
  performance
• External standards are cognitive system standards

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Accountability A Personal Perspective

• On personal level, we know that personal
  standards are often more important
• In other words, intrinsic motivation (building
  quality from within) trumps extrinsic motivation
• Organizations need motivated and achievement
  driven people to succeed

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Accountability A Personal Perspective

• Leadership needs to bring out the best in people
• Need to bridge external factors and internal
  measures of excellence
• Learned ability of EI helps leaders build a
  bridge of excellence with contributions of
  emotional system
• When emotional intelligence is missing, it is
  painfully obvious and cause for real concern

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Leadership and Personal Excellence

• A Vision of excellence and ones best self is key
• Self awareness (honest and accurate) is essential
  for leaders and persons who want to grow
• Our emerging model of personal excellence is
  grounded in EI research and the development of
  the whole person
• Our model is not the model and it may not even
  be true.

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Personal Excellence

• Emotional Learning System is beginning point for
  thinking about and developing EI and personal
  excellence
• ELS STEPS - EXPLORE, IDENTIFY, UNDERSTAND, LEARN,
  APPLY/MODEL
• Personal Excellence is by-product of a confluence
  of systems, principles, and skills
• Join me on a personal journey to personal
  excellence

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Two Truths in Learning

• I Value of Seeing the big picture first at
  beginning not at the end
• In this case, the big picture is a vision of
  self at our very best - learning, developing, and
  modeling emotional intelligence
• II Starting with the end in mind
• In this case, the end in mind is Personal
  Excellence

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The Big Picture Learning the Positive
Contributions of Emotional Intelligence

• An Overview of EI as a learned ability
• Understanding your emotional mind
• A past present future temporal perspective
• Breaking the Habit of Emotional Reactivity
• Healthy environments for learning and change
• Personal and accurate self awareness (ESAP)

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The Big Picture Learning the Positive
Contributions of Emotional Intelligence

• Developing an emotionally healthy mind
• Using the Emotional Learning System (ELS)
• Understanding the necessary conditions for
  emotional-social learning
• Learning how to navigate transitions and change
  (Darwins presentation)
• Emotional Skills Assessment Process (ESAP)

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Emotional Skills Assessment Process ESAP

• Interpersonal Skills Assertion Anger
  Management Anxiety Management
• Leadership Skills Comfort Empathy Decision
  Making Personal Leadership
• Self Management Skills Time Management Drive
  Strength Commitment Ethic Positive Personal
  Change
• Intrapersonal Skills Self Esteem Stress
  Management

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Our Journey To Personal ExcellenceGuidance and
Vision

• Guidance System future achievements growth
  personal change in line with values
• Principle of Vision set clear goals positive
  orientation with potential to grow and change
  control natural and self-defeating emotions
• Key Skills Goal Setting Personal Orientation
  (Health Change) Self Control

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Our Journey To Personal ExcellencePower and
Commitment

• Power System supplies energy focus for
  managing self staying on track
• Principle of Commitment manage self and
  responsibilities daily commit to personal
  standard of excellence accomplish goals that
  are important
• Key Skills Time Management Commitment Ethic
  Drive Strength

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Our Journey To Personal ExcellenceBeliefs and
Purpose

• Belief System core, inner system with ideas of
  achievement influences what you attempt how
  well appreciation of our unique potential to
  succeed
• Principle of Purpose view self as valuable with
  worth dignity focus on competence
  confidence in touch with our strengths
• Key Skills Self Esteem Self Confidence Self
  Appreciation

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Our Journey To Personal ExcellenceBalance and
Change

• Balance System provides harmony works to
  manage transitions/change achieving healthy
  balance
• Principle of Change manage change positively
  while staying healthy be decisive and make good
  choices confront and resolve problems
  consistently
• Key Skills Stress Management Decision Making
  Problem Solving

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Our Journey To Personal ExcellenceSupport and
Relationships

• Support System connection to others via
  relationships holds energy hope from people
  who accept and care about you establish
  maintain healthy relationships (affirms personal
  value)
• Principle of Relationships form positive
  relationships quickly understand others
  accurately buffers stress
• Key Skills Awareness Empathy - Assertion

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Personal Excellence Map

• Honest, intentional, positive assessment of key
  skills and behaviors in 5 systems and principles
• Excellence is self-defined and self-directed
• Develop personal benchmarks for developing
  excellence in our life and work
• To build accountability, we need to develop the
  underdeveloped system

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Inspiration from John GardnerA Focus on Building
Self

• WHAT WE MUST REACH FOR IS A CONCEPTION OF
  PERPETUAL SELF-DISCOVERY, PERPETUAL RESHAPING TO
  REALIZE ONES BEST SELF, TO BE THE PERSON ONE
  COULD BE

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Inspiration from Cesar ChavezA Focus on Building
Community

• WE CANNOT SEEK ACHIEVEMENT FOR OURSELVES AND
  FORGET ABOUT PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY FOR OUR
  COMMUNITYOUR AMBITIONS MUST BE BROAD ENOUGH TO
  INCLUDE THE ASPIRATION AND NEEDS OF OTHERS, FOR
  THEIR SAKES AND FOR OUR OWN.

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership A Vision
of Excellence

• 2007 Institute for Emotional Intelligence
• Texas AM University Kingsville
• February 22-23, 2007
• gary.low_at_tamuk.edu