SelfLeadership and Emotional Intelligence

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Self-Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
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Self-Leadership

• Using character to motivate
  decisions and choices.
• Understanding the mutual influence
  of self action and external forces.
• Choosing to Be Proactive when
  faced with challenges.
• Choosing how things affect us
• Attitude is everything.
• Motivating yourself to persist and endure through
  adversity and challenge.

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Self-leadership When Challenged

• Self-leadership assessment
• How strategic are you?
• World-altering strategies
• Self-imposed strategies
• Goal setting for performance improvement
• More on this next week
• What is your purpose? What will your legacy be?

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Motivation in Self-Leadership

• Extrinsic
• Seeking desired rewards.
• Understanding the effect certain
  rewards have on our behavior.
• Intrinsic
• Choosing a career, job and tasks that we find
  rewarding unto themselves.
• Concept of flow in work.
• The joy of the actual work.

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How Does Self-Leadership Influence Leadership of
Others?

• Motivation techniques used?
• Social awareness?
• Attitude?
• Job satisfaction?
• Risk taking?
• Other ways?

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Self-Leadership Through Role Management

• Becoming aware of our roles and their priorities
  and effectively managing role conflict
  enhances our self-leadership abilities.
• A role consists of
• The demands, expectations, responsibilities and
  pressures that other people impose on us.
• Our own perceptions of what we think we ought to
  be doing.
• Our behavior (conscious and unconscious).
• In other words, our behavior is a result of the
  expectations of others and ourselves.

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Exploring Self-Leadership and Role Management

• Draw a Role Pie
• A circle with sections representing different
  roles.
• Rank the sections of the pie.
• Complete the Role Management Inventory
• Reflect on the results.
• What role management strategies do you use most
  often?
• How effective are these strategies for you?
• How is your self-leadership influenced by the
  roles you have?

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Defining Emotional Intelligence

• The capacity for recognizing our own feelings
  and those of others, for motivating ourselves,
  and for managing emotions well in ourselves and
  in our relationships. Daniel Goleman
• Being able to monitor and regulate ones own and
  others feelings, and to use feelings to guide
  thought and action. Salovey Mayer
• Emotional intelligence involves mastering several
  competencies.

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Competencies for Emotional Intelligence

• Personal Competence
• Self-Awareness
• Emotional awareness
• Accurate self-assessment
• Self-confidence
• Self-Management
• Self-control
• Trustworthiness
• Integrity
• Adaptability
• Achievement drive (Motivation)
• Commitment
• Initiative
• Optimism

• Social Competence
• Social Awareness
• Understanding others (Empathy)
• Service orientation
• Leveraging diversity
• Political awareness
• Relationship Management
• Influence
• Developing others
• Conflict management
• Inspirational Leadership
• Change catalyst
• Building networks
• Collaboration cooperation

(Goleman,et al 2002)
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Intelligent Leadership

• A certain level of IQ, business acumen, and
  thinking skills are prerequisites for leadership
  positions.
• How we manage ourselves, our emotions, our
  relationships, and the emotions of others
  accounts for a large percentage of what
  distinguishes outstanding leaders.

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

• Leader success and emotional
  intelligence go hand in hand.
• Evidence shows that the
  higher the position, the more
  important emotional intelligence.
• All work relationships subordinate,
  peer, superior, customer are improved when
  emotional intelligence competencies are used.

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Leadership Style and EI

• Coercive
• Do what I tell you. Negative impact
• Authoritative
• Come with me. Strong positive impact
• Affiliative
• People come first. Positive impact
• Democratic
• What do you think? Positive impact
• Pacesetting
• Do as I do, now. Negative impact
• Coaching
• Try this. Positive impact

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EI Competencies and Style
Coaching
Authoritative
Affiliative
Coercive Pacesetting
Democratic
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Applying the Model to Other Real Leaders

• Examples from the real world
• Your best boss / leader
• Leaders we are debating
• Practicum supervisors
• Guest speakers
• How do leaders you have interacted with reflect
  these competencies?

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Emotional Intelligence Resources

• Goleman, D (2006) Social Intelligence The new
  science of Human Relationships
• Goleman, Boyatzis McKee (2002) Primal
  Leadership Realizing the power of emotional
  intelligence
• Caruso Salovey (2004) The Emotionally
  Intelligent Manager
• Goleman, D (1997) Emotional Intelligence
• Goleman, D (1998) Working with emotional
  intelligence
• Hay Group Emotional Intelligence Services at
  http//ei.haygroup.com/.

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Leadership Debates

• Choose your own teams of two (one of three).
• Lottery used to pick leaders to focus on.
• Important dates
• April 14th 45-minutes in class to prepare for
  debates
• May 12th Debates take place and summary due.
• Prepare to do research outside of class on each
  leader.
• Basis of research will vary based on leader
  chosen. (i.e. driven by industry, availability,
  etc.).