Emotional Intelligence: The Next Competency in Leadership

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Emotional Intelligence The Next Competency in
Leadership

• Dennis Ondrejka, Ph.D., RN, COHN-S/CM
• Associate Professor
• Denver School of Nursing, Denver, CO
• goalquestinc_at_comast.net

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Objectives

• Develop understanding for what is meant by EI and
  why it is a critical competency for current and
  future leaders
• Provide the participants an opportunity to
  practice the development of EI
• Explore and examine an experiential awareness for
  the five EI domains

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Subjectives

• Internalize a sense of value for EI as a
  professional competency
• Become more aware of how it works and doesnt
  work in ones life
• Have some awareness of why resistance presents
  itself related to EI

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Attributes of EI

• The presenter needs to be more upfront about
  his/her beliefs for the group
• It is difficult to facilitate such learning
  because many systems are in place to keep if from
  occurring easily
• There is risk for the instructor
• Barriers will appear that are powerful and come
  from a persons inner security.

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Definitions of EI

• (1998) EI is the capacity for recognizing our own
  feelings and those of others, for motivating
  ourselves, and for managing emotions well in us
  and in our relationships
• Goleman

• (1999) EI is observed when a person demonstrates
  the competencies that constitute self-awareness,
  self-management, social awareness, and social
  skills at appropriate times and ways in
  sufficient frequency to be effective in
  situations.
• Boyatzis, Goleman, and Rhee

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Domains of EI Past and Present

• 1995-1998
• Knowing Your Emotions
• Managing Your Emotions
• Recognizing Emotions in Others
• Handling Relationships
• Motivating Oneself

• 1999 to present
• Self-awareness
• Self-regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills

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Why EI is Important

• Rigidity and Poor Relationship building is the
  key executive failure
• Trained incapacity
• Need Intuition to be expert
• IQ accounts for 4 of real world success
• Physiological issues
• It accounts for highly successful leaders

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Barriers to Integrating EI

• Habits
• Fear
• Low Levels of self-love
• Physiological barriers
• Rejecting the Idea that one can calibrate
  emotions
• Never reaching the valuing level of understand of
  EI
• No subconscious integration

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Increasing Self-Awareness
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Self-Regulation Self-control Adaptability
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Motivaton of Self (CxE) - (TxF) M
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Hidden Motivation Issues
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Empathy
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Social Skills