Emotional Intelligence: Four Domains and Definition

Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence: recognizing, understanding, managing, and expressing one's own emotions, and interacting with others by understanding and managing their emotions.
• Four domains: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management.
• Self-Awareness: emotional self-awareness.
• Self-Management: emotional self-control, adaptability, achievement orientation, and positive outlook.
• Social Awareness: empathy, organizational awareness.
• Relationship Management: influence, coach and mentor, conflict management, teamwork, and inspirational leadership.

Leadership

• Leadership means finding a new direction, not simply following the crowd.
• Importance of solitude, introspection, focused concentration, sustained reading, and friendship in leadership.
• Critical thinking and self-authorship are essential for leaders.
• A true leader is one who thinks for themselves and has their own reality.

Implicit Bias

• Implicit Bias: unconscious attitudes, prejudices, and judgments about people or groups.
• Influences of Implicit Bias: family, friends, teachers, media, and personal experience.
• Definition of Anti-Racist Leadership: not specified.

Leadership Theories

Great Man Theory

• "Leaders are born, not made."
• Focuses on hereditary properties and divine inspiration.
• Effective leaders are those with "right" characteristics, such as intelligence, sociability, confidence, and charisma.

Trait Theories

• Leaders are endowed with particular characteristics, such as intelligence, height, and self-confidence.
• Research failed to produce a comprehensive list of traits.

Behavioral Theories

• "Leaders are made, not born."
• Focuses on what leaders do, behaviors, skills, and styles.
• Ohio State Model: task-oriented, and Michigan Model: relationship-oriented.

Situational Theories

• Leaders should vary their approach based on the situation.
• Path Goal Theory: high productivity perceived as the easy path to attain personal goals.
• Depends on followers' level of competence and motivation.

Reciprocal Leadership

• Since the 1970s, focuses on the relational and reciprocal nature of leadership.
• Leadership is a process that meaningfully engages followers and leaders.
• Participants are transformed into leaders themselves.

Other Theories

• Transformative Leadership and Transactional Leadership are mentioned, but not elaborated.