Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

Leadership Definition

• Leadership is a process where an individual influences a group to achieve a shared goal. This includes inspiring people towards a common vision.

Goleman's Emotional Intelligence (EI)

• Effective leaders demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your emotions, and recognize and influence the emotions of others.

Goleman's Model Domains

• Goleman's model has four domains

Boyatzis & Goleman ESI Competencies

• Self-awareness: Understanding one's own emotions and their effect on performance, including emotional self-awareness and emotional self-control.
• Self-management: Controlling disruptive emotions, achieving goals, maintaining effectiveness in challenging situations, including positive outlook, empathy, adaptability, and achievement orientation.
• Social awareness: Understanding the emotions of others, including organizational awareness, empathy, and relationship management (coaching, mentoring, teamwork, and conflict management).
• Relationship management: Influencing and inspiring others, understanding power relationships, gaining support and fostering growth in others.

Module 2: What Makes a Performant Team Better?

• Teams are units made up of two or more people with some level of interdependency and responsibility for collective work outputs.
• Team Psychological Safety is crucial, which refers to a climate where team members feel free to speak up, acknowledging challenges as learning experiences and modeling curiosity.

Module 3: What Makes Individuals Thrive? Motivation and Vision

• Self-determination theory highlights the needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence as crucial for motivation.
• A continuum of motivation exists from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation, with external regulation, introjected motivation, identification, integration and intrinsic motivation being different stages.
• Vision, as a communication of an inspiring future for a group, plays a role in guiding and motivating individuals towards goals.

Supporting Autonomy

• Empathy and understanding individual motivation are key to supporting autonomy.
• Providing choice, explanations, and avoiding controlling language are important aspects of supporting autonomy.

Supporting Competence

• Provide supportive and informative feedback, praising initiatives and accomplishments over comparing to others, to nurture a sense of competence.

Supporting Relatedness

• Showing care, concern, and acknowledging struggles along the path to growth in a group helps create a warm and supportive environment.

Vision vs. Goals

• Vision communicates a compelling future aspiration, whereas goals are concrete objectives to achieve that vision.
• Vision inspires, while goals guide the steps towards the vision.

Neuroscience Perspective (NEA/PEA)

• The Neuroscience perspective suggests that a positive emotional attractor (PEA) state (positive emotions) is ideal for vision-setting and change processes, while negative emotional attractor (NEA) states (negative emotions) may hinder this.
• It highlights the importance of positive emotional states for effective vision and change management.

This quiz explores key concepts in leadership and Goleman's Emotional Intelligence framework. Understand how emotional intelligence impacts leadership effectiveness, including the essential competencies of self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness. Test your knowledge on these vital leadership skills.