While reading about the Consciousness of Self portion of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for Students, I learned not only about myself, but more about the necessary traits to becoming an effective leader. I learned that to become a strong leader, you must first introspect on yourself and recognize your strengths and weaknesses. It is also important to be able to incorporate these assets and drawbacks into your daily life, any group organizations, and especially in any leadership positions. Detailed down below are the three main concepts that stand out the most for me in leadership.
First and foremost, I would like to discuss the importance of emotional self-control. Being able to be in control of your emotions is a very crucial
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The phrase “to thine own self be true” could never be more applicable than in leadership (Shankman et al 2015). In EIL, the chapter on authenticity started off by discussing how even one event of inauthenticity could shatter the trust in a group and leave a leader scrambling to regain trust. I found this to be a great way to emphasize the importance of being true to your own morals and standards, especially when others are looking up to for guidance and help. Trust is absolutely essential in any group or organization because it “is the backbone of any functioning group” (Shankman et al 2015). Without a group’s trust, a leader cannot provide the functionality necessary to continue running the group. For example, as an RA it is important to gain your coworker’s trust. Without it, there would be tension in the workplace and a lack of community and team building, which is important in any job …show more content…
Self-esteem is always a very challenging capacity to keep in balance because you want to be confident, but you also have to remember to remain humble. Personally, my self-esteem is one of my biggest struggles. I constantly have to remind myself that “it’s really important to love yourself first” because “if you don’t love yourself first, then how can you love anyone else?” (Shankman et al 2015). While I don’t mind being the first person to take action or address an issue, there is always a struggle of second guessing myself. I try to continuously regulate myself, but sometimes I am my worst judge and it can lower my own self esteem. I learned that self-esteem isn’t something that you can achieve and then walk away from. You have to continuously monitor and regulate it. Balancing a healthy self-esteem is important in a leadership role because you want to be confident in your actions because it will make you seem more capable as a person, but you don’t want to become arrogant and make mistakes because of your pride. For example, as an RA you need to be confident because your residents will be coming to you for advice and help in certain circumstances. Being confident with your answers not only helps to reassure them, but it makes them more apt to listen to what you are saying. If you are too confident, however, it will have the complete opposite effect and will cause the
Part of being a leader is being aware of one’s strengths. This includes core strengths and strengths that need to be augmented or developed. At the same time, a leader must be aware of their weaknesses. Identifying one’s strengths and weaknesses can be accomplished through assessments that are completed by self. Strengths and weaknesses can also be recognized through assessments that are completed by others.
This approach emphasize that having a leader with a certain set of traits is crucial to having effective leadership. It’s the leader and the leader’s personality that are central to the leadership process.
Over the past couple of months, we discussed several traits, skills, and behaviors that have contributed to the success of both past and present leaders. Intelligence, integrity, charisma, and confidence are some of the traits that characterize many of these leaders. Interpersonal skills, oratory skills, and conceptual skills are some of the more important skills that helped to shape their leadership style. Some of these skills go hand in hand with the traits that are essential for strong leadership. Meanwhile, the behaviors that drive these leaders include inspiring and motivating others, collaboration, having a strategic perspective and trust. Combined, these traits, skills and behaviors make for effective leadership.
Leadership is a very broad topic; I never knew just how many different traits and skills that it takes to become an effective leader. Some of which I was familiar with, and others that I was not aware of, but now from taking this course, they all seem to be necessary for the role of leadership. The attached paper, will explain of some of the important theories and concepts that I thought were most important to be able to become and effective leader.
“What do effective leaders do to remain effective?” was a question that I proposed to my Leadership Application Program Speakers Round Table Class. In response I received a number of answers from personality traits to emotional intelligence. Leadership is a word that can be defined in many different ways. In the article “Leadership That Gets Results” they take the time and breakdown the six different steps of leadership, the six styles are coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and coaching. The late David McClelland, a noted Harvard University psychologist, found that leaders with strengths in a critical mass of six or more emotional intelligence
It takes a lot to be a leader. It takes experience, communication, positivity, passion, and much more to be an effective leader. Communication, positivity, and passion are the three most important characteristics to me. I represent all three of these with great pride. I communicate effectively whether it be in the classroom, on
For me to be an effective leader, I must first evaluate my strengths. I took the Gallup 2.0 Strength Finder report which showed my strengths in an insight and action planning guide. The results indicated the top five themes for me were input, learner, responsibility, maximizer and arranger. I believe the
Controlling my emotions is vital to my success in building a working therapeutic relationship with a patient. A patient who feels that I may be judging them will become defensive, argumentative and will not want to communicate. Relationship management also helps me to handle situations with family members of patients. Actions of others and events which may have occurred prior to the patient arriving in my care may have upset the patient and family members, which requires me to manage conflicts, improve communications and build a new positive relationship. Additionally, being able to control my reactions to a situation can provide coworkers, patients and family members with a sense of direction and help them to remain calm in tense
According to Sullivan and Decker (2009), leadership is influencing others into working toward accomplishing a common goal. Some people are born with an innate leadership quality within them. Others require learning leadership and management skills. It takes a certain personality trait that makes them a natural leader. Intelligence, personality, and abilities are three categories of the trait theory that is a part of the profile of successful leaders (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). I will discuss my personal views of leadership. It will
In my reflections as I prepared to write this paper, I came to the realization that leadership is much more complex especially since the paper requires that I focus on a few traits. In an effort to make it simple, I wrote down the traits that came to mind and in process had over 10 important traits but an even bigger challenge was on how to narrow them down to 3 or 4 and this is the place that required a good deal of reflection. Eventually, however, I had to prioritize them since in any case; it is not possible to get a leader that has all the traits. As I thought of the various leaders who have inspired me, I noticed that while they strived to provide the best leadership by focusing on their strong points, they still had their weaknesses. To me this provided a justification for at least identifying key desirable traits and thereafter working to improve them. I did manage to settle on four traits, which for me are indispensible if a leader or a leadership is to become effective.
Confidence, communication and commitment are just three of many traits that a leader possesses. Having those traits may help you become a leader but continuous hard work and dedication makes you one. To continue to be a leader you must also be intelligent, courageous, and determined. Becoming a leader is difficult but continuing to be one is even more difficult.
A leader needs to “believe” in oneself and have the confidence that whatever you say will excite and what you do can motivate others. You must be optimistic about what you do, do have some relevance for being in existence. Believe it or not, “leadership begins with you”.
Leaders today are presented with an ever-increasing reliance on unifying a team or organization to achieve goals and objectives. With this demand for higher-level leaders, the ability through which a leader is able to appeal to specific traits and qualities is never more important. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is one area of focus that a leader in the marketplace today must be able to appeal to and demonstrate as a core competency.
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership It was Daniel Goleman who first brought the term “emotional intelligence” to a wide audience with his 1995 book of that name, and it was Goleman who first applied the concept to business with his 1998 HBR article, reprinted here. In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that while the qualities traditionally associated with leadership—such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision—are required for success, they are insufficient. Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. These qualities may sound
Before one can lead others, they must learn to lead themselves. The first step to developing your leadership abilities is identifying your strengths and weaknesses. A few of my personal strengths are, integrity, problem solving, and vision. Some of my weaknesses are priorities, decision making, and most importantly, influence.